HP Photosmart 3310 All-in-One series (Around £270/$520)

HP call this the world's fastest printing all-in-one printer, and the Photosmart 3310 has a wide variety of features. It can also be used as a fax, but without an auto feeder, you might find positioning scans on the flatbed a bit tiresome. But that's the only thing you can say against this glorious machine. It's quick, the quality is excellent, and in a business environment it’s as reliable as your hole-punch. The screen is a hefty 9.1cm, and it will print your photos in under 15 seconds. Want to view video clips with sound? Go ahead. Want to print sequences of photos? Go nuts. Want to drive to Gretna Green with it in the boot and carry out an inappropriate marriage ceremony? Move along please. Weirdo.

HP Officejet Pro K550dtwn Colour Printer (Around £220/$420)

The Officejet Pro K550 means business, and whilst its photo printing isn't the best, it thrives in the office environment, where it can churn out page upon page of pie charts and the other stuff that keeps people in suits happy. The 'dtwn' model is the bigger brother of the family, both in terms of features and price, but the value for money is still impressive. It's number two because I think this is the best choice for the office environment, but doesn't quite have the all-round functionality of...

Canon PIXMA MP800R (Around £240/$450

It's number three, and we're getting to the more serious-looking models. The PIXMA MP800R is another all-in-one extravaganza, and it’s got more buttons than the space shuttle, a luxurious 8.9cm screen and direct printing from memory cards. If you're serious about photo printing, this is one of the best choices around, and the value for its relatively hefty price tag is not bad, not bad at all....

Brother MFC-640CW (Around £220/$420

Number four is Brother’s all-singing, all-dancing MFC-640CW. It's a fax, it's a scanner, it's a photocopier, it's a printer. It'll choose your mother-in-law's birthday present and it will do it all over wireless. It doesn’t have a huge screen but it's enough, and it comes with a multi-functional memory card reader. The price and function set make it ideal for the small office that could do with just one fewer wire.

Canon PIXMA iP5200R (Around £115/$220

In at five is Canon's PIXMA iP5200R. When Canon released the iP5000, people raved about the quality and speed, but there was no network loving. Well, add a '200R' and you can get the same printer with wi-fi. Easy Peasy? Well not quite – no LCD screen means fiddly PC-based setup. But you're only going to set it up once, and for this quality and function set, you’ll do well to find anything else at the same price.

Printing Press

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring an image. The mechanical systems involved were first assembled in Germany by the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw-presses used to press cloth, grapes etc., and possibly to print woodcuts, which were printed in Europe before Gutenberg. Although both woodblock printing and movable type printing press technologies were already developed first in China, and Korea in East Asia several hundred years earlier, Gutenberg was the first in Western Europe to develop a printing press

Fine art printing material..

HP fine art papers and canvas materials offer a broad range of color, texture, thickness, sheen and durability with media such as photo rag by Hahnemuhle, watercolor paper, embossed paper, and a variety of canvas and fine art material.