Best Home Printers In 2022

When it comes to ongoing affordability, you can’t go wrong with an inkjet printer that uses ink tanks. In this case, this feature provides enough ink to generate 7,500 black and white pages or 6,00 full-color pages ink before the tanks need to be refilled—and this printer comes with a full ink set. (So cross printer ink off your expense list for up to two years.)

This all-in-one Epson printer can serve as a photocopier or scanner. As a printer, however, it’ll generate black and white or full-color documents on Letter size paper. It’ll also generate professional-quality prints of your favorite images in a wide range of sizes (when you use premium photo paper).

The front paper tray holds up to 250 sheets, while the 2.4-inch full-color display informs you of exactly what the printer is doing and which functions are activated. As for print speed, it’s not the fastest printer on the market. That said, it will generate up to 15 pages per minute (B&W) or eight pages per minute (full-color). Printing 8.5 x 11-inch photos will take a bit longer.

You’ll appreciate the printer’s ability to generate two-sided documents as well as its wireless printing capabilities. The printer’s biggest drawback is that it does not support Legal size paper. While it will accommodate smaller size photo papers, for example, the maximum paper size the printer can handle is 8.5 x 11 inches. In the mid-price range, this Epson printer will nicely meet your expectations and needs.

As an “all-in-one” inkjet printer, the HP Envy 7955e is capable of printing in full-color or black-and-white. It easily handles printing documents as well as close to professional photo lab quality prints. It supports both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for wireless connectivity, as well as Ethernet and USB cable connectivity. For functionality beyond printing, the HP Envy 7955e has a built-in copier, scanner and fax machine.

This printer relies on using two separate HP 64 (or HP 64 XL) ink cartridges. Print features include two-sided and borderless printing, as well as the ability to print wirelessly from any smartphone or tablet. For print speed, it clocks in at 10 pages per minute, and supports any paper size (up to 8.5 x 14 inches, including labels and envelopes).

Controlling this printer can be done directly from your computer, via a free mobile app, or by using the printer’s own 2.7-inch full-color touchscreen. It has two paper trays and will automatically choose which paper to use based on the printing task at hand. The document feeder (for the copier, flatbed scanner, or fax) can hold up to 35 pages.

The scanner’s resolution is up to 1200 dpi, and the copier speed is between five and 19 pages per minute, depending on whether you’re copying black-and-white text, full-color documents, or photos.

Purchasing a color laser printer and keeping it filled with compatible toner, by default, will cost a lot more than a full-color inkjet printer. However, depending on your home office printing needs, laser-printed output will look more professional than business correspondence or other documents printed on an inkjet printer.

The HP Color LaserJet M479fdw offers wireless printing capabilities, supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity, as well as USB and Ethernet wired connectivity. It has a built-in 4.3-inch touchscreen display for controlling the printer, but you can also also use voice commands (via Amazon Alexa) to control the printer’s functionality.

As a multifunction device, this printer offers single-pass/two-sided printing, copying, and scanning. In terms of printing speed, it can handle up to 27 pages per minute (in black and white or full color). Being a laser printer, the HP LaserJet M479fdw is not designed to be a home photo printer. Instead, it’s designed for higher-capacity document printing needs.

From a convenience standpoint, you’ll discover a built-in 150-sheet output bin and a 300-sheet input capacity for the paper tray. You’ll need to keep this printer stocked with both an HP414A and HP414X toner cartridge (sold separately on Amazon, for example, for $110 and $172, respectively). The HP414A cartridges will generate approximately 2,100 printed pages, while the HP414X will generate approximately 7,500 printed pages before needing to be replaced.

If you’re willing to spend a bit more for a color laser printer, this one is designed to handle up to 4,000 pages per month in terms of recommended monthly volume.

Budget-friendly refillable tanks are the most interesting development in printer technology during the last decade. Epson pioneered the cartridge-free system and the EcoTank ET-3760 represents the latest generation of the technology. The long term cost savings are significant.

