Deeper Dive: Our Top Tested Picks

• Brother MFC-J4335DW

  Best Value All-in-One Inkjet Printer for Light Duty

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The Brother MFC-J4335DW offers everything you need in a four-function AIO for light-duty use, and it stands out for its combination of performance, price, and running cost. The 150-sheet tray will let you to print up to roughly 600 sheets per month without having to refill it more often than about once a week, while auto duplexing and a bypass tray to feed single sheets add convenience. The combination of a low initial price and low ink cost also means you don't have to print much before the savings makes the total cost of ownership lower than for most less-expensive printers. Paper handling for scanning is typical for the price, with a flatbed plus a 20-page ADF for simplex (one-sided) scanning at up to legal size. Most important, the MFC-J4335DW delivered snappy speeds on our tests for the price, plus more-than-acceptable output quality for most business and home use. 

  Who It's For

  The small size—just 8.1 by 18.1 by 13.2 inches (HWD)—makes the MFC-J4335DW a particularly good fit in a small or home office where space is tight, or as a personal printer in a larger office. Its one important limitation is that the only way to scan both sides of a page is to scan each side manually, so you'll need to look elsewhere if you need to scan multi-page, duplex (two-sided) documents very often. But for one-sided scanning, copying, and faxing, as well as low-cost printing at up to 600 pages per month, the MFC-J4335DW is hard to beat.

  • Pros

    • Duplex printing
    • Fast print speed for the price
    • Fax function
    • Prints from and scans to mobile devices
    • Low price plus low cost per page

  • Cons

    • ADF does not support duplex scanning
    • Text quality is poor at small font sizes and with some stylized fonts
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• Brother MFC-L3780CDW

  Best Value All-in-One Laser Printer for Light Duty

  4.5 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The Brother MFC-L3780CDW offers excellent output quality with relatively low print costs, making it our top recommendation for a color laser all-in-one printer for home or small offices. It prints, scans, copies, and faxes at a relatively fast speed, and its competitive toner costs mean it could have a lower total cost of ownership than many competitors, depending on how much you print. The image quality of the prints, copies, and scans is excellent. And it has loads of wireless options, including NFC. The main potential drawback is its modest 30-sheet multipurpose tray, which could be limiting if you print often on envelopes, labels, or glossy paper.

  Who It's For

  Small or home offices that need excellent quality from an all-in-one printer without upending their budgets should put the MFC-L3780CDW at the top of their lists.

  • Pros

    • Prints, scans, copies, and faxes
    • Relatively fast
    • Competitive toner costs
    • Excellent print, copy, and scan quality
    • 50-page single-pass auto-duplexing ADF
    • Wide range of wireless connection options, including NFC

  • Cons

    • Modest 30-sheet multipurpose tray
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• Canon Pixma G7020 MegaTank All-in-One Printer

  Best All-in-One Inkjet Printer for Heavy Duty

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The Pixma G7020 MegaTank All-in-One is pricier than some models that offer similar performance and features but make you buy ink in cartridges instead of bottles. Print enough, however, and the ink cost savings can make it less expensive in the long run. Both color and mono printing is less than a penny a page, and you don't even pay that much until you run through the ink that comes in the box—enough for 6,000 text pages or 7,700 standard color pages. The G7020 also offers a generous 350-sheet paper capacity, split between a 250-sheet drawer and a 100-sheet rear tray. And for scanning, copying, and faxing, it supplements its letter-size flatbed with an ADF that can handle 35 letter-size or five legal-size sheets. Output quality for text and graphics is suitable for schoolwork and most business use, and photo quality is quite good.

  Who It's For

  The G7020 is a near-ideal fit for a family that needs a four-function AIO for both home use like schoolwork and photos, and for medium-to-heavy-duty print needs in a home office. If you don't expect to print enough over the printer's lifetime to at least break even on the overall cost of ownership compared with an AIO that uses ink cartridges, you're probably better off with the lower-priced alternative. But even in that case, there's something to be said for the convenience of not having to constantly worry about replacing cartridges as each one runs dry on a different schedule.

  • Pros

    • Solid feature set, software bundle, and paper capacity for a bulk-ink model
    • Superb print quality, especially photos
    • Auto-duplexing print engine and ADF
    • Super-low running costs
    • Faster than previous MegaTank models
    • Up to 18,000 pages worth of black ink in the box

  • Cons

    • Last decade's control panel
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• Canon Maxify GX4020

  Best All-in-One Tank Inkjet Printer for Low Running Cost

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  If you need a four-function AIO for a small office or home office, it's easy to find less-expensive ink cartridge-based models with similar speed, output quality, and features as the Canon Maxify GX4020. But for offices that print enough for cost per page to be a major consideration, the savings in initial cost for those printers can be eaten up quickly by ink costs. With the GX4020's running cost of 0.1 cent per mono page and 0.9 cent per color page, it doesn't take many pages per month to hit the break-even point. The GX4020 also offers a solid feature set, including 250-sheet front drawer and a 100-sheet tray at the top rear of the printer (which makes it easy to add or switch paper types). Finally, you can count on text and graphics output quality that's just short of top-tier for business inkjets.

