Many of the inkjet multifunction printers on this month's chart wear one of two hats: office-oriented or photocentric. Our two Best Buys, however, wear both hats equally well. The Canon Pixma MP760 can scan both negatives and slide film, and also makes copies quickly. Our other Best Buy, HP's OfficeJet 7210 All-In-One, provides ethernet connectivity as well as an automatic document feeder (ADF), yet it also prints high-quality glossy photos and comes with media card slots.
The Epson Stylus Photo RX620 scans film, produced lovely glossy photos in our tests, and generated some of the nicest scans we saw. It's the only MFP in this group that prints directly from USB memory keys, too. But the RX620's slow text printing and unattractive plain-paper prints make it a poor choice for office duties.
All the HP and Canon models here had top-notch text printing and copy quality, though HP's PSC 1610 made copies at a very slow 42 seconds per sheet. The PSC 1610 has the lowest price on the chart.
The Lexmark X7170 created the least-impressive scans but was the quickest at printing text, at 7.8 pages per minute.
