New Product Survey: Multifunction printers 08-09

Canon, HP, Lexmark and Epson have all refreshed their collections of multifunction inkjet printers with built-in scanners and copiers.  We brought a bunch of their bestsellers into our labs to compare prices, speed and quality on the most popular all-in-ones on the market today

The big move this year seems to be the growing popularity of WiFi, which is more and more common.  There still remains a wide gap in performance between the best and the worst of the bunch, though.

We tested the Canon MP620 and MP630, the HP Photosmart C4480, the Kodak ESP-3 and ESP-5 and the Lexmark X4650, and some remarkable discrepancies.  Printing the same 4 x 6" photo, for instance, took anywhere between 20 and 85 seconds on different printers.

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