  Who It's For

  The GX4020 is an excellent choice for small offices and home offices, offering better paper handling than our previous top pick (the Epson WorkForce ST-C4100) at only a slightly slower speed. It's a sterling pick, especially if you expect to print enough for the running cost to save you money over time on the total ownership cost.

  • Pros

    • Prints, scans, copies, and faxes
    • Low ink cost
    • Ample paper capacity for a busy small office
    • Automatic duplex printing
    • ADF with manual duplex scanning

  • Cons

    • Expensive
    • Slow compared with cartridge-based competition
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• Brother MFC-J6955DW

  Best All-in-One Inkjet Printer (Tabloid)

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The tabloid-size Brother MFC-J6955DW all-in-one printer is a compelling choice for small offices and workgroups. The MFC-J6955DW offers a solid combination of print speed and paper handling for both printing and scanning at up to tabloid size. Graphics on plain paper delivered vibrant color and smoothly shaded gradients in our tests, while the text quality is good enough for most business purposes. For scanning, the printer offers an automatic document feeder (ADF) that can hold 50 sheets of up to tabloid- or A3-size paper. Even better, it offers single-pass duplex scanning, meaning it can scan both sides of each page at once, for faster copying, scanning, and faxing.

  Who It's For

  If your micro or small office needs the ability to scan at tabloid size, the MFC-J6955DW is the exact right fit.

  • Pros

    • Fast
    • Prints and scans on up to tabloid-size paper
    • Single-pass duplex scanning
    • Three paper trays
    • Supports printing and scanning from mobile devices

  • Cons

    • Can't print on or scan supertabloid-size paper
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• Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 Wireless Color All-in-One Supertank Printer

  Best All-in-One Inkjet Printer for Photos

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  Printing photos at home can quickly get expensive. It's an issue the Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 addresses head-on, slashing costs courtesy of its tank design and low-cost ink. Epson says the ink cost for a borderless 4-by-6-inch photo is 4 cents, roughly one-tenth the cost for an otherwise-equivalent cartridge-based printer. That's a savings of more than $1 for three photos, or more than $100 for every 300. Over the ET-8500's lifetime, you can easily save enough to cover the full price of the printer.

  The six-color ink system is another key feature, adding Photo Black and gray to the usual cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. The extra inks boost color accuracy and deliver subtle gradations for both color and grayscale photos as large as a borderless 8.5 by 11 inches. Paper capacity in the front trays is suitable for printing more than 80 small-format photos and 400 sheets of plain paper per month while holding paper refills to about once a week. An additional 50-page rear tray makes it easy to add or switch to different papers, and the printer even supports printable CDs. AIO functions beyond printing are limited to copying and scanning on the letter-size flatbed.

  Who It's For

  The ET-8500's low running cost makes it the printer of choice for anyone who wants to print lots of high-quality photos and winces at the idea of paying for the "privilege" of constantly changing ink cartridges with a less-expensive printer. Others may consider it worth the high initial cost just to avoid having to deal with six individual cartridges running out of ink, each on its own schedule. Keep in mind, as well, that the ET-8500 can serve as a standard home printer with a low running cost for anything from printing recipes or homework to light-duty home-office needs.

  • Pros

    • Terrific print quality, especially photos
    • Significantly low running costs
    • Two years' warranty with registration
    • Excellent connectivity options

  • Cons

    • High initial purchase price
    • Lacks an automatic document feeder
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• Canon imageClass MF455dw

  Best Mono Laser All-in-One Printer (Small/Midsize Office)

  4.5 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  Canon's imageClass MF455dw impressed us when we reviewed it as the no-compromise mono laser AIO for its category, at not much more money than its competition. It prints, scans, copies, and faxes; prints at very nearly its 40ppm rating for simplex printing; slows down by less than 1ppm for duplex (two-sided) printing; and delivers top-tier mono laser quality for text, graphics, and photos. Even better, its 50-sheet duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF) can keep up with the printer for equally fast copying, and the duplexing works for scanning and faxing, which isn't true of all competitors.

  Paper handling is typical for the category. For printing, the MF455dw offers a 250-sheet drawer and a 100-sheet multi-purpose tray standard, with a $199 optional 550-sheet drawer also available. For scanning, its ADF can handle up to legal size. As icing on an already attractive printcake, it offers conveniences like a 5-inch touch-screen control panel that, among other talents, can show a QR code for easy Wi-Fi Direct connection to a mobile device. 

  Who It's For

  The MF455dw's paper handling makes it appropriate for any small or midsize office or workgroup that churns though about 250 or 300 sheets of paper per week with the base unit, or about 1,000 sheets with the optional drawer added. But it can aim higher, too: The ability to duplex with little loss of speed, plus the duplexing scanner's ability to keep up for copying, makes it a prime candidate for small and midsize offices that need heavy-duty printing, scanning, copying, and faxing. Where too many AIOs are primarily printers that add limited additional functions, the MF455dw does everything well.

