The printers are ranked in descending order of relative objective quality, as in the graph opposite. The testing methodology and the meaning of each test result is described in the panel below, with example images of the best and worst scorers in each category. Some tests show quite a wide variation from best to worst, whereas others exhibit very little difference. You can get an idea of what a particular printer's score means in real terms by looking at the best and worst images for that test and seeing where the score for that printer lies in relation to those two results. The scores from these tests have been individually weighted according to their effect on overall image quality, then combined into an overall score.
Bold numbers indicate best score for each test .
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