The Pixma iP5200 costs just £50 and you get a lot for your money. While it doesn't have memory card slots or an LCD display, it does have both a feed tray and a cartridge, so you can load plain and photo paper simultaneously

The Xerox Phaser 6120 looks strikingly familiar to its rival, the Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450. The only difference is the deep blue top plate and lack of front-mounted USB port on the Xerox machine.

While the design isn't the be all and end all, it's the performance that makes up for the lack of style. The Intelliprint 8008N certainly makes an immediate impression.

Samsung CLP-510 is a rather large beast, so if you have workspace issues it's worth taking a closer look at how much square footage thisprinter swallows up before you buy. It also doesn't perform quite how you'd expect.

The Lexmark has nearly everything going for it; with fast output and high quality prints the C522n is a very capable machine. The price is a little high for a budget machine, but the performance more than makes up for this.

Konica Minolta has been producing top-notch laser printers longer than many people realise. The Magicolor 2450 is the company's low-end offering but it has a good range of features, including a 600x600dpi print engine and 128MB of RAM.

The HP Color LaserJet 2605dn may seem a little expensive, but it's got the specifications to back it up. A 600x600dpi print engine lies underneath the bonnet of this solid, attractive machine, and both duplex printing and Ethernet are supplied as standard.

Epson has a long history of producing some of the best workhorse lasers in the business, and the AcuLaser C1100 is no exception. From the moment you unpack it, you can tell you're dealing with a well-built machine.

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

The 'joy' of typing details from business cards into your PC after business appointments is a chore that the OptiCard 820 aims to take off your hands, automating the process with OCR scanning technology.

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.

Efficient document scanning is achieved by both elements of hardware and software. The software component of IRIS's latest scanning equation comes in the tried and trusted shape of Readiris Pro 9, which we'll come to later, but first the hardware

The IRIScan - and its accompanying Readiris 9 software - looks like agood prospect on paper. The handheld scanner is small and light enoughto slide into a laptop bag and is designed for scanning on the move.

The 4890's 4,800x9,600dpi resolution and multiple-format film scanningabilities mean you're getting high-end specs at a mid-range price tag.But do these specs translate into performance?

The answer to the question above is no. The ScanSnap's really designedfor multipage scanning, anyway. You stack your sheets up in the ADFfeed (up to 50 sheets of 80gsm paper), press the button and stand back.

The 3590 Photo isn't Epson's cheapest scanner. Indeed, the nearidentical 3490 is £20 cheaper. However, the 3590 has an extra featurethat marks it out as something special - its automatic filmstriploading.

The flagship of the Canon scanner range takes on Epson's Perfection4990 head to head. The CanoScan 9950F includes a Super Toric lens tocounter the aberrations introduced by conventional, spherical, scannerlenses...