While the earliest versions of the EcoTank had its ink tanks awkwardly bolted onto the side, the EcoTank is now built directly into the front of the printer, making it easier to refill and see how much ink you have left—not that you’ll have to worry about that too much since the ink that comes in the box should last you for about two years (or 7,500 pages, whichever comes first).

Features include wireless printing, voice-activated printing, direct printing from your smartphone, copying, scanning, automatic two-sided printing and direct SD card printing. This model is particularly convenient because of the 30-sheet ADF on top in addition to the 150-sheet main tray. Families with multiple people who have their own printing requirements for work, school and household tasks will find this printer offers versatility, ease-of-use and ongoing affordability.

For less than $200, this is Canon’s answer to an economical inkjet printer. Instead of using costly ink cartridges, it takes advantage of large ink tanks. These tanks hold the same amount of ink as 30 individual ink cartridges—which will generate up to 7,000 pages.

In addition to being able to accommodate a wide range of paper sizes (and photo paper), the Canon G3200 works wirelessly with computers, smartphones and tablets. (It’s AirPrint compatible.)

Yes, the Canon G3200 is a low-cost printer than generates beautiful full-color and black-and-white printed pages; however, as it can also serve as a competent all-in-one device with its photocopier and full-page scanner.

You can easily spend a small fortune on a photo printer, but if you’re not a professional photographer, you don’t have to break the bank. There are a lot of affordable inkjets that do a wonderful job printing photos. The Canon Pixma Pro-200 isn’t the least expensive option, but it’s an excellent model that creates beautiful borderless photos. It can also generate oversized prints—up to 13 x 39-inches.

Unlike many popular printers, this model isn’t an all-in-one. It’s a dedicated photo printer that employs high-end Full-Photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering nozzles to generate a resolution of 4,800 x 2,400 dpi. The printer uses eight independent color cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, photo cyan, photo magenta, light gray, and gray) to create gorgeous prints that rival the best printers costing as much as $2,000. Keep in mind, the ongoing cost of replenishing eight ink cartridges will get expensive. What you’re paying for is the convenience of being able to generate professional-quality photo prints in your home or studio—without needing to outsource to a photo lab.

You can connect to the printer via Wi-Fi, USB or Ethernet, though it conspicuously lacks a media card reader for directly accessing photos from your camera’s memory card. This printer isn’t optimal if you need to do a lot of text-only printing. It’s best used as a dedicated photo printer.

If you’re looking for a true printing workhorse, look no further than the Canon Maxify GX7020. This AIO printer uses high-capacity ink tanks that’ll generate up to 6,000 pages of black and white printing or 14,000 color pages before you need to refill the ink tanks. This brings the per page printing cost down to just $0.02 cents. The printer even comes with enough ink to generate 18,000 black-and-white pages and 14,000 color pages.

In addition to being easy to use, the Canon Maxify GX7020 serves as a photocopier, scanner and fax machine. However, from a printing standpoint, what helps to set it apart is its 600-sheet plain paper capacity. It has three paper trays (two with a 250-sheet capacity in the front and one with a 100-sheet capacity in the back). This means you can use up to three different stocks of paper without constant refilling and changing. You can also use the rear paper tray to print envelopes, labels, or generate printed pages as long as 47 inches.

As a photo printer, you’ll be able to create beautiful, professional-quality prints (up to 8.5 x 11 inches). This takes about 90 seconds per page and requires premium photo paper, but the end result is worth the wait.

When it comes to photocopying or faxing, at the top of the printer is a 50-sheet single pass duplex auto document feeder, so you can create two-sided copies of multi-page documents easily. As you’d expect, the Maxify GX7020 supports wireless printing (with AirPrint support). The built-in full-color touchscreen provides a very simple user interface to manage everything.

Wide-format printers tend to cost a premium, but they’re indispensable if you find yourself needing to print oversized documents or enjoy printing and hanging your own power-size photos around the house. The Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 accommodates truly large print jobs, and is able to make borderless prints up to 13 x 19-inches—at an eye-popping 5760 x 1440 pixel resolution.

