Whether you're working in a busy professional office or are just a one-person show with offices in your basement, a laser printer can be a huge benefit. Laser and LED printers offer great print speeds, so that you can print as fast as three seconds per page, and fantastic final products (as long as you don't really want to print photographs, though graphics typically look great). Best of all, pricing on laser and LED printers is getting closer to inkjet pricing--and while toner refills aren't cheap, they do last a very long time. The list of Best Laser / LED Printers has been updated with some new pricing and some new units. When you start your search for a new printer, consider taking the plunge on a laser printer and you probably won't be dissatisfied.

Canon's newest Pixma printer, the MX892, offers a lot for not so much money. At about $200, the printer offers scanning, faxing, and copying capability, in addition to wired or wireless networking, an automatic document feeder, and lots of other options that are often only for more expensive printers. What you won't get is a printer that's particularly fast, or all that quiet. Well, as John Barth once wrote, life choices are trade-offs, dear reader, and while he wasn't referring specifically to printers, the lesson holds true here. Not that you necessarily have to trade speed for quality, but while this printer doesn't provide much of the former, it does have a great deal of the latter, particularly when it comes to printing photos, where the MX892 really shines. Want to learn more about the pros and cons of the newest Canon Pixma printer? Read the Full Review for more details.

Canon today announced the release of a new addition to its line of Pixma printers, the MX892 Wireless Office All-in-One, which it calls "the flagship model in the award-winning family" of Canon Pixma printers. The MX892 will allow easy access to Google Cloud Print as well as Canon's Pixma Cloud Link--the latter allows users to print photos directly from online albums. Another option for wireless connectivity is Canon Easy-Photo Print, an app (for iPhones and Android devices) "where documents can be scanned on the printer and sent to the [mobile] device." The printer uses five ink tanks, can scan oversized documents, offers built-in duplex printing / scanning / copying, and comes with lots of photo-effects software. When available, it will retail for $199.99. Check back soon for a full review.

More and more I'm seeing inkjet printers that are said to rival laser printers in quality, and it's not always just marketing hype. Given the difference in technologies, I'm not sure it will ever be completely equal; but for evaluation by mere mortals, the difference is certainly becoming less and less. That's the case with the new Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000 color inkjet all-in-one printer, which boasts not only laser-like quality but also some pretty decent speeds as well. At least, under some circumstances. But for the price point  (around $250) it's going to be easy to overlook some weak points when an inkjet printer offers results as good as these. Check out the Full Review of the Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000 for more details and pros and cons.

Panasonic's new monochrome laser printer, the KX-MB1500, retails for not much more than $100 but it feels like it should cost more, since it offers copy and scan capabilities in addition to being a perfectly acceptable laser printer. It's light on extras such as Wi-Fi or wired networking, and so home offices or small workgroups that need to share a printer might want to spend a bit more on another (larger) all-in-one printer. Otherwise it's hard to find major faults in a printer that costs much less than many inkjet printers. If you don't need to network a printer or require color prints, this might be a good deal for you.