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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The Lexmark E352dn has a built-in duplexer which delivers very fast prints, great print quality, expandable paper handling and memory. It’s a mono laser printer and ideal when most of the output will be text.

If you looking for something for a high-end personal or small workgroup laser printer the e352dn is ideal when most of the output will be text only.

The E350d is very compact printer, measuring 14 inches wide by 15.6 inches deep by 10.2 inches tall. It’s not really a heavy printer and comes in at 25 pounds so if you need to move it you wont kill yourself. On the front of the printer you’ll fine the control panel which simple, with just a two-line text LCD, a Cancel button, and five buttons to navigate the onscreen Menu. The Menu is quit basic with no frills but it’s easy to use.

The built-in duplexer lets you make automatic double-sided prints, which can help if your on a paper budget.

Overall the E352dn is reasonably inexpensive to run and prints more quickly than many other printers in its category. The built-in duplex facility is a useful extra and the printer is quiet and unobtrusive in use. A good partner in a busy office.

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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

The Epson Stylus DX6000 comes in a stylish black and silver tone, height and width (463 x 354 x 181mm) and 6.5kg, with front-loading digital camera memory card slots (supporting CF Type II, Memory Stick, SD/MMC and xD-Picture card) with PictBridge support and a USB 2.0 slot above for direct printing.

The print resolution is 5,760 x 1,440 optimised dpi (dots per inch) but the print and copy speeds have significantly improved over older models as 27ppm for black text (as opposed to 20ppm) and 28 seconds for 10 x 15cm (6 x 4-inch) photos instead of 81 seconds.

Epson have added a 2-inch colour LCD viewer so you can preview your photos before you print them (always a nice feature).

The Brother MFC-820cw comes with a 2.5-inch flip-up color LCD display and support for wired or wireless network printing, this is an all-in-one printer and is certainly a very neat design and good looking printer.

With up to 6000 x 1200 dpi the MFC-820cw allows you to print sharp photos on glossy paper, and if you want borderless photo printing this is also supported.

On the networking side the printer supports 802.11 b/g networking so you can place it anywhere and use it wire-free, if you dont have wireless dont worry it also allows USB 2.0 connection is also provided for directly connecting the unit to a computer.

The 16 MB of built-in memory lets you store up to 480 pages in memory when faxing which should cover most small companies. The four ink cartridges are the only consumable cost on this machine.

* Color Inkjet Technology
* Max Black Print Speed 20ppm Black
* Max Color Print Speed 15ppm Color
* Borderless Printing
* 16MB Memory
* USB, Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wireless Interfaces