Best printer for 2021 – CNET

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If you need to produce reams of professional-caliber documents — market research reports, business proposals or brochures — you’ll want a laser printer. These higher-end devices deliver near-professional quality that’s noticeably superior to what you’ll get from an inkjet. And they’re less expensive than you might expect, making them a great home printer option. 

The Canon LBP622Cdw is a bit of a one-trick pony, but it handles its one trick well. There’s no scanning or copying capabilities, but this color laser printer prints vivid text and color graphics with high levels of contrast and range, on both white and colored printer paper. And it’s not exorbitantly expensive to run, thanks to its high-capacity toner cartridge — a rarity among laser printer options in this price range. On average, black and white documents cost about 3 cents a page and color docs cost 3.8 cents a page. When it comes to print speed, it’s about average.

The LBP622Cdw features a single-sheet feeder that can take in envelopes and photos while leaving your regular 250-sheet paper tray undisturbed. And you can stack up to 10 envelopes in the main paper tray, which is more than twice as many as most other laser printer options. 

And though this printer’s five-line LCD isn’t a touchscreen, it’s easy to navigate and provides helpful information including the name of the job and person who sent it. There’s also a USB port that allows you to connect and print if the network goes down.

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If space is tight but you need to print shipping labels, shopping lists or homework assignments a few times a month — an increasing likelihood as the coronavirus era drags on — this is your machine. The HP LaserJet Pro M15w is a great fit for practical, nonfussy tasks and its tiny footprint, measuring about 8 inches deep and 14 inches wide, fits perfectly on a bookshelf. And at just 8.4 lbs it makes for a great portable printer for light printing jobs. it connects via Wi-Fi to nearly any device, which means you can print from your phone. If the students in your family can live without a scanner — after all, phone cameras can handle most scanning jobs now — and color output, the LaserJet Pro M15w is a great choice for under $120.

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As far as first-world problems go, waiting for a printer to spit out your document ranks high. The HP OfficeJet Pro 9025 addresses this issue by processing documents and photo prints two to three times faster than its inkjet printer competitors. The printer supports duplex printing including two sided scanning of two sided originals.

It took the OfficeJet Pro 9025 just 8 minutes to print out a 30-page report, with graphics and photos, on plain paper at the “best” quality setting — less than half as long as a print speed as it took other comparably priced inkjet printers. It scanned photos with a printing speed of just 8 seconds compared to 13 to 14 seconds for other printers. And it printed an 8.5×11-inch photo in just about 2 minutes, while the competition consistently took closer to 8 minutes. 

This inkjet printer doesn’t sacrifice speed for quality — at least as far as text is concerned. But photos are another story. Though most color tones looked OK, with suitably high contrast, reds were too brash. And there’s no rear paper feeder, so you’ll have to swap out your plain paper for specialty papers. 

HP offers customers an HP instant ink subscription service for an ink cost that it says is 50% cheaper than buying ink a la carte. There are four monthly plans — 50, 100, 300 or 700 pages — which ostensibly ensure that you have new cartridges and enough ink before your old ones run out.

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The Epson Workforce Pro WF-3730 is full-featured enough to satisfy the demands of a home office, though it’s not as simple to use as others. It’s also a big printer, equipped with two 250-sheet paper trays. That means you can load it up with a ton of paper or dedicate one tray to envelopes or labels. 

For the price, this multifunction printer delivers solid print quality. You get bright, surprisingly colorful and subtle photos on plain paper and photo paper — and especially on Epson’s own stock. The Workforce is also quick: It printed an 8.5×11 photo faster than any comparably-priced printer we tested. And this home office printer option costs less than a host of competitors.