Printers just get smaller all the time, this handheld printer from ZINK prints a nice 2×3 picture while your out and about. Basically the printer is about the size of an average mobile phone and print off pictures using a specialised piece of paper.

The picture is created by heating up and putting varying amounts of pressure on the polymer paper. With no liquid ink needed you also avoid the mess of leaking ink.Pricing is expected to be around $99 for the printer and around $19.95 for a 100 pack of paper.

The printer in still in testing at the moment but ZINK could be onto a winner here.

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The Canon PIXMA MP160 is a very good basic no-compromise all-In-One photo printer. With an impressive array of accessories packet into the box - These include: easy to use software, a one year warranty, 2 ink cartridges for immediate installation (1 black and 1 colour), two additional cartridges (one black and one colour) and Canon Photo Paper Pro; 15 sheets of 8.5×11 and a packet of 20 sheets of 4×6.

it’s a bargain for a machine that prints, scans, and copies, especially given its surprisingly good print quality, and don’t expect much from the scan quality.

The MP160 has a PictBridge port on the front of the printer which lets you print photos directly from a PictBridge-compatible digital camera or a digital video camera but the lack of an LCD might be an issue.

The printer is a good All-In-One but you get what you pay for: Simple, Basic, Cheap. If your on a budget this might be for you but you do missout on some features that are available on photo printers within $20-30.

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If you looking for a laser-based multi-function machine take a quick look at the Panasonic KX-FLB851E, this is ideal for mono printing copying and faxing and colour scanning. With three output bins (which you don’t see often) this can really help separate out its key office functions.

It’s amid at the heavy user and kind of look like your traditional office photocopier than a multifunction device, which makes it robust. The control panel lies along its long side and its 250-sheet paper tray also opens from the side, so you stack paper into it landscape fashion, rather than portrait.

If you require a second tray this brings the sheet capacity to 750.

Overall this is a robust and serviceable office multifunction machine, maybe you’ll find printers from rival manufacturers for a cheaper price.

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The Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 966 is a 4-in-1 with printing, scanning, and stand-alone faxing and copying in one compact unit, it’s a little boxy at 18 inches wide, 20 inches deep, and 10.6 inches tall, and weighs about 22 pounds but can print up to 31 pages per minute1 in monochrome and 23 pages per minute1 in colour.

On the photo printing you can print borderless photos up to A4 size directly from a digital camera or memory card, if needed you can print directly from your camera with the built-in PictBridge connection. Simply insert your memory card into the built-in memory card slots and you can browse, edit and print directly from the 2.4″ colour LCD screen on the printer.

Full-Colour Scanning with optical resolution max. 1200 x 4800 dpi, 48-bit colour depth. Dell recommends using the flatbed scanner for scanning photos, even if you have multiples, so it offers a “scan multiple items before output” option that lets you scan a whole pile of documents before they’re printed en masse.

Print speed:
Up to 31 A4 pages per minute (ppm) black or 23 A4 ppm colour

Print resolution:
Up to 4800 x 1200 dots per inch (dpi) maximum

Borderless printing:
Up to A4

Memory card slots:
CompactFlash® I & II, Microdrive, Multi Media Card, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo (with customer supplied adaptor), xD, (certified up to 1GB) MiniSD (with customer supplied adaptor)

Onboard Memory:
32 MB

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ITReviews reviews the HP Photosmart C5180 and writes, “HP’s all-in-ones continue to march on, yet this generally impressive machine has some surprising omissions that might make you think twice before buying similar models at a comparable price.”

“HP claims the C5180 has ‘the world’s fastest photo printing speeds’, with 15 x 10cm (6 x 4-inch) images at ‘best’ quality in 12 seconds, documents at 32ppm in mono and 31ppm in colour. In practice the 15 x 10cm photos averaged around 20 seconds and typical text documents reached 10ppm, which is still admirable. … The lack of PictBridge capability allied to the faded quality of scanned documents and off-colour scanned photos make this a disappointing addition to the usually exemplary Photosmart series, although you will still have fast reproductions and excellent prints from memory cards.”

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If you looking for a low-cost colour laser printer maybe the Samsung CLP-300 could be just perfect for you. With 150-sheet multipurpose tray projecting from the bottom of the front panel.Printed pages feed out to the indented top surface and a fold-out paper support is needed to stop pages sliding off the front.

Over at trustedreviews.com they said “Samsung quotes 4ppm for colour print and our five-page, mixed text and colour graphics document took 1 minute 27 seconds. This equates to 3.45ppm, probably the closest to a published figure we’ve seen this year. The 15 x 10cm photo image took 33 seconds, making this just under 2ppm, including rasterising time.”

