The Kodak EasyShare 5500 All-in-One printer makes an desperate effort to do everything, but in its urge to accomplish everything the $300 All-in-One printer falls short on doing any one thing exceedingly well. Some features of the printers are so well complicated that using them can be exercise as well as frustration, some other features of the phone like photo editing, is utterly lacking and in its place, to use Kodak’s software you will have to turn on your PC. In addition, the print speed of this printer is slow, although the print quality offered is satisfactory. But still we would love to mention that there are better multifunction printers than this to match the diversified needs of modern consumers. Like if you want an all-in-one printer for complete office use ( with an automatic  [...]

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The Canon Pixma PRO9000 photo printer targets the people who are use to clicking plenty of photos at home and are use to taking large prints of those photos. And with the increasing number of digital cameras offering great quality photos for large prints, the demand printers capable of doing it in increasing tremendously. So unlike the printers which are capable of printing documents and Web pages and targeting offices, the Pixma Pro9000 is meant for people wanting to print huge photos at home. Though the Pixma Pro9000 has Pixma Pro in its name, but the Pro9000 here has replaced the Canon i9900, which also was an eight-ink dye-based printer like this one. If you are interested in pigment based ink, then there also is Pixma Pro 9500 from Canon, but it uses a pigment-based  [...]

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The Brother MFC-9440CN is a superb color laser multi-function printer for the small work groups and offices. The MFC-9440CN is fast, delivers great quality scan/prints and the huge feature set for the printer are admirable. But it’s not without its share of flaws, but most of the shortcomings that we found for this printer are pretty small. The fact that the MFC-9440CN carries out all the functions it is assigned pretty well puts the printer ahead of the Xerox Phaser 6115MFP and the Lexmark X502n, in our list of preferred standard office printers. If you are looking for enormously high quality prints, then you can go for the HP Color LaserJet CM1017. Though, you have to bear its slow print speeds, but this is not the case with MFC-9440CN and even though the quality is not that high, but  [...]

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The HP Photosmart D7460 Printer offers a generous feature set, at a really respectable price. Just for $180, you get a network-ready printer (wireless as well!) with an immensely handy touchscreen which makes navigating through menu a really smooth maneuver. Although on a whole we liked the printer pretty much, but the performance of the system stops us from recommending this system to any of our readers. Though, the printer delivered text prints at really decent pace, but the scenario changed drastically with the 4 x 6 photo prints, and we think the printer definitely needs some tweaking in that section. Although for the casual home use and need the Photosmart D7460 is pretty decent printer. The Photosmart D7460 will match the requirement of casual home printer who wants  [...]

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At first glance the Oki B2520 MFP seems like a convincing package, delivering all the essential features that you can associate with a multifunction laser printer like print, scan fax and copy and all that at surprising low prices. Although, don’t get lured by the promises made here or what impression this printer give to you, this is because the user interface of the printer is really clunky, the user guide for the system is confusing, the print speeds are slow, and scan and print quality delivered by the system are really disappointing. Although, we must mention the fact that the Oki B2520 MFP priced at $320 does have some interesting features like a QWERTY keyboard and mailboxes, for small offices. But at the same time the printer is not network-ready that means if  [...]

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The Canon Pixma MX300 is the entry level, office oriented all-in-one inkjet printer from Canon. Priced at $100, we don’t expect that much from MX300, especially in terms of performance, but we are pleasantly surprised  that even though the printer is not the fastest all-in-one printer in $100 range that we’ve tested, but it makes up for its slow speed with its high quality scans and prints. But the Pixma MX300 is not network ready, and hence this is not the right printer choice for the people buying printers for their militiaperson office, and to make it even worse for the printer, it doesn’t have an ADF, which means the batch copies, faxes and scans surely will be a laborious task. So, if you want an ADF its better that you get the Lexmark X5470, and if the network-ready all-in-one  [...]