Thanks to six individual color cartridges (with extra red and gray), the XP-15000 creates superb prints suitable for framing around the house, or it can easily print creatives for a small business. It includes a 50-sheet tray for specialty media, like card stock. There’s also a 200-sheet tray that can be used for automatic two-sided printing.

You can control the printer from the user-friendly 2.4-inch color LCD, and it supports both wired and wireless printing. (There’s no media slot for printing directly from your camera’s SD card, unfortunately).

There’s nothing worse than sending a bunch of print jobs to your printer and having it fail to connect—or get halfway through printing and have your ink cartridges run out. The HP Envy 6055 All-in-One Printer circumvents both common printer issues. Its “self-healing” dual-band Wi-Fi is able to recover from common connectivity issues and can connect on either a 2.4 or 5 GHz band network (many printers can only connect to the slower 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band).

If you opt into HP’s Instant Ink program, the brand will send you replacement ink cartridges automatically whenever you run low, for as little as $2.99 per month, based on the number of pages you print. The Envy 6055 is also a capable photo printer, able to print borderless images. Plus, it can copy and scan while sending documents directly to Google Drive or Dropbox if you choose. In all, it’s a hassle-free printer for those who don’t want to think too hard about anything. Its biggest drawback is that it relies on ink cartridges instead of high-capacity ink tanks.

All-in-one devices are great for people who move a lot of paper around, but what if you rarely (or never) need to scan or copy? In fact, even color ink might be overkill for some people. The HP Neverstop Laser Printer 1001NW is a monochrome laser printer for anyone with non-color printing needs. It has onboard Wi-Fi and its 21 ppm (pages per minute) print speed is considerably better than many comparable inkjet printers.

With a footprint that’s not much larger than a sheet of 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you’ll be hard pressed to find a printer that does more in such a small space. The best part? Instead of toner cartridge refills that cost hundreds of dollars, the 1001nw uses a refillable toner tank that gives you 2,500 pages per refill (the device ships with 5,000 pages worth of toner in the tank) and costs under $30 for a 2-pack.  

Keep in mind, a laser printer uses a totally different printing technology than an ink jet printer. Thus, in addition to greater printing speed, a laser printer’s output won’t smudge as easily, and text on the printed page will often look sharper. Black and white laser printers in general are much more affordable than the newer full-color laser printers, and the toner cartridges last significantly longer than inkjet cartridges.

Brother positions this as an all-in-one printer with a very low lifetime cost and extremely long ink lifetime. This is super important for a home office printer. On any inkjet printer, the ink cost is easily the most expensive part of the equation and nobody likes frequently having to swap ink cartridges. The Brother MFC-J995DW’s innovative “INKvestment Tank” ink system is key to the printer’s low cost and long ink life.

Essentially, each oversized cartridge transfers its contents to an internal ink storage tank that lets you print substantially more pages for uninterrupted printing. This isn’t a refillable supertank-style printer, but it’s close. And you get a year’s worth of ink right in the box with the initial purchase.

The ink system is so good that it’d be easy to overlook the printing capabilities, but that would be a mistake. This is an excellent home office printer. Print quality is excellent, supported by a 150-page paper tray, automatic two-sided full-duplex printing and a 20-sheet automatic document feeder. Everything is controllable from a friendly 2.7-inch color touchscreen or mobile app. You can also print wirelessly. It’s hard to find a better overall printer value for your home office.

While inkjet printers have a lot of advantages—namely the potential for better image quality in photo prints—color laser printers are quieter, faster and work better for text documents. If that’s what you’re looking for, the HP Color LaserJet Pro M454dw is an excellent choice. It’s especially well equipped for low-to-mid volume home offices and to meet the general printing needs of most families.

You get Ethernet, USB and Wi-Fi along with AirPrint, plus other common connectivity solutions. For example, you can print directly from USB flash drives, though there’s no media card reader. Two paper trays accommodate up to 300 sheets at once, and you can expand that to 550 sheets with an optional expansion paper drawer.

