Compare Prices : Canon PIXMA iP2500

Review summary: The Macworld team take a look at a selection of colour inkjet printers offering the best for photographers and businesses alike.

Pros: Reasonable price, good quality prints, comes with a pack of 30 sheets of Canon A4 photo paper

Cons: Lack of print output tray, magenta bias on colour photos

Verdict: The driver provides considerable leeway in adjusting the colour output, which was handy as prints from our samples tended to come out with too much magenta.

Review summary: If you want an affordable, straight-forward inkjet printer you could do a lot worse than this sleek effort from Canon.

Verdict: There's very little to complain about in the PIXMA iP2500. It's a good, simple inkjet printer, which is easy to maintain, simple to use and well supported in software. Print quality is more than adequate for home use on both plain and photo papers, ...

Review summary: Colour laser printers may be falling as dramatically in price as they are rising in colour quality, but nobody should be counting out the humble inkjet just yet.

Verdict: Neither of these printers is a showstopper, and if your budget will stretch to £60 or £70 you should look for something a little faster. However, if you have time to spare, you can coax surprisingly high-quality prints from them. As a cheap model for ...

Review summary: No speed demon, but a decent alternative to high-street printing

Pros: Cheap ; good quality photos considering the price ; compact

Cons: No output tray ; some issues with fine detail ; a little slow

Verdict: A decent, compact printer that's capable of outputting some quality photos