But with a selection of thousands of different printers and at least a dozen of brands to choose from, where should you begin?
The most obvious places will be with a Canon, a Hewlett Packard or an Epson printer. These three companies are the main players on the home printing market and will present you with the largest amount of printers to choose from.
If we start with the Canon printers, you fill find (after a little research) that one of the most popular versions is the Canon Pixma printer. The reason that so many people like it is that it is easy to install, prints pretty fast and will deliver a reasonable quality of print at the price that you have to pay for it. And on top of that is has several other functionalities other than printing.
For the Hewlett Packard we see that one of the higher end home printers is the HP OfficeJet 6500 All-In-One model. As the name says this will not only be able to print but it will also scan documents and can be used as a copier. The price is slightly higher than the Canon model mentioned above but it is also a very different piece of equipment.
Finally we have the Epson printers. The thing with Epson is that they have never really been able to produce a model that had a larger (we’re talking millions) audience fall in love with them. One of the reasons might be that they have produces a lot less models to choose from, when compared to Canon and HP.
So my advice to you would be to start off by looking at either Canon or HP and to maybe even find a comparison site where you can see your chosen models against one another.
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]]>So, what’s great about the Canon PIXMA printer? Simple: It’s wireless. You can bring it anywhere you want and set it up within seconds. You don’t have to worry about setting up complicated wiring systems, plugging in serial ports (do laptops even have those these days?), or doing any crazy hardware configuration. Just plug the printer into a normal power outlet, and there you have it. You’ll connect wirelessly. Now, some of them are probably the type that don’t have their own ethernet system. What you’ll have to do is connect the printer directly to your router. I believe the Canon PIXMA MP560 and MP640 are like this. It’s not that big of a deal, but if you really need to print something out when you don’t have access to a network router, it can be a big deal. Business meetings would be a good example of this. Now, let’s keep in mind that the MP560 and 640 are primarily photo printers. You usually don’t need to have a self-contained ethernet system when all you need to do is print photos.
Doing so is usually not a task that’s extraordinarily important, and just about everyone will be fine not needing the built-in internet functionality. Now, the PIXMA MX860 is a different story. This is an all-in-one printer that’s meant for the office. It’ll print photos, sure, but it’s also designed to do the usual printing of documents. Because this might be something valuable to be able to use everywhere without a hitch, it does come with a built-in ethernet card. You can connect to it wireless anywhere. On the bus ride to work? Print out some business cards. 
Canon printer drivers are also extremely easy to find, so not to worry there. You can just go on their website and download them for all the supporting OSs. Windows and Mac are going to be easily found, but if you run Linux things might be a little more difficult.
Alright everyone, I hope this has helped you decide on which Canon printers would be best for the job you do!
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