Canon MAXIFY GX7150 all-in-one inkjet printer, colour, A4, fax, Wi-Fi

An inkjet printer handles black text as well as colour charts, tables, presentations and marketing material. Colour pays off when a report contains diagrams, a proposal carries a logo or training material uses pictures that would lose their meaning in black and white. The maximum paper size is A4, which covers standard office documents, letters and forms.

Alongside printing, the machine has a colour scanner and a fax. Colour scanning means signatures, stamps and colour attachments reach the digital archive looking like the original. Fax is still used by many public bodies, accounting firms and healthcare providers, and when a partner insists on it you do not need a separate fax machine.

The GX7150 supports two-sided printing. Multi-page documents become thinner, paper use goes down and folders and bound copies take up less space. In everyday office work, where contracts, manuals and meeting packs are printed, this is one of the features that gets used every single day.

The printer connects over Wi-Fi, so it does not have to sit beside one particular computer and no cable needs to run across the office. Every computer on the same network can print to it. The white housing suits a bright office. The manufacturer gives no information about wired interfaces.

Small offices and home offices that want colour printing, a scanner and a fax in one device; organisations whose partners still send faxes; and teams looking for a single wireless printer that prints two-sided and in colour. All of these functions fit into a single white-bodied device.