The Best All-in-One Printers
The HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e is your best option because it’s easy to set up and cheap to run, it works with all kinds of devices, it produces beautiful prints and scans, and it looks great doing all of that.
HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e
The HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e is easier to set up than any other inkjet we’ve tested. With its high-yield cartridges, it quickly prints crisp text documents and glossy photos at an affordable cost of 3.2¢ per page in black or 12.8¢ per page in color. Its scans are crisp and quick, and its clean, compact design looks great in any office.
If you opt to use HP’s Instant Ink program (a three-month trial is included with your initial purchase), the cost of each color page drops to as little as 4¢, including glossies. Plus, enrolling in the Instant Ink program extends the warranty to two years.
But we recommend weighing your options carefully before choosing to use Instant Ink, or the “free” HP+ membership it entails. Doing so not only permanently locks you in to using official HP ink cartridges, but it also requires your printer to be connected to the internet at all times.
HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 3301fdw
The HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 3301fdw has an easy-to-use, smartphone-style touch interface and a 21st-century mobile app that together make daily use of this printer far less frustrating in comparison with other models we’ve tried.
It produces sharp black text, vibrant full-color graphics, and photos good enough for a school report. Our inkjet pick, the 9125e, can output slightly better photos, and it can also make glossy prints. But this laser printer won’t clog if you use it infrequently.
The 3301fdw is also fast—HP claims up to 26 pages per minute, while we saw 22 ppm in the real world—and it can print on envelopes, labels, and other odd-size media thanks to a handy bypass slot.
The Brother MFC-J4335DW is the printer to get if you don’t have big productivity demands and need a cheap multifunction printer with affordable supply costs.
It comes with a year’s worth of ink out of the box, and upgrading to Brother’s high-yield cartridges allows you to print at a cost of 1¢ per page for monochrome and 5.2¢ for color, which makes this model significantly cheaper to run than our other picks.
In our tests, this printer reliably produced crisp text down to a font size of 3 points, as well as sharp, realistic glossy images. But its slower scan speeds and easily smudged copy-paper photo prints can be bothersome when you’re on deadline and need to produce a clean copy, stat.
Like most Brother printers, the MFC-J4335DW is clunky to install because it comes with unintuitive website-based installers that are difficult to navigate. The archaic design of its tiny display screen and navigation buttons marginally adds to the setup stress, and the process can take up to 25 minutes before the printer is up and running, in contrast to our main inkjet pick’s 10-minute install.
Brother MFC-L3780CDW
Upgrade to a business-oriented color laser AIO like the Brother MFC-L3780CDW if your work finds you printing and scanning all day, every day. It prints and scans more quickly, sharply, and reliably than inkjet alternatives.
It includes robust admin and security settings designed for situations that may involve sensitive data, such as faxing legal documents or emailing a scanned driver’s license over Wi-Fi.
The toner runs you nearly the cost of a new laser printer, but it’ll easily last you twice as long as inkjet cartridges that suck up ink and dry out between uses. Though most home offices don’t need this kind of upgrade, the MFC-L3780CDW hits the sweet spot if you run a business with modest printing and paper-handling needs, or if you’ve grown exasperated with your inkjet AIO’s failings.
