Best All-In-One Printers of 2026

The least expensive printer in this group is also one of the easiest to live with. The PIXMA TS6520 is 14 inches wide and under seven inches tall, so it fits on a bookshelf or the end of a desk, and at 15.4 pounds you can move it without clearing the afternoon. It prints, scans, and copies, prints both sides automatically, and joins either Wi-Fi band.

Setup is the strongest thing about it. Canon's guided routine walks you through joining the network from the printer's own 1.42-inch OLED, which is the step where cheap printers usually fall apart, and dual-band Wi-Fi means a crowded 2.4GHz house isn't a dead end. Output beats the price too: the hybrid ink system keeps text sharp and handles a photo or a school project without embarrassing itself. At 14 pages per minute in black and 9 in color it isn't fast, but it's rarely the bottleneck in a house.

The catch is the ink. Two cartridges run the whole machine, and the color one carries cyan, magenta, and yellow together, so a single empty color takes the other two with it. A few pages a week makes that an occasional irritation; 200 pages a month turns the math against you, and the EcoTank ET-2900 below becomes the cheaper machine. There's no document feeder either, so multi-page scans are a page-by-page job on the glass. What buys it back is the price: nothing else here prints on both sides of a sheet for anything close to this.

Twenty sheets is all the document feeder holds, and that is the detail that decides what this printer is for. Drop in a stack of invoices, hit copy, and walk away — the MFC-J1410DW feeds them itself, which is the one thing a flatbed-only machine cannot do at any price. Around that feeder Brother built a genuinely small printer: 15.4 inches wide, 7.2 inches tall, 16.8 pounds, with a 150-sheet tray, automatic two-sided printing, and a 2.7-inch touchscreen that scans straight to cloud accounts.

It is also the value play of the group. An automatic feeder, duplex printing, and a real touchscreen for less than most of the machines here is a combination nothing else in this roundup matches, and output holds up on plain paper — letters and spreadsheets come out clean at 16 pages per minute in black. Color runs at 9 per minute, which matters if you print flyers and not if you print the occasional map or recipe.

What we keep coming back to is how little it asks of the desk it sits on. It tucks beside a monitor, the tray swallows legal paper for contracts and leases, and scanning to a folder or a cloud drive is a two-tap job on the screen. Wireless is the part to watch: the connection here can need re-establishing after a router restart, and a USB cable to the main computer sidesteps the argument completely.

The lowest running cost in this group belongs to the only printer here you refill from a bottle. Epson ships the ET-2900 with enough ink for up to 3,600 black pages and 6,500 color ones, and the EcoFit bottles are keyed so the magenta cannot go into the black tank. That is the whole argument: a cartridge printer's low purchase price comes back as an ink bill, and this one does not send you one.

It is also the smallest machine on the list — 6.4 inches tall and 9.3 pounds, with a 1.44-inch color screen and a 100-sheet tray — so it disappears onto a shelf in a way the office lasers cannot. Output is good for the money, text is solid, and the flatbed scans and copies without fuss. At 11 pages per minute in black and 6 in color it is the slowest thing here, which is the trade you make for the ink.

Two omissions come with the tank. There is no automatic two-sided printing, so a 40-page report is a manual flip, and the 100-sheet tray wants attention more often than the 225-sheet machines do. Neither hurts if the printer lives beside your desk and most jobs are a few pages. Borderless printing is the bonus nobody mentions: a 4x6 or a full-bleed letter sheet comes out clean.

Eight and a half seconds is what separates a laser from the inkjet on your desk: that is the first page out of the MFC-L2820DW, and it sets the tone for a machine that never makes you wait. After that it runs at 34 pages per minute, duplexes on its own, and pulls from a 250-sheet tray that takes legal paper. There is a 50-sheet document feeder on top, a 2.7-inch touchscreen on the front, and Ethernet as well as dual-band Wi-Fi around the back.

Text is why you buy this one. At 1200 x 1200 dpi, six-point footnotes and dense spreadsheets stay crisp, and nothing dries out between jobs the way ink does — a laser is happiest when you ignore it for three weeks and then print 80 pages. Fax is built in too, which matters the moment a landlord or a clinic insists on one, and copying runs at the same 34 pages per minute as printing.

Where it earns its place is the per-page math, and that is where you need to be honest with yourself. Toner is expensive to buy and cheap to run if you print a lot, and the cartridge can run out faster than the yield figure suggests in a heavy month, so price a high-yield TN830XL into the first year rather than being surprised by it. If your printing is mostly text and the occasional form, nothing else here is built so squarely for it.

Two-sided scanning is the reason this printer earns a place. The LaserJet Pro 3105sdw pulls a stack through its feeder and scans both sides of every sheet, so a double-sided contract becomes one PDF instead of two passes and a shuffle. Around that feeder sits a serious mono laser: 33 pages per minute, a 4.6-second first page, a 250-sheet tray, Ethernet and Wi-Fi, and automatic jam recovery that keeps a long job moving.

Speed is not the issue; the extras are where it gets interesting. Scan-to-email fills in the subject line and the file name on its own, and Precise Print reformats a web page or a long email into something that fits the paper — the first printer feature in years we did not have to talk ourselves into. It is also the least tedious way to empty a filing cabinet, because the feeder does the work instead of your forearms.

The trade-offs are plain. It prints black only, so color work goes to the inkjets above, and the introductory cartridge is rated for about 1,000 pages, which in a busy office is a first month rather than a first year. Beyond that the exchange is straightforward: give up color, plan on buying toner early, and in return you get a document machine that never asks you to flip a page by hand.