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

Adobe Lightroom 5 Reviews 2014

Is a standalone version of Adobe Lightroom 5 a better alternative to renting Photoshop?

Adobe Lightroom 5

Adobe Lightroom has become a popular choice for amateurs. enthusiasts and pro's who want an all in one software package to edit and process images (specifically Raw files) quickly and with excellent result. It's best summed up as a streamlined version of Photoshop with tools focused towards processing images rather than heavy manipulation. Ths asks the question though does it make a better one off buy for the majority of users compared to Photoshop. which is now only available to rent on a month by month basis through Adobe's Creative Cloud?

New Features

We were impressed by the features offered in Adobe Lightroom 4 and Adobe has managed to to one better by introducing some intuitive features that are bound to receive a warm reception. The workspace is split into the same seven modules as before and although no major changes have been carried out in the Library module (the area where images are rated. organised and exported) many of the new features have been introduced.

To the Develop module, where global and localised adjustments are carried out in a non destructive way. The most significant development is the introduction of Smart Previews - a new function tailored for photographers who'd like to edit shots on the move without overfilling the storage capacity on a portable device, such as a laptop. The way it works is that smaller smart Previews Image files are generated as they're imported. When you become disconnected from your main hard drive where original files are stored you;re given the freedom to edit any Smart Previews in the same way you normally would, and it's these changes that can then be applied back to the full size originals after reconnecting the portable device to the hard drive. This simple but effective process will play a huge part in speeding up a busy photographer's work-flow and storage demands.

Another new feature is the Advanced Healing Brush - a tool intended to offer more control and flexibility when cloning. Unlike circular healing tools it's now much easier to remove irregular imperfections in an image by simply brushing over unwanted object. Adobe's Content Aware technology studies the best pixels to use for replacement, or ther;s the option to sample the pixels if you;d prefer.

There's also a new Upright tool to correct images taken askew. ALthough this could be done using the Crop tool, the UPright tool is intended to speed up the process and straighten images with a single click after analysing the horizontal and vertical lines within an image. The new Radial Gradient tool is also well received and improves on the Post Crop Vignetting function. Unlike Adobe Lightroom 4. you can now create off centre vignettes around a subject to draw you viewers eyes to the heart of the image, with the option to also create multiple vignettes within a single image if this should be desired.

Moving into the book module (the dedicated area that's used to create Photobooks through the company blurb) there's now the option to modify templates rather than replying on set layouts. In the Slide show module. HD video can also now be merged with images and music, with option images from video footage just like Adobe Lightroom 4.

The new radial gradient filter lets you choose where you'd like to apply a vignette rather than always applying it in the centre of an image. It gives you the option to create more than one Vignette and provides great control with a total of 14 adjustment sliders.


The Book module has been modified and now allows you to adjust templates by changing the size of images that appear on the page. There's still no option to create your own templates from scratch - a feature we'd like to see in a future release.

The Advanced Healing Brush lets you paint over large distractions to remove them easily. There's the choice of using the pixels that the software thinks are best for replacement or you have the choice of selecting the area of pixels you want it to use.




"Unlike Adobe Lightroom 4, you can now create off centre vignettes around subjects to draw your viewers' eyes to the heart of the image"

Performance & Interface The design of the interface is unchanged with the exception of the new options and features appearing in their respective modules. The clean, Uncluttered arrangement of thumbnails, options and adjustments is sublime and the dark grey interface with a light grey tone in the centre gives it a modern appearance without feeling daunting for beginners.

In use, we experienced no teething troubles with the new features when running it on a 3.2 GHz intel Core i3 iMac, but we did pick up on a couple of other minor issues, Low resolution files didn't seem to retain the sharpening and noise reduction adjustments we;d applied after they;d been exported, and the files we had selected in the grid view weren't the same as those selected in the film-strip. Adobe stressed that the film-strip selection of images is the correct selection to go by and promises that a future update (expected as this issue went to press) will address these annoying grid selection and exporting bugs.

The program otherwise ran smoothly with no infuriating delays, The advanced Healing Brush makes it a lot easier to achieve flawless cloning result when attempting to remove larger imperfections. where previously images may have had to be worked on In Photoshop. One area that hasn't been improved in Adobe Lightroom 5 is the preset it. In a future version we'd like an even longer list of creative and artistic presets that could be applied with a single click. One example could be a tilt/shift effect or maybe artistic and distressed border edge presets. We know Adobe already has some of this functionality within Photoshop Elements, so maybe it won't be long before Adobe Lightroom adopts it too?

Pros and cons

Pros

- Advanced Healing Brush tool
- Radial Gradient tool
- better photobook customisation

Cons

- Bugs with initial release
- No new presets
- Lacks export options to social media

Verdict

Although we wouldn't say Adobe Lightroom 5 is a huge step up from Lighroom 4, the new features it offers will appeal to a wide audience, especially those who'd like to take advantage of Smart Preview editing on the move. The Radial Gradient Filter is one of our favourite new features and offers superb vignetting control, while other improvements such as altering the size of images when arranging a photobook add up to make it a better all round package.

It's compatible with most of the latest Raw files produced by the latest cameras and makes a great choice if you've owned Photoshop but are put off by upgrading to Adobe's new pay monthly pricing plan. it's unknown for how long Adobe Lightroom will escape the Creative Cloud subscription service on a permanent basis, so it's worth buying as a one off while you can and revert to using another version of Photoshop for more complex imaging tasks.

