An all-in-one printer for under £55 has a head-start in the value stakes before the flag drops. Brother has a range of them and the MFC-150C appears to have a good specification for the home or smaller SOHO customer. But as we know when looking at printers, specs rarely tell the whole story.

Like many of Brother's other all-in-ones, this squat box with its gently sloping top panel looks more like a fax machine than a printer. Coloured in cream and pale grey, it does its best to look like this year's model, but is hampered by actually looking like previous models from at least the last three years.

Its all-plastic, slide-in paper tray takes up to 100 sheets of plain A4 paper, though you have to remove this to print photos, using the same tray to take A4 or 15 x 10cm photo blanks. The tray slides well into the depths of the machine, so there's little tray projecting from the front, other than a pull-out paper stop.

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Canon U.S.A. on Tuesday introduced two new All-In-One (AIO) models to its lineup of inkjet printers — the Pixma MX860 and the Pixma MX330. The new printers are coming in March and are priced at $199.99 and $109.99 respectively.

Pixma MX860 sports auto-duplex (two-sided) copying, printing and two-way paper feeding, so you can copy and scan two-sided documents without having to re-feed it in the 35-page auto document feeder. It can scan and print simultaneously. The device also sports Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) connectivity and an Ethernet network interface.

Other features include 2400 x 4800 dot per inch (DPI) scanning capability, 1 picoliter droplet size, 9600 x 2400 color dpi output resolution, 5 individual ink tanks, a built-in Super G3 fax, PictBridge compatibility, a 2.5-inch LCD and optional Bluetooth connectivity.

The Pixma MX330 sports 4800 x 1200 color dpi output rsolution with 2 picoliter droplet size, built-in 30-sheet auto document feeder, Super G3 fax, 1.8-inch LCD display, PictBridge and optional Bluetooth support.

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Samsung introduced today for those in small and home offices a new mono-laser multi-functional printer. It is called the SCX-4826FN and it prices around $430.

The Samsung SCX-4826FN is a four-in-one product which offers print, copy, scan and fax features in a compact footprint. It is designed with a LED display that offers quick access to a variety of functions. Samsung says it is available now.

Other features of the SCX-4826FN include the ability to scan and print directly to and from a USB flash drive, network-ready connectivity, an optional 250 sheet cassette and up to 50,000 pages a month at speeds up to 30 pages per minute.

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Ricoh Americas Corporation, the leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced the launch of the Aficio MP C2030 color multifunction product (MFP). Designed for first-time color MFP buyers, the MP C2030 produces outstanding black and white documents while adding affordable, yet eye-catching, color when they need it most. Built off the award-winning MP C2050/ C2550 that was released in December 2008 and received a "Highly Recommended" rating and Certificate of Reliability from Buyers Laboratory, the MP C2030 offers standard TWAIN scanning, Super G3 Faxing, LAN Faxing and Network Printing for Windows Environments.

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It takes around 10 minutes to setup the extremely stylish-looking PX700W, once it’s freed from its box; following the step-by-step approach to set-up makes it very easy to do and follow, making getting the thing going and connected very user friendly indeed. Although the plethora of buttons on the front that form the main control panel is a tad daunting at first.

Once up and running the PX700W has a basket full of features within its squared-off shiny-looking bodywork, so there’s plenty for you to play with, including Wi-Fi support for wireless, borderless A4 printing and individual ink tanks for more economical output as you need only replace the colour ink that has run out.

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OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today announces the launch of the MC860 A3 color multifunction printer (MFP) Series. The Series is the first in its class to deliver A3, wide-format color MFP functionality with flexible media handling and High-Definition (HD) color output, at an affordable price and compact size1. This Series redefines the medium workgroup A3 color MFP market by enhancing in-house, high-quality tabloid color printing, copying, scanning and faxing for businesses of all sizes. Businesses can now increase their productivity with a color MFP that delivers full A4 and A3 capabilities.

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The printer I'm recommending this year is the HP Photosmart C6380. For my home and home office printing, it has set a new standard in price, convenience and quality.

It lists for $246, but can be found online for as little as $159, making it one of the best priced all-in-one copier, photo printer, scanner and printer I've yet to try. It doesn't have a fax machine, like some of the earlier all-in-one models.

The C6380 makes up for that by printing 4 x 6 photos in lab quality in as little as 18 seconds and for regular printing, it spits out crisp near laser-like quality black print at up to 33 pages per minute in draft mode. Color mode is almost as fast, at 31 ppm.

But what has won me over to this model is the ease by which it can be wirelessly networked to a home network. By simply loading the software, I had two Mac desktops, a Windows desktop and two Mac notebook computers connected to it in no time.

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The Brother DCP-6690CW is a multifunction device so it includes a scanner, copier and printer, but its important feature is that it can do all that on A3-size paper.

The scanner and sheet feeder are at the top, while the printer feeds and outputs paper from the front. There's a large touch-sensitive colour screen on the front that can be used to preview photographs from connected cameras or memory cards.

It's a big printer, but considering the size of paper it takes it's surprisingly compact, measuring 54cm across the front. It can connect to both wired and wireless networks so you could stash it in a cupboard, rather than cluttering up other rooms.

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Making a photo inkjet printer into an all-in-one could be a fairly mundane adaptation, but Epson has decided to use the opportunity for a design rethink in producing the Stylus Photo PX800FW. Although aimed primarily at the six-ink photo enthusiast market, it includes useful business features, such as the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and CD/DVD tray.

This is an all-in-one machine with attitude, from its low-profile, black exterior to its long, wide touch panel, which hinges out for control. The gentle slope of the black plastic cover rises and falls as you open the ADF in a neat, if slightly creaky, way.

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We're big fans of laser printers: if you don't want to print photos, they're fast, efficient and cheap.

The Brother MFC-7320 combines a black and white A4 laser printer with scanner, copier and fax machine.

It's solidly built, though not too heavy, and it's quite compact, being only a touch bigger than the average single-function laser printer. The scanner section is at the top, along with the document feeder for a small stack of paper to be scanned or copied. A section below contains the paper output from the printer, and it lifts up to allow jams to be cleared.

Below that is the paper tray – a proper paper tray as opposed to the flimsy units many cheaper laser printers use. There's a monochrome status screen on the front that relates to all the functions, and the buttons are easy to understand. They're also made of a hardy rubber, which means they'll last.

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