5 Best Cheap All In One wireless Photo Printer Reviews

Summary

There's no denying that a multi-function printer is convenient - you don't even need to turn a computer on to get going. All five printers in the test produced photos of a quality that most users should be happy with, but probably not for the most discerning enthusiast photographer. Also, while their Wi-fi, email, AirPrint and cloud printing features are great for family use, and for camera phone users, they're less essential for serious hobbyists. They are, however, ideal as a workhorse for everyday use.

Of the models tested here, the Brother DCP-J72DW is a neat unit that will satisfy most users for day to day printing, as it offers a good range of features at a modest prices. The HP Photosmart 7520 produced good photo quality prints that will satisfy most home users, it produced excellent test document too, so would be well suited to a SOHO environment. The Canon PIXMA MG5450 print quality is excellent for a four colour printer, and offers good specifications for the home user, but lacks features such as ADF and duplex printing which may be useful for SOHO environment. The Epson Expression XP-405, is a small unit that would be ideal for a student or for the user who needs to produce small run newsletters, but lacks finer quality for printing photographs. The Epson XP-750 is a well specified unit with many useful features for Photographer. It's the only unit in this review to offer six photo links. For the best photo quality you really do need a printer with six inks, they provide greater subtlety of colours and smoother gradients, Which is why the Epson Expression Photo XP-750 wins out Editor's Choice Award in this test.

Printers Round Up

Brother DCP7065DN

This well specified multifunction unit uses four ink cartridges. The Printer has a 4.9cm colour touch-screen LCD, USB, PictBridge, Wi-fi, card reader (SD/MS,but no CF) double sided printing, ADF for scanning and an optical scan resolution of 1200 x 2400dpi, The scanner's lid has telescopic hinges for thicker items like books.

The LCD is low resolution but serves the purpose. The media tray is a little flimsy but can hold 100 sheets of plain paper or 20 sheet of glossy photo media, while a smaller tray can simultaneously hold 20 sheets of 6x4in photo paper, Printing time for a full A4 photo is an impressive 1 min 50 sec.

The printer produced clean colours from our test file, Colours on the cotton reels are well saturated, our landscape and harbour scenes are very impressive with strong colours, The B/W image and tone scale are almost cast free, with just a hint of magenta creeping in but still producing pleasing grey tones as well as a solid deep black.

Pros

- Fast Print speed
- Small footprint
- Low running cost

Cons

- Basic scanning controls
- Small, low resolution LCD
- ADF caused several jams

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HP Photosmart 7520

This has a superb 10.9cm colour touch-screen LCD, which also displays an animated set up tutorial. There are slots for Memory Stick and SD cards, But not CompactFlash. There's also a USB port but no Pictbridge. The printer tray can hold 125 sheets of A4 plain paper and 20 Sheets of 6x4in photo media. Connection is via USB or Wi-fi, which can be used for ePrints from mobile devices via the free HP app (iOS or Android). The printing time for our A4 file using the best setting was a pedestrian 3 min 20 sec, while a 6x4in took 1 min 5 sec. The colours are well saturated but are not as vivid as we'd have liked. Text printing as particularly outstanding.

The scanner is one the fastest I've tested a full surface scan at 400dpi took just eight second, and the scan quality is very good though the adjustments are fairly basic. One small minus point - the power button is near to where you lift the scanner lid, so I accidentally turned the unit off several times.

Pros

- Large LCD screen
- Great text printing
- Build quality

Cons

- Basic scanning options
- Poor power button location
- No CF slot or PictBridge

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Canon Pixma MG5450

This stylish, low profile unit offers basic but useful features, 7,5 cm colour LCD screen, dual card slot (no CF). CD/DVD label printing, cloud printing duple printing. Wi-fi and USB connectivity. The printer has three media trays, for A4 plain of photo paper, 6x4in or 5x7in photo media and a CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc tray.

The photo quality from the MG5450 using just four inks is outstanding. The printing time for our A4 file was a respectable 2 min 5 sec. The colours are well saturated and vibrant in each image on the test print. THe reds are particularly good ( Canon printers have always been good with reds) and the B/W image is totally cast free.

The scanner has an optical resolution of 2400dpi and an interpolated resolution of 19200dpi, but it's a no frills unit and the scans are rather disappointing - they're soft even with the Unsharp masking turned on in Canon ScanGear software. A full A4 scan took 15 seconds to complete.

Pros

- Excellent colour printing
- CD/DVD label printing
- There media trays

Cons

- Large physical size
- Disappointing scan quality
- No CF or PictBridge

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Epson Expression Home Xp-405

Epson calls the Xp-405 a "small in one" and it is one of the smallest printers in this test, it has dual memory card slots (SD/MS), 6,3cm colour LCD screen. 1200dpi scanner, and Wi-fi.

This is the only unit in our test to feature a rear gravity feed for papers, which risks exposing unused photo paper left in the printer to air pollutants such as dust. Printing time was 3 min 5 sec. Our test print displays vibrant colours, but lacks a little warmth,, and the B&w photo has a noticeable cyan cast.The scanner resolution is more than sufficient for photo scanning and copying work. Scanning is controlled from the front LCD panel and includes a wide range of saving options. FOr some reason this unit didn't want to print out test photos stored on a memory card, and for the Scan to PC option we got a USB error message, so we had to resort to using Epson Scan software Our full are scan took a slow 25 seconds and the resulting scan lacked bite.

Pros

- Small footprint
- Mobile printing
- Low unit cost

Cons

- Rear media feed
- Disappointing print quality
- Scan speed

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Epson Expression Photo XP-750

The Epson Xp-750 features a bright 8.8cm LCD touch-screen, together with a motorised control panel and output tray that opens automatically before printing. THere are dual front loading trays for A4 and 6x4in paper, plus a motorised CD/DVD printing tray. Card slots include CompactFlash, and PrictBridge is supported. Epson Connect enables wireless printing from mobile devices, or direct to a compatible printer anywhere in the world.

The XP-750 uses six cartridges, containing Epson's new Claria HD Photo inks. The colour quality our test print is excellent, with smooth gradients, our B&W image is cast free, and line illustrations have no bleeding, even with white on black, Print time was 1 min 5 sec. The scanner resolution is 2400 dpi which is high enough for film, though sadly there isn't a film scanning option. THe scanner lid sits flush to the top surface, which can make it hard to scan thicker books, but scan quality is first class.

Pros

- Fast printing
- Large LCD screen
- CF card support

Cons

- No height adjustment on scanner lid for book scanning etc.

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4.5 / 5