The HP Officejet Pro 8500 is one of the best office inkjet alternatives for under $350. Being feature packed, small businesses may be tempted to try this over the latest expensive laser printer.

The FS-2020D puts in another excellent display for a business laser printer that swept all our printing awards and catagories. It dosn't get much better than this Kyocera printing marvel.

Output quality is an undoubted strength, as are its looks, but most businesses will find the lack of capacity annoying.

Superb quality, packed with features and cheap to run. A worthy alternative to the Kyocera.

Impressive print quality, a good turn of speed and decent features, but it simply costs too much to own.

Yet another solid HP laser, but it’s beaten by ?rivals in virtually every key area.

Ignore the price – incredibly low running costs Make this a winner.

The Xerox Phaser 3125N isn’t much to look at, with a design not unlike business lasers from the early nineties. Unlike its ancestors, however, it’s only a fraction of the size and significantly more powerful.

A compact workgroup laser suited to high-volume colour and mono printing, but delivering average photo quality

Top colour speeds are only achievable in draft mode, but output quality is quite remarkable

Very compact and incredibly cheap for an A3 all-in-one, but speed and print quality are only average

A great printer for the road with a microscopic footprint, but average performance holds it back from greatness.

Lacklustre colour quality, but good speed and value for money make the K8600 a contender if you like blowing things up to A3 size

Quality, speed and a huge array of features go some way to justifying the price

Plenty of features, but printing and scanning results proved average at best

Interesting design and plenty of features, but it takes an age to produce mediocre results

It’s not quite an office grade product, but the MFC-7840W is a great choice for a busy home office.

A tiny, fast personal laser printer with a temping price and great quality.

Fast colour output, great network tools and reasonable print quality

Top-notch print quality makes this a contender, but it isn’t fast