Best Inkjet Printers of 2026

Two hundred twenty-five sheets is the number that decides this one. Most home inkjets hold a hundred, so a long report plus a stack of tax documents means reloading halfway; the OfficeJet Pro 8139 takes both. Add the highest rated engine in this set — 20 ppm black, 10 ppm color, an 18-second first page — and you have a machine we think of as a daily-driver office printer rather than a household one.

The rest of the kit matches the ambition: print, copy, scan and fax, a 2.7-inch color touchscreen with phone-style navigation, automatic two-sided printing, and a document feeder for multi-page jobs. The touchscreen is the detail you'll use every day; running a copy from a proper menu is a different experience from pecking at arrow keys.

Ink is where the arithmetic gets interesting. The printer ships with a year of Instant Ink, and a subscription only pays off if your printing is steady; a household that prints in bursts should price the standard HP 923 cartridges against a monthly plan before the trial converts to a paid one.

For a home office two rooms from the router, the Ethernet port is the quiet win — a cable ends the argument, and a self-correcting Wi-Fi claim is not something we take on faith when a wired option exists.

Epson rates the ink in the box at 3,600 black pages and 6,500 color, and the EcoFit bottles are keyed so a refill can't go into the wrong tank. We ran the arithmetic against the cartridge machines here: at 30 pages a week, the included ink covers more than two years, which is how a tank printer's higher price turns into the cheaper machine.

The hardware around those tanks is deliberately plain: 11 pages per minute in black, 6 in color, a 100-sheet tray, a flatbed scanner, and a 1.44-inch color screen small enough to make setup prompts a squint. At 9.3 pounds and 12.5 inches deep, it's the lightest printer here and fits a shelf a full-size all-in-one would dominate.

What settles it for us is the cost curve, not the feature list. This is the printer for a household running homework, invoices, and the odd photo every week that is tired of buying cartridges — the saving is real, but it arrives over months rather than on day one, so the higher price only makes sense if you'll actually print.

There's no automatic two-sided printing or document feeder listed for this model, so a double-sided report means two passes and a manual flip; if that's a weekly chore, the Brother or the HP handles it. Photo output is better than a tank printer's price suggests, and documents come out clean.

The lowest-priced printer here still does automatic two-sided printing, connects on the less-crowded 5 GHz band, and gives you a 1.42-inch OLED panel instead of the usual segmented display. Rated at 14 ppm black and 9 ppm color with a 7.5-second first page, the PIXMA TS6520 doesn't read like the place where corners were cut.

The budget shows up in the ink bay. It takes two cartridges, a pigment black and a tri-color, so when cyan runs dry the magenta and yellow go with it. That's the trade for the low entry price, and it's the reason we steer anyone printing more than a couple of dozen pages a week toward the tank printer instead.

Everything else is sensible. The flatbed handles school forms and ID copies, borderless printing on 4 x 6 photo paper saves a trip to the drugstore, and at 15.4 pounds it's light enough to move when you reorganize. Setup, for once, is the easy part: the app walks through connection and alignment.

This is the compact pick: 11.2 pounds, a 100-sheet tray, and a body that tucks onto a shelf where a full-size all-in-one won't go. Rated at 10 ppm black and 7 ppm color it isn't fast, but it adds automatic two-sided printing, so the paper bill stays low even in a tight space.

Print quality is better than the size suggests. Photos come out clean enough to pin up, and the 2.4-inch color touchscreen makes copying a two-tap job rather than a menu expedition — a small thing you'll notice every time you use it.

Ink is worth reading before you buy. The setup cartridges are rated around 120 black pages and 75 color pages, and the three-month Instant Ink trial turns into a paid plan unless you cancel. If your printing is light and steady, the subscription can be the cheaper route; if it's occasional, buy HP 68 cartridges as you need them.

The TR7120 is the Canon to pick when the feeder matters more than the price: an auto document feeder, automatic two-sided printing, 14 ppm black and 9 ppm color, and a 100-sheet tray. Against the budget Canon in this guide, the extra money buys the feeder and a taller, sturdier body.

Setup is quick and the output is clean — text is crisp, photos are vivid on glossy paper, and legal-size media up to 8.5 x 14 inches goes through, which the small home machines here don't manage. The two-cartridge hybrid system keeps the ink bay simple: pigment black for documents, dye color for everything else.

Where it slips is the ink economics. Two cartridges at a price that sits near the Epson tank put running costs closer to the budget Canon than to the refillable machine, and the feeder only earns its keep if you actually scan and copy in batches. Buy it for the feeder; look elsewhere if you mostly print.

At 18.1 pounds it's the heaviest machine in this set, so give it a real shelf rather than a cabinet top, and its dual-band Wi-Fi runs the same 2.4/5 GHz arrangement as the other Canon here.