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The Canon Pixma MP210 priced at $80 is one of the lowest-priced models in Canon's all-in-one inkjet printer line up. The Pixma MP210 lacks the feature set that will make it either a good office-oriented printer or a respectable photo-oriented, so the Pixma MP210 is just fine for light and normal workloads. The printer also lacks a lot of features, which you can find in the similarly priced all-in-ones, advanced scan and copy options, a memory card slots, and e-fax capability are some of the features that we are talking about. The Pixma MP210 also is not the fastest all-in-one in the rack, but it does offer respectable task quality. But if a feature-packed fully loaded all-in-one printer is what you are looking for then this is not the right choice for you, but at the same time if you want  [...]

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The HP Photosmart A826 is a snapshot printer, which tries to bring the in-store photo booth experience to your home, and the good news is that this standalone printer succeeds in doing so. The huge size and extra large touch screen of the printer makes using the printer pleasurable. And the wide assortment of feature set and its fast print speed enables the printer to generate a wide range of prints. The only thing that stops us from recommending this printer is its steep-high price of $250. The printer will be a great option for anyone who has the tendency of clicking plethora of pictures, and taking prints of them. This is what brings us to the conclusion that this printer will be perfect for the people who organizes plenty of parties and who are professional photographers. The thing that  [...]

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The Canon Pixma MP520 is the refurbishment of Canon’s previous year’s Pixma MP510. The feature and price almost remains the same for MP520, but the other specifications of Pixma MP520 showed significant speed upgrading. We won’t say that this is the fastest printer to step in our labs, but surely the Pixma MP520 delivered comparable speeds. Also there was noticeable improvement in the print quality of MP520. As a matter of fact in comparison to all-in-one printers we’ve tested the Canon Pixma MP520 topped the cart in terms of task quality and performance. So, if you are in need of the imposing all-in-one printer in the range of $150, then we strictly will recommend Pixma MP520 to you. Though like all the other all-in-one printers the Pixma MP520 too has its own limitations and the  [...]

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The HP PhotoSmart A526 belongs to the snapshot line of printer from HP. We have appreciated its precursor the Photosmart A826, which also belonged to the same line, but as the A526 is expected to be a scaled down variant of A826 we already had our share of excitement for this. But sadly, the A526 was scaled down too much and even its $100 price looked too high to us. As a matter of fact when we compared it to some of its competitors, we found that the printer actually doesn’t have many of the features that its competitors have and is way behind its likewise priced competition. It also is way slower than the competition and the print quality for the photos printed on the same printer was even lower than those printed on Canon Selphy CP740. So it becomes pretty clear that the HP  [...]

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The Epson PictureMate Dash PM260 is the low end offering from Epson’s PictureMate snapshot printer line’s refreshment. Priced at $100 the PictureMate Dash PM260 actually is $50 cheaper than the Epson’s 2006 low-end offering and is slightly faster in booting. The printer initially impressed us to extreme heights with its features, ease to use, and the results from the speed test with other $100 printers at our lab. But the excitement didn’t last long and the picture quality was really disappointing. But if you want maximum features in a single printer, then this is one printer that you can get, but at the same time keep yo ur quality expectations aside. But if you don’t want to compromise with quality, and are ready to spend a little extra on your printer shopping, then we would  [...]

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The HP Photosmart C6280 All-in-one printer differs from all the other printers of its class. This is because despite being the member of HP's customer Photosmart line, the Photosmart C6280 all-in-one inkjet printer brings features that are frequently associated with office multifunction printer. This $200 Photosmart C6280, comes with networking and an en suite duplexer. At the same time the Photosmart C6280 lacks a vital photo-oriented feature i.e. the PictBridge port. Some other features and things that we found were missing from this printer were immense image quality and easily navigable menus. This is the reason why for our $200, we would go for the Canon Pixma MP600 and the reason being the fact that it is fast in general and produces pretty high-quality prints, it also has a better  [...]

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The HP D5360 Photosmart Printer intends to be a convincing option for an inexpensive single function photo printer. But its feature set is just not enough to justify its intentions. One such feature missing from the printer is the lack of option to edit the photos straight from the memory card; any editing you intend to do should be done using your PC. And while the printer does offer certain interesting features that have never been seen on a printer priced at $100, for example auto duplexer and a CD/DVD printer, it's just not enough. You can get much better than this in the same amount, like the $100 Canon Pixma MP470, which is a multifunction printer and lets you scan, print, copy and can print from both the memory cards and from PictBridge. Also it offers plethora of onboard  [...]

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