Epson EcoTank L6570 all-in-one printer A4, colour, fax, 3 trays, Black

The L6570 comes with three paper trays as standard. That means you can load, for example, plain A4, letterhead and heavier paper at the same time, without emptying and refilling a tray for every job. The larger paper supply also means fewer interruptions when several people print one after another during the day. The output tray holds 125 sheets.

Print speed under ISO/IEC 24734 is 25 ipm in both mono and colour. The standard measures it with ordinary office documents, so the figure describes real work. Colour reports, charts and presentations come out as quickly as text documents, so no queue builds up at the printer even when the whole team prints in colour.

The printer prints on both sides of the sheet, which cuts paper use and makes long documents thinner. Print resolution reaches 4800 × 1200 dpi, so text is sharp and fine detail in charts is easy to make out. A scanning resolution of 1200 × 2400 dpi keeps scanned and copied documents clearly legible as well.

Colour scanning and copying handle everyday paperwork, and fax is there for anyone whose partners or authorities still use it. All four functions live in one device, so the office does not need a separate fax machine or scanner. A scanned document can be saved to a computer and sent on by email, while a paper copy is made right at the device. The black housing looks at home in an office.

Ethernet puts the printer on the office LAN, and Wi-Fi lets people print to it without a cable. Wi-Fi Direct lets a phone or tablet connect straight to the printer even when there is no router, and USB handles a direct link to a single computer. That way the whole team can share the device, and the printer can sit wherever there is room rather than next to a particular computer.

Offices that print a lot in both mono and colour every day; teams that use several paper types and do not want to keep swapping tray contents; and companies where fax, scanner and copier need to live in one shared A4 network device that keeps up with several users.