Let's face it: all-in-one printers are usually terrible. There's a reason nobody sells a car that's also a dishwasher and a shoehorn. Most of the time, "all-in-one" is just code for "does everything terribly."
That's why we were pleasantly surprised when the Kodak ESP 7250 ($200) landed on our desk - because it doesn't suck.
The 7250 is a wireless printer aimed primarily at students. It'll run you about $200, and the folks at Kodak claim their ink replacement costs are the lowest in the industry.
What you get is a printer and a scanner you can install in just a couple of minutes without having to plug into your computer. Virtually everything the 7250 does, it can do wirelessly. The printer's main control panel is uncluttered, with a small LCD screen for a display. Although it allows for such options as automatic double-sided printing, the 7250's feature set is relatively slim. Then again, this is a printer designed for the dorm room, not the boardroom.
Because Kodak is the manufacturer, a lot of the printer's features are tailored to photos. For example, the device will let you send files to the printer directly from your iPhone or iPod touch. The company also offers ink that dries much faster than most we've tried.
As with most all-in-ones, the 7250's scanner isn't nearly as good as the printer, but it is passable. The device itself is small enough to fit inconspicuously in an average dorm room, but that also means it doesn't have much room for reams and reams of paper. Kodak claims print speeds of 32 pages per minute for black-and-white and 30 pages a minute for colour, but those are almost certainly exaggerated. What the company does deliver on, though is the quality of photo-grade print jobs.