Because this is a laser printer, it’s relatively fast. You can print color documents as quickly as 17 pages per minute, and print quality is quite good—though photo prints lag in quality behind a good inkjet, like the Canon PIXMA Pro-200.

In general, a color laser printer will do an amazing job at printing full-color (or black and white) documents, graphics, graphs and charts, for example, but is not designed to produce photo lab-quality prints from your digital images (even if you use special photo paper in the printer).

The Canon SELPHY CP1300 is custom built for one thing and one thing only—to deliver snapshot printouts and convenient printing from your smartphone or other mobile devices. With its optional battery pack and petite size, you can take it with you to photo shoots and AirPrint directly from your phone or tablet. Alternatively, you can plug in a USB stick or your camera’s memory card.

While the SELPHY can give you instantly dry, archival quality prints via its dye sublimation printing on Canon paper (rated for up to 100 years), you can also switch out the standard 4 x 6-inch prints with square photo label paper that lets you print instant stickers. It’s a great way to get your prints off your phone or camera and into the real world.

For a truly portable and wireless photo printing experience, consider the ultra-small and battery powered Polaroid Hi-Print Pocket Photo Printer. This device will generate 2 x 3-inch, full-color prints on special, sticky-back Polaroid paper—no ink cartridges are required.

The printer bundle comes with two 20-sheet paper packages. Additional 20-sheet paper packs cost $17 (on Amazon). This printer is great for creating tiny prints right from your smartphone or tablet from just about anywhere. The printer uses a built-in rechargeable battery for power.

This is a newly redesigned version of Canon’s iP110 portable printer. It offers a bunch of useful new features, including AirPrint compatibility (for use with Macs, iPhones and iPads), a USB-C port, a 50 sheet paper tray and a 1.44-inch OLED display (which provides menu options for making printing easier).

The Pixma TR150 offers the ability to print in full color or black and white. It’s an inkjet printer that uses replaceable ink cartridges to print on 8.5 x 11-inch or 8.5 x 14-inch paper. An optional battery pack (sold separately for $100), allows you to set up and print virtually anywhere. When powered by battery, the printer will generate up to 330 printed pages per charge.

Print up to nine pages per minute from this compact and extremely portable printer that measures just 12.7 x 7.3 x 2.6 inches. When not in use, this printer can be stored and easily transported in a briefcase or carry-on, so you can use it at home, in a car, within a hotel room or just about anywhere your remote work activities take you.

When it comes to home use, a sublimation printer is basically the same as a full-color inkjet printer, but it can also use specialized ink and sublimation paper to create designs that can then be transferred to other items, such as coffee mugs or T-shirts, using pressure and heat.

Keep in mind, if you’re using a regular inkjet printer that supports this functionality, you must flush out the traditional ink from the printer before adding the specialized sublimation ink (or vice versa).

The Epson EcoTank ET-2760 does away with traditional ink cartridges and uses high-capacity ink tanks instead. This means zero cartridge waste and the ability to print upwards of 7,500 B&W pages or 6,000 color pages before needing to replenish the ink. What this means for traditional paper-based printing is that your cost drops down to about $0.01 per full-color page.

If you plan to use the printer for sublimation printing, you can order the special ink that’s required from several different companies, such as MerryWork, via Amazon for about $24 per set (which includes one bottle of black, red, blue and yellow ink). Special sublimation paper is also sold by a wide range of companies like A-Sub, and it comes in different paper sizes.

A pack of 110 sheets of 8.5-inch x 11-inch sublimation paper will cost around $20. Because this is heat-transfer paper, to transfer what you print to a T-shirt, mug or another compatible material will require a heat and pressure source, such as an iron, a sublimation heat press or a specialized device for imprinting on mugs, for example.

In addition to the printer itself being affordable, when you purchase compatible toner cartridges (as opposed to genuine Brother cartridges), you’ll save a fortune over time. This monochrome printer lacks a bunch of the advanced features (like wireless printing) that you’d find in other printers. It does, however, offer a print resolution up to 2400 x 600 dpi. As for speed, how does 27 pages per minute sound? The paper tray holds 250 sheets of Letter or Legal size paper.