Sub-£100 inkjet printers (Canon, Epson, Lexmark)
Unfortunately, the myth of the paperless office is just that - a myth. We all seem to print more pages now than we ever did. Make a purchase over the Internet and you’ll want to print off your order acknowledgement. See an interesting Web site and you might print off a couple of pages for a friend or relation who has never heard of HTML.
If you have a digital camera, no doubt you are in love with its ability to take endless high-quality pictures, but sooner rather than later you’ll want to print out a lovely glossy A4 print, and a stack of 6″ x 4″ too.
Then there are text documents. Of course you can read through on screen, but it’s a fact that you’ll spot more mistakes when you see it all laid out in black and white, and of course you can make notes on a printout using your trusty Biro.
You’ll be printing black text, text combined with pictures and high quality colour pictures, and the easiest and cheapest way to achieve all those tasks is with an inkjet printer.
Of course there are different kinds of inkjet printers, with a huge variety of prices. Most of us need a relatively basic printer, although we may have a preference for one type of printing over another. So in this group test we’ve gathered together six inkjet printers that cost less than £100 including VAT, to see just which budget printer is the best for your home or small office.