All-in-one multifunction printers, are just that: they combine inkjet printing with a built-in scanner to offer color copying, and, increasingly, other features too.

How about switching from an inkjet to a laser printer to start the New Year? This move that could actually make you save quite a lot on ink (about five times). Personal lasers have indeed become increasingly affordable, and for the first time, colour laser too is available at a price that won't send you broke.

Here you'll find our archives of multifunction printers that we tested up to the end of August 2009.

We took six very different printers--colour, mono, inkjet, laser …--and we worked out how long they'd take to run for three years. We found some surprisingly similar results, apart from one star that ended up at half of the cost of almost all the others!