Canon has been missing in action from the Mac-compatible colour laser market for the last few years, so it's good to see the company back in the game with this, the LaserShot LBP5000

More renowned for its mobile phones, Sagem has just launched a like-minded photo printer onto the market.

Photo printers can be a real pain when it comes to ink cartridges, with up to nine different individual cartridges to change in some of today's top models. By contrast, the Lexmark X3480 uses a single cartridge...

Unlike Lexmark's inkjet printers, which are typically a bit on the flimsy side, the C500n is really 'built'. It looks every inch a heavy-duty office item and Lexmark accordingly recommends a two-person lift to extract its 29kg of bulk from the shipping box

The HP 8750 is a large format printer that promises commercial quality photographs good enough to sell or even "exhibit in a gallery",according to HP's literature. After testing it, we found it does indeed produce excellent prints

Colour laser printers have recently become much more affordable. Yet compared with inkjets and mono lasers, they're typically bulky, heavy and noisy. Konica Minolta's brand new magicolor 2480 MF is certainly a sizeable beast...

The new 3050 is solidly put together and attractive, for a LaserJet at least. Compared with the Konica Minolta 2480 MF multi-function laser printer, the 3050 is slightly smaller but only a third of the weight, making it easier to move around.

Canon has been aggressively trying to force its way into the printer market space more usually associated with Epson: this new A3 printer seems to be part of the Canon masterplan to cover all the bases.

Lexmark is a solid brand for monochrome laser printers, and this model looks like it's been built for warfare. That feel continues throughout the machine, with great engineering and performance

The DS810 sits at the top end of Canon's mini lab range, and with goodreason. It's the only Selphy to have a pop-up colour LCD, which isessential for easy photo cropping and colour changes.

A newcomer into the photo printing sector, Samsung has recentlylaunched two compact photo printers based on dye-sub technology, ofwhich the SPP-2040 is the more up-market.

The Lexmark P450 is distinguished from the rest of the group because itcomes with a built-in CD writer, which Lexmark is parading as anindustry first. That's true to a certain extent

Essentially, the PictureMate 500 carries on from where the PictureMateleft off in our June 2005 test. Epson has added in a few much neededextras, like a colour LCD and a battery for mobile use

This mighty beast from Canon literally puts some MFDs in the shade,being about twice the size of some of the more compact models on themarket. It's more than worth every square centimetre of space though.

This mighty beast from Canon literally puts some MFDs in the shade,being about twice the size of some of the more compact models on themarket. It's more than worth every square centimetre of space though.

Available for under £350, this powerful and flexible budget laserprinter proves that cheap needn't mean nasty. While its wrestler's bulkwill clash with your chic Mac setup...

Laser printers are the best option for small organisations that wantspeedy prints, low running costs and efficiency in the workplace.Theyare cheaper, faster and cleaner to run than inkjets, though obviously you pay more ...

Out of all the printers in our test, this package from HP easily offersthe most value for money. For just £150, you get an above-averageprinter with a battery, and a 5.2-megapixel digital camera.

The new Photosmart 8250 breaks HP's tradition by offering a single ink system, with replaceable ink tanks for each of the six colours. Even though the 8250 uses the same Vivera inks as other new HP printers, the running costs work out very cheap

In an era where outstanding inkjet printers are available for around£150, how do you make something as dullsounding as a black and whitelaser printer sound sexy?

Epson already produces a good range of sub-£150 photo printers thatprint on the standard 10x15cm high street photo size, and scale frompassport shots to panoramas.Considering that most people print their shots on this standard size

Canon, Epson and HP aren't the only players around in the photo printing market. The Lexmark P6350 all-in-one meets them head-on with a very similar set of features.

How many times have you complained that what you see on your Mac's monitor isn't what comes out on your printer, in terms of colour? That's all of us. Now that digital photography is such a popular hobby

With more than a subtle clue in the model name, Epson's R1800 isbasically a scaled-up version of its R800 printer, for A3 printing.Internet bargain-hunting aside, however, the R1800 is barely much moreexpensive than Canon's iP8500D