  • Pros

    • Prints, scans, copies, and faxes
    • Fast 40ppm rating for both printing and copying
    • Single-pass duplexing ADF for scanning, copying, and faxing
    • Top-tier print output quality
    • Touch-screen control panel
    • Easy Wi-Fi Direct setup

  • Cons

    • With graphics, output quality falls just short of the best available
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• HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f

  Best Color Laser All-in-One Printer (Small/Midsize Office)

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The HP Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f is a workhorse color laser AIO for any small to midsize office. It's rated at 29ppm for both color and mono printing, and its 50-page ADF offers speedy single-pass duplex scanning, helping to reduce the time spent making copies. In addition, it faxes, delivers excellent print quality, and has ample paper capacity for up to medium-duty printing in a midsize office. Two trays divide its standard 300-sheet capacity into 250 sheets in one tray and 50 sheets in the other, while an optional ($199.99) 550-sheet tray is available for a total of 850 pages. Welcome conveniences include a 4.3-inch color touch screen for the control panel.

  Who It's For

  Don't let the "Enterprise" in the name get in the way of considering this HP model for your non-enterprise office. Although packed with a wealth of security and network management features that many small and midsize offices won't care about, there's no reason you have to use them. At heart, the M480f is a solid workhorse for medium-duty mono and color printing, as well as scanning, copying, and faxing. And you might well appreciate some of its features that most printers leave out, including private printing, which lets you send a print job with sensitive information to the printer, and not print it until you enter a PIN at the front panel, instead of leaving it sitting in the output tray where anyone can see it.

  • Pros

    • Robust mobile connectivity
    • Excellent print quality
    • Relatively small footprint
    • Expandable
    • Competitive running costs

  • Cons

    • Somewhat high purchase price
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• Brother MFC-L5915DW

  Best Mono Laser All-In-One Printer (Large Office/Workgroup)

  4.5 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The Brother MFC-L5915DW is one of the more impressive mono laser printers in its class. It delivers fast laser printing and copying, a higher maximum paper capacity than most competition, and a low cost per page, making it an excellent choice for a large office or workgroup. In our tests, output quality was in the top tier for a mono laser. As for speed, the printer is undeniably quick overall, with stellar simplex speeds and only slightly less-impressive duplex ones. Another important feature for a printer that's most likely to be shared in a large office or workgroup is secure printing, which can let you avoid the risk of someone seeing sensitive documents sitting in the output tray before you retrieve them.

  Who It's For

  For most medium or large offices and workgroups with heavy-duty monochrome print needs, the Brother printer offers a winning combination of low running cost and high capacity.

  • Pros

    • Lightning-fast 50ppm rating for both printing and copying
    • High 1,200-by-1,200dpi maximum resolution
    • Roomy legal-size flatbed
    • Single-pass duplexing ADF
    • 5-inch color touch screen control panel
    • Toner cost is just 1.1 cents per page

  • Cons

    • Slower two-sided printing speed
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• HP OfficeJet 250 Mobile All-In-One Printer

  Best All-in-One Portable Printer

  4.0 Excellent

  Why We Picked It

  The HP OfficeJet 250 All-in-One Printer impressed us enough as a portable printer to earn an Editors' Choice award when we reviewed it, but its ability to scan and copy as well as print was only one reason why. Along with typical text quality for an inkjet, it delivers slightly above-par graphics and photos, and it also came in faster on our tests than most print-only portables. And while it lacks duplex (two-sided) printing (like all the single-function competition we've seen), it offers manual duplexing, which prints one side of a stack of pages, waits for you to flip the stack over and reinsert it in the 50-page ADF, and then prints the other side. The simplex (single-sided) scanner offers its own 10-sheet ADF for scanning and copying. Connection choices include USB, Wi-Fi, and Wi-Fi Direct, which lets you print from iOS and Android phones and tablets as well as PCs.

  Who It's For

  If you need to scan documents (including for copying) as well as print them while on the go, the OfficeJet 250 is obviously of interest. Even within those requirements, however, it's not for everyone. Keep in mind that if you only occasionally need to print and scan on the same trip, you could be better off with a separate printer and scanner, which would let you carry just the one you need at any given time. But if you usually need both scanning and printing, or can't predict which one you'll need when, the OfficeJet 250 will be less cumbersome to set up. Plus, it might be lighter than the combined weight of two separate devices.

  • Pros

    • Portable.
    • Scans and copies.
    • Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Direct, and USB connectivity.
    • Rechargeable battery.
    • 50-sheet input tray.
    • 10-sheet ADF.
    • Output quality worthy of a desktop inkjet.
    • High claimed page yields for print cartridges.
    • Lighter than its predecessor.
    • Fast photo printing.

  • Cons

    • Lacks a USB cable.
    • Heavier than most laptops.
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