Mono laser printers are nothing new but the elegant F.A. Porsche-designed Kyocera FS680 is easily one of the best.

It has pin-sharp print quality, fast print speed (eight pages per minute) and an installation package that does all the work for you.

This should make the FS680 top of the laser wish-list for small business and home users.

Having cleared the decks of the Styrofoam and cardboard, I had the unit connected in less than five minutes and set about the software installation.

Frankly, I have never found an easier printer to install.

Having dropped the CD into the drive, I sat back waiting for a chance to join in. I soon realised that humans are now almost completely obsolete.

Apart from telling the software which printer port to use, I simply wasn't needed.

This is definitely the printer to choose if you don't want installation hassle.

The technical stuff is almost immaterial because this printer really does what it says on the box thanks to an ultra-fast PowerPC 50MHz processor.

The FS680 delivers true 600 dots per inch output (enhanced to 1200dpi with Kyocera's image resolution technology, KIR2), and comes with 4MB of RAM as standard (36MB maximum).

The toner is priced at just £30 (3,000 pages at five per cent print density), giving a total consumables cost of just 1p per page.

Like me, Windows 98 works very well with the Kyocera FS680. The Windows test print was a real scorcher and gave me an instant view of the FS680's capabilities.

I went through all the procedures which have caused more expensive printers to fail and couldn't find a thing that gave the FS680 a hard time.

Price: £299 Contact: 0118 923 0789 Feelgood factor: 9 out of 10