* Print Speed: 17 ppm Black, 4 ppm Color
* Resolution: Up to 2400 x 600 dpi
* Paper Handling: 150 Sheet Input Capacity Consists of:
1 x 150 Sheet Semi-Cassette Tray
* Memory: 32 MB
* Connectivity: USB
* Environments: PC, Mac, and Linux Compatible

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The HP OfficeJet 6310 All-in-One is prefect for the small off as it comes with fax, built-in networking, and an automatic document feeder (ADF). The 6310 can be used as a stand-alone printer via USB if required, there are two USB 2.0 ports for those digital cameras with PictBridge mode. Video captures can be printed as long as the image files include JPEG, TIFF, MPEG-1, AVI and Quicktime. If your still or video camera doesn’t support these file types or memory cards, then you can save them to your computer first and then convert them using the supplied HP Photosmart software, which is the principal software for all scanning jobs.

The faxes are scanned on the flatbed scanner or via the ADF, faxes can be sent at a rate of 3ppm and up to eight received faxes can be stored in memory.

The print speeds are 30ppm (pages per minute) for monochrome and 24ppm for colour, with a maximum resolution of 4,800dpi.

One review on cnet.com says ” Buyer Beware. You have to own it to suffer how very poor it is. I bought it from HP and got a three year warranty. I am truly feeling cheated! I WILL BE my last HP printer, or product for that matter.”

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The Canon Pixma MP600 can print, scan, work as a standalone copier and also scan to e-mail. This is a neat printer with a 2.5-inch color LCD for previewing photos, card slots for printing directly from memory cards. The Paper handling is one of the MP600’s strengths it comes with built-in duplexing and two 150-sheet paper trays but this feature can be a bit slow to use, there’s also a CD/DVD carrier, which feeds from the front, so you can directly print coated disc blanks.

Type: All-In-One
Color or Monochrome: 1-pass color
Ink Jet Type: Photo All-Purpose
Connection Type: USB
Maximum Standard Paper Size: Legal
Number of Cartridges: 5
Number of Ink Colors: 4
Direct Printing from Cameras: Yes
Direct Printing from Media Slots: CompactFlash Type I, CompactFlash Type II, Microdrive, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, Secure Digital, MultiMedia Card, xD-Picture Card, MiniSD Card
LCD Preview Screen: Yes
Scanner Type: Flatbed
Scanner Optical Resolution: 2400 pixels per inch
Input Capacity: 300 sheets
Duplexing: Yes

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One of the features of the Samsung ML-2510 is its compact size coming in at 354 x 297 x 246 mm (13.9 x 11.7 x 9.7 inch). This small compact printer can print an impressive 24 PPM for A4 and 25 PPM for letter size.

The guys over at pcauthority.com ran some tests and say “On the plus side, the ML-2510 is exceptionally easy to take care of. The only removable part is the combined toner and drum, which means replacing a toner cartridge is a job that will take less than a minute. The cartridge itself will cost $100 and will print 3000 pages, although the starter cartridge supplied only runs to a decidedly stingy 1000 pages.”

One of the things missing from the ML 2510 is a network port (Ethernet port) this may not affect basic users but for some more advanced user with networks at home is might be an issue.

Overall this is a smashing little printer with an impressive printing speed.

The Canon Pixma iP6700D is not a compact printer coming in at 7.5kg and measuring 429mm by 304mm by 183mm. With the front paper tray extended, you can add about another 8 inches to its depth, however this is not a bad looking printer and has a nice design.

The built-in card reader which is on the right-hand side at the front, allows you to print photos from a memory card without a computer just under this you’ll find an IrDA sensor for printing photos from a mobile phone or other IrDA-compatible device, and a USB port for Pictbridge direct printing as well as printing from a USB flash-memory device.

Some of the features are almost identical to the older iP6600D model and according to Canon, the biggest difference is that photo contact sheets can now accommodate as many as 35 images you’ll also find a few more editing options when printing without a computer.

Pixma iP6700D Features:

* 6-color photo ink system, individually replaceable tanks for economy
* Canon’s ChromaLife100 inks can resist fading for up to 100 years
* Dual paper paths with top and bottom trays, auto paper switching
* Two-sided printing with built-in duplexer
* 1-picoliter MicroFine ink drops with 9600 x 2400 dpi resolution
* Borderless printing in 4 x 6″, 5 x 7″ and letter sizes
* Computer-free printing from most digital camera flash cards
* 3.5-inch tiltable color LCD for preview and editing
* Direct print from CompactFlash  SmartMedia, SD, MMC, Memory Stick and Memory Stick PRO memory cards
* USB 2.0 high-speed interface (Windows XP, 2000 or Mac OS X)
* PictBridge Direct USB printing from most modern digicams
* Infrared wireless JPEG printing from compatible cellphones