Unlike some of the competition, this printer is smartly designed with six ink tanks, so you only need to replace individual colors when they run out. Along with standard ink colors, this all-in-one printer uses photo blue ink, which improves image detail by reducing gradation and improving the appearance of shadows. It also has SD card printing, so you can print almost directly from your camera.
Related: The Best Wireless Printers. Though technically neither a laser nor an inkjet printer, the HP Smart Tank Plus uses a cartridge-free ink tank. One bottle of ink should last for approximately two years, making this ideal for anyone who needs to frequently print graphics. In addition to printing in black and color, this printer copies, scans, and faxes.
It even has a page document feeder, a sheet tray, and a flatbed scanner. Along with wireless printing, this all-in-one is compatible with Alexa devices, allowing you to print a document with your voice.
But should you need to set up a more complex job, the 2. Always in a rush? With a maximum resolution of 1, x 1, dots per inch dpi , you can print professional-looking brochures, handouts, and other documents in no time. Better yet, with a sheet input tray, you'll rarely run out of paper. This printer can also fax, which may not be essential for every office, but is important to have for businesses such as medical practices it even sends double-sided documents.
With a page duplex automatic document feeder as well as a flatbed scanner, this all-in-one lets you scan everything from standard papers to smaller receipts and invoices. Loaded with features, the Lexmark MC color laser printer can print, copy, scan, and fax.
It can also print wirelessly through Ethernet or USB connection. Even more, this machine has a generous amount of ink in each cartridge: the black ink cartridge can print pages, while the cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges can print up to pages. Best of all, it prints quietly at a maximum of 49 decibels, which is even quieter than most modern dishwashers.
It has a small footprint at just Just note that this machine prints, copies, and scans but does not fax. A versatile choice, this printer supports all types of paper including envelopes, labels, and postcards. The unit has a rich set of features and is outfitted with a duplexer for two-sided printing, an automatic document feeder ADF for scanning and copying multipage documents, and fax functionality. Plus, this printer is built tough enough for the home or the office, thanks to a duty cycle of 20, printed pages per month.
We loved the printer's above-average print speeds; razor-sharp text; and rich, detailed graphics. Fax capability is an unexpected but welcome addition to a unit at this price, and the single-side copying was the fastest we've seen in a laser all-in-one. The HP LaserJet Mfdw has some rough spots, like a clumsy control panel and an unintuitive mobile app, but the overall performance is very good for the affordable price.
As an all-around laser printer for the home, this is a great option. When it comes to picking any type of printer the basics are the same. You are probably already aware that laser printing produces professional looking text documents at a lower cost per page than similar inkjet models. But there are other features to consider. All in one functions like scanning and copying are included in all of the models on the above list, but one less common function is fax capability.
If you work with medical or legal documents, faxing is indispensable, and you'll need a printer that includes it. Print speed refers to how quickly a printer will complete a page in a document. In our reviews we test this capability, measured in pages per minute. If you need to print frequently, or in high volumes, faster print speeds are worth paying for.
Print quality is another concern, though the majority of laser printers offer some of the best print quality you can get, with sharp and detailed letter forms that leave documents looking professional. What you won't get on most laser printers is color and photo printing capability. Operating costs for the Mdw are low. In addition, these estimates may not line up with the reality of how you print. The slot is motorized, so when you slide an envelope or label sheet into the slot, rollers grab it and suck it into the guts of the printer, where it sits until you send a print job.
When we crammed the main paper tray with as many as 50 extra sheets, a warning popped up on the control panel saying the tray was overstuffed, and the machine refused to print. In this situation, other printers would try, fail, and jam. When we put exactly pages in, it printed normally; same with just a single sheet in the tray.
In our tests, at default settings, text documents from the Mdw looked crisp, with dark black text that was readable down to 2 points. Results were also very good when we printed business-style graphics and household miscellany like comics, coloring book pages, and crosswords. The prints were a touch washed out, but we got accurate colors, lots of detail, and relatively low noise. HP claims the Mdw can print as fast as 22 pages per minute in black and white.
In our testing, it maxed out around 17 pages per minute when printing a PDF consisting of mixed text and graphics. Duplexing dropped the speed further, to 11 pages per minute.
Again, that was roughly equal to the rate we saw from the closest competition. When printing via Wi-Fi, it took around 24 seconds from our pressing the print button to the first sheet coming out of the feeder. Most buyers should be prepared to shell out for replacement toner within the first year or so, but the replacement point could come a lot sooner for people using their printer in a home office. Color laser printers are bigger and heavier than their monochrome counterparts because they use four toner cartridges rather than just one.
In October , HP released a firmware update version that prevents the printer from working with non-HP toner cartridges. If your printer was set to automatically update, this change happened in the background and may have broken compatibility with third-party toner. HP vaguely acknowledged the issue in a statement the next month , and has published a guide on how to turn off automatic updates. You may be able to revert to older firmware , but do so at your own risk.
For people with basic needs—printing taxes, recipes, boarding passes, and so on—its automatic duplex capability, large sheet paper tray, reliable paper handling, speedy printing, and low per-page costs make it an excellent choice despite a few quirks.
With a machine this straightforward, physical setup is quick. You have only to remove the packing tape, insert the toner cartridge, adjust the paper-tray guides, and load some paper. Getting the printer on Wi-Fi is a little more complicated to do with this model than with some other printers because the HL-LDW employs a decidedly old-school user interface that consists of a one-line monochrome LED display and an array of rubber buttons.
Even so, we were able to connect it to our network within a few minutes, and the printer reliably maintained a connection throughout testing—even several rooms away and a floor below our router. However, you may have problems getting the printer to complete Cloud Print registration; we certainly did. With that done, the printer was able to get on Cloud Print right away and worked flawlessly for the remainder of our testing.
Tax forms and other documents with tiny fonts all the way down to 2 points were perfectly readable, and larger headers came out with crisp edges and dark centers. All in all, this printer should be more than adequate for printing text-heavy documents. Test graphics and photos, on the other hand, were merely mediocre at default settings, as some light banding was visible in solid-color areas, and graphics appeared a little grainy.
The output is good enough for personal use or internal business documents, and you can improve it with adjustments to toner density and resolution settings at the expense of toner longevity if you need to hand out documents to clients.
Brother claims the HL-LDW can print at up to 32 pages per minute, 5 pages per minute faster than the machine it replaces. We clocked it at 25 pages per minute while printing single-sided PDFs and 12 pages per minute while using duplexing—faster than our color top pick, the HP Mdw, in both cases. As with its now-discontinued predecessor our top pick for the past two years , one of the best things about the HL-LDW is its low cost of ownership.
Operating costs are low, too: Even accounting for drum wear, each print will run you about 3. However, like most other laser printers, the HL-LDW comes with a puny starter cartridge good for just pages. This printer is extremely small and light.
At just Our test unit came in a very banged-up box thanks, FedEx that released a confetti of shattered styrofoam when we opened it. We hopped on the phone, and a Brother customer support agent quickly diagnosed the problem: a plastic guide in the paper path that had gotten knocked out of place in transit. If you work from home, run a home business, or simply want the flexibility of a laser printer that can also scan and copy, we recommend the Brother MFC-LDW. This powerful machine marries the basic utility and reliability of our Brother HL-LDW budget pick with the versatility of a flatbed scanner and a single-pass duplexing automatic document feeder.
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