For organising, editing and outputting images there's no other software that comes close to offering what Adobe Lightroom. It's great to use and has the potential to transform your editing for the better.

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Adobe Adobe Lightroom 5 Reviews 2014 Adobe Lightroom has become a popular choice for amateurs. enthusiasts and pro's who want an all in one software package to edit and process images (specifically Raw files) quickly and with excellent result. Andrian Manhatan Adobe Adobe Lightroom 5

4.5 / 5

PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 Reviews Updates

Enthusiast compact that features a built-in electronic viewfinder and 7.1x optical zoom

Rather than employing the same 10.1MP 1/1.7in Live Mos sensor found in the LX7. The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 features a 12.1MP 1/1.7in Live MOS sensor with an ISO range from 80 to 6400 that can be expanded to 12.800 if needed. The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 manages to pack in one of the longest reaching zoom lenses for an enthusiast compact, with a 7.1x 28-200mm optical coverage. It's not quite as wide as some rivals or as fast, with a variable maximum aperture range f/2-5.9. but you get that extra reach at the long end.

The feature that's going to cause the most interest on The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 is the inclusion of an electronic viewfinder (EVF). with the 0.2in EVF sporting a 200k-dot resolution and a 100% field of view that shares a similar if not identical specification to EFVs found on some Panasonic bridge cameras such as the FZ62. Complementing the EVF is a 3in. 920k-dot display.

With The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 designed for both those looking for a quality point and shoot compact and for more experienced users, The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 features a broad range of shooting modes including iA+ (Intelligent Auto) for assisted shooting, Creative Control, Panorama as well as manual, aperture and shutter priority modes.

The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 features both WI-FI and NFC connectivity options, while if you;re looking to shoot video, there's the choice of Full HD 1920 x 1080 at 50i in AVCHD or 25p with MP4 output, while sound can be recorded in stereo provided that you're shooting in AVCHD.

Design

The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 eschews the design of the LX7 and instead opts for a more sleek and unfussy look that's a little reminiscent of Sony's RX100. its proportions are a little closer to Canon's PowerShot S110 or Nikon's Coolpix P330 though, with dimensions of 102,5 x 62.1 x 27.9mm meaning that it'll easily slip into most pockets and the weight won;t be too troublesome either, coming in at 192g. It has a quality feel and while the curved edges mean there's no space for a hand-grip as such, it still feels comfy in the hand.

Unlike the LX7 which has a dedicated aperture control ring, The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 has a multifunctional control ring that can be set up to control aperture, shutter speed, ISO and Creative Control, meaning exterior body controls are kept to a minimum.

Performance

Whether using 1-Area, 23-Area or Face Detection AF modes, focus was snappy and only struggled slightly in low contrast scenes which is to be expected, though we'd be hesitant to use the AF Tracking mode on fast moving subjects. It;ll happily track a subject across the frame, but rapid or erratic movements from you subject will see tracking lost - but this is not unique to The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1.

The EVF is a welcome and useful addition to The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1, and something many people have been calling out for in a compact camera of this size. But there;s no getting away from the fact that the display is quite small, while colours appears rather muted compared to the ear 3in display and the level of detail offered is limited it;s perhaps unreasonable to expect anything more when you consider the size of the camera and the fact that it's unique feature for a camera of this class. Keep your expectations in check and the EVF is more than adequate for general composition, particularly in bright sunlight when it can be nearly impossible to frame shots on rear screen, making it a real benefit.

The rear 3in display is good, delivering a decent amount of clarity and crispness, though it doesn't quite deliver the same punch as WhiteMagic display used on the Sony RX100 or AMOLED based screens.

The Control Ring round the lens allows you to make quick exposure adjustment, while the flexibility to program it to a desired setting is welcome, with adjustment clearly displayed in the rear screen or EVF, Combined with the additional function button and the four preset controls, and you've got pretty much everything at your fingertips, though if needed there's a quick menu to access other key settings of The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1.

Image Quality

In most instances The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 will expose nicely for the scene, though we did find in bright conditions there's a bias towards retaining shadow detail at the expense of blown highlight, requiring exposure compensation to be applied.

Noise only faintly becomes present at ISO 800. Above this and noise reduction comes into play, with result losing definition in an effort to combat noise - at ISO 6400 results look distinctly patchy and waxing, though Raw Files are much better.

Verdict

While the LX7 may suit enthusiasts better, those looking for a quality pocket compact camera will find there;s lots to like about The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1, its compact size, straight forward handling, decent zoom range, great images, Wi-fi connectivity and the inclusion of a build in EVF all combine to make The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 a great premium compacts.

Pros

• Build in EVF
• Wi-fi connectivity
• Zoom range
• Resolution
• Handling

Cons

• EVG is quite small
• Slow maximum aperture
• MUted colours

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PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 Reviews Updates While the LX7 may suit enthusiasts better, those looking for a quality pocket compact camera will find there;s lots to like about The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1, its compact size, straight forward handling, decent zoom range, great images, Wi-fi connectivity and the inclusion of a build in EVF all combine to make The PANASONIC LUMIX LF1 a great premium compacts. andrian manhatan PANASONIC LUMIX LF1

5 / 5