Still, if Apple made a printer, it would probably be a lot like the HP Envy 120. It’s beautifully designed and built, initial setup and daily use are both as easy as any we’ve experienced, and it comes with the highest price tag and running costs here. Whether it’s right for you depends on your approach to home furnishings: pretty much every printer here is better for actual printing, but nothing comes close to the Envy 120’s glorious design.

The HP Envy 120 printer is slim, sleek, and looks smart. If it had a dedicated photo tray, it would be perfect for a home office that didn’t have a lot of spare space. It’s good for buyers that don’t need to print much or often, but it’s expensive.

The HP ENVY 120 e-All-in-One Printer focuses on its own good looks and on consumer-electronics touches like a paper drawer that automatically opens and closes like a DVD tray.

HP's Envy 120 has a real feel of quality about it, from the automatically opening control panel and tray to the silky smooth glass touch-screen and the innovative inverted scanner mechanism. It does a good job of printing, scanning and copying, and its wireless connection works well for printing from most mobile devices. Shame it can't hold plain and photo paper at the same time, and that its asking price may discourage some customers.