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I’m trying to update my home office.  I’m interested in replacing my printer - preferably with something that prints both typed documents as well as color photos and I’d like to add a copier and scanner to the home office and possibly a fax (although that’s the least important item.  My questions are: 
1.  Are you better off buying an “all 3 or 4” in one item, each piece of equipment seperately or 2 pieces of equipment that have dual functions?
2.  Are there certain combinations that are better than others, ie.  scanner and fax together?  printer and copier?

I don’t have a lot of space in my home office, but particularly when it comes to printing and copying, I want a highly efficient (with ink b&w, and color cartridges) and fairly quick printing machine.  I also find that now that my kids are in school, I constantly need to print photos of different things and am always having to run to CVS with my chip to get a picture printed for tommorrow - so I’d like to elimnate that errand.  What would you recommend?

There’s no need to buy separate equipment. You can get a great multi-function printer, or all-in-one, today that performs all tasks well. What you need to figure out is whether you need a true fax or not. If fax really isn’t that important to you, I’d go with a photo all-in-one. About $150 is all you really need to spend. I’d consider the:

Canon Pixma MP620
Epson Artisan 700 or 800 (with fax add an extra $50)
HP Photosmart Plus