(Or, just use a printer at work, the library, or your local FedEx store.) If you don’t print much, choose a monochrome laser printer and a good scanning app. But if you print all the time, scroll down to our upgrade pick. Do you need to print a lot but not all day, every day? Something like 100 to 500 pages per month? If so, the inkjet AIOs in this guide should be perfect.The archaic design of its tiny display screen and navigation buttons marginally adds to the setup stress, and the printer needs up to 25 minutes before it’s up and running, in contrast to our main pick’s 10-minute install. Like most Brother printers, the MFC-J4335DW is clunky to install because it comes with unintuitive website installers that are difficult to navigate. 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. In our tests, this printer reliably produced crisp text down to a font size of 3 points, as well as sharp, realistic glossy images.
It comes with a year’s worth of ink out of the box, and upgrading to Brother’s high-yield cartridges lets you print at a cost of 1¢ per page for monochrome and 4.7¢ for color, which makes this model significantly cheaper to run than our other picks. 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.
