Tie a holiday ribbon on an all-in-one printer

By Elsa Wenzel on 25 November 2004

Tags: all-in-one | dell | hp | lexmark | multifunction | printer | photo | review | greeting | gift

Tie a holiday ribbon on an all-in-one printer Multifunction printers not only make great gifts themselves, they're also handy for decorating gifts, planning parties and sending seasonal greetings. Feature-rich and simple to use, these photo-friendly all-in-ones can help you scan and revive old family pictures, customise greeting cards, photocopy and fax invitations and more.

Most of these machines ship with software to walk you through retouching old photos or slapping, say, a family portrait on a festive postcard. Why not personalise presents by printing frame-worthy photos, calendars or scrapbooks? Just remember to stock up on extra ink and special paper for your projects.


Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 922
Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 922
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If you want a fast scanner that produces high-quality prints, this is the one. But for overall speed and fax capabilities, look elsewhere.

HP OfficeJet 5510 all-in-one
HP OfficeJet 5510 all-in-one
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A multifunction unit that's not only compact, but also a good all-round performer.

Lexmark P6250
Lexmark P6250
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The P6250 is an all-in-one home photo printer that includes a scanner and some intuitive consumer-friendly touches such as animated tutorials on its 2.5-inch colour LCD.
























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Ross Newcombe
08/12/2004 11:37 PM

Missing functionality: (1) Besides reproducing photographs, those who publish newsletters, or create multi-page do****ents, require the capacity to print on both sides. This desirable capacity is not clearly listed as a feature of most products. (2) A multifunction printer with a telephone and an in-built telephone answering machine which recognises incoming fax messages has yet to appear in the market place. Once such a device becomes available I'll save a lot of desk real-estate by getting rid of my current printer and scanner and fax/phone. (3) Having introduced a wireless mouse & keyboard I am now looking forward to wireless operation of a multifuntion printer with the extra features describes above. Most PC users would love to see the end of the current birdsnest of wires required to connect individual fax/copier, scanner, printer devices. What is the likely timelag before the above wishlist can be fulfilled?

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