Best Home Printers of 2026

Feed a stack into the top of the TR7120 and it comes out scanned or copied at the other end — no lifting the lid, no re-aligning every page. That auto document feeder is the reason this Canon makes the list at all: it's the least expensive machine here with one, and it turns a twenty-minute copying job into a five-minute one.

What we didn't expect at this price is the pace. Fourteen pages per minute in black and nine in color, automatic duplexing, and dual-band Wi-Fi that can use 5 GHz when the 2.4 band is crowded — that's a faster, better-connected machine than several costing more. The display is short on pixels but the menus are shallow, so nobody will need the manual to find the copy button.

Paper handling is better than the price suggests: envelopes and cardstock up to 220gsm go through the same feed, which is more than most budget all-in-ones will admit to. The two-cartridge system is the compromise — one tri-color cartridge carries cyan, magenta, and yellow, so a single empty color takes the other two with it. In a house that prints color often, that's a slow tax on every replacement.

Thirty-six pages per minute sounds like a spec-sheet boast until you're printing a fifty-page packet the night before it's due. The DCP-L2640DW is built for households where paper is a chore: a 250-sheet tray, a 50-sheet document feeder, automatic duplexing, and Ethernet as well as Wi-Fi. It's also the only machine here that scans at any real speed — 23.6 images per minute in black — which matters when the feeder is full.

Text at 1200 x 1200 dpi is crisp enough for anything short of a photo book, and toner is the only consumable to think about, so there are no nozzles to clog and no color cartridge drying out while you print black. We particularly appreciate the Ethernet port: wireless setup is the recurring gripe about nearly every machine on this page, and a cable ends the argument permanently. The control panel is plain, the menus are short, and the whole thing feels like office equipment in the good sense.

The trade-off is permanent: no color, ever. If a school project needs a red heading, this machine can't help, so households with young children should think hard before choosing it. The other question is durability — failures cluster in the first few months rather than year five, which makes registering the one-year warranty worth the five minutes it takes.

Four bottles, each keyed so it only fits its own tank, and Epson rates the set at 3,600 black and 6,500 color pages — roughly three years of ordinary household printing before you buy ink again. That is the entire argument for the EcoTank, and it's a strong one: the ET-2903 sits on this list because running costs, not print quality, are what make most people regret a printer.

The machine around the tanks is pleasantly ordinary. A flatbed scanner and a 100-sheet tray handle the everyday jobs, the body is 12.5 inches deep and 9.3 pounds, and borderless printing is there for photos. The 1.44-inch screen is small enough that the phone app is the better control panel — do setup from the app and treat the panel as a status light.

The tank only pays off if the volume is real. At twenty pages a month, a cartridge machine costs less to buy and does the same work; the savings accrue to households printing a couple of hundred pages a month, or printing color regularly for school. For that family the ET-2903 turns a monthly ink errand into a once-a-year one.

Thirteen and a half inches wide, six and a quarter tall, nine pounds on the scale: the M110w is the only printer here you can pick up with one hand and park on a bookshelf. If floor space is the constraint — a hall table, the gap beside the router, a shelf above the desk — this is the machine that makes the problem disappear.

Laser printing is what makes the small size work. Twenty-one pages per minute, a first page in about eight seconds, and a 150-sheet tray that holds more than most of the inkjets here; text at 600 x 600 dpi is crisp and dry the instant it lands, which matters when you're printing labels or a form you need to sign and hand back. We like that there's nothing to maintain: one toner cartridge, no print head to clog, no color to run dry while you print black.

It prints. Scanning and copying happen through your phone's scanning app, which is fine for a receipt and joyless for a thirty-page document, and the print-only design is the honest trade for the footprint. The cartridge in the box is a starter, so price a replacement toner before you decide the machine looks like a bargain.

The cheapest machine here is also one of the most complete: color printing, scanning, copying, and automatic two-sided printing, all for less than anything else in this group. That combination is why the Envy 6155 is our budget pick rather than a footnote — you give up speed and long-term confidence, not features.

Setup is genuinely easy, helped by a 2.4-inch color touchscreen that's more legible than the panels on machines costing more, and by dual-band Wi-Fi that doesn't need a cable to get started. At 11.2 pounds it moves between rooms without a second thought, and 10 pages per minute in black and 7 in color is fine for homework and slow for anything bigger.

The Instant Ink trial is the part to think through before you buy. Three months of subscription ink is genuinely useful if your volume is steady; afterwards the plan only makes sense while your monthly printing matches its page allowance, and light printers end up paying for pages they never print. If you print in bursts, buy cartridges as you need them and skip the subscription entirely.

A full ream goes into the HL-L2405W's 250-sheet tray and stays there for weeks. That's the sort of thing you only appreciate after a year of topping up a 100-sheet inkjet twice a week, and it's the reason this plain black box stays on our list. Thirty pages per minute and an 8.5-second first page mean it never makes you stand there.

It's a print-only machine and unapologetic about it: no color, no touchscreen, nothing you didn't ask for. What you get instead is a clean 1200 x 1200 dpi text engine, dual-band Wi-Fi with a USB port as a fallback when the network misbehaves, and Brother's TN830 toner, the same family the DCP-L2640DW uses, so supplies are easy to find. Setup is the least predictable part of the experience; the wired route works when wireless doesn't.

Against the HP M110w it's the roomier and faster machine — 250 sheets to 150, 30 pages a minute to 21, and less money — at the cost of a bigger footprint and 15 pounds of weight. Against the DCP-L2640DW it's the same printing engine in a plainer box with fewer extras. For a household that prints pages off the internet and signs documents on a phone, this is the sensible, unexciting choice.