These cost-efficient models from Brother and Canon outperform inkjet printers on text quality, speed, and ...

Although some of the best laser printers can be expensive, not all of them are. With a price tag just under $130, this monochrome laser printer can print, scan, and copy all in one.

The best laser printers excel at printing ultra-crisp pages quickly. After rigorous testing, here are my top picks, including Canon, Brother and more.

When the first laser and inkjet printers for PCs arrived—in the mid-1980s—each could print only in monochrome, and their respective advantages were obvious. The differences are more nuanced ...

Laser printers get expensive quickly, and adding color to the mix makes them even pricier. Brother’s HL-L3290CDW delivers speedy laser prints for a more digestible price tag.

With laser printers, you’re looking at an average cost of under $0.05 per page for monochrome jobs and between $0.10 and $0.20 per page for color jobs.

A similarly priced black-and-white laser printer, the $170 HP LaserJet M209dwe, cites about 1,100 pages for a standard toner cartridge, at a cost of about $48. That comes out to about 4 cents a page.

Color laser printer prices now bottom out in the $200-$300 range, while higher-end ones are priced at $1,000 and beyond. Inkjet printers, on the other hand, can be had for under $100.

Though it’s not a laser printer, I absolutely love my Epson Wf-7840 Scanner/printer. I can scan my 11x17 artboards from my iPad Pro at 600 dpi with zero problems.

Midrange Laser Printer This Dataproducts printer prints up to 60 ppm and uses a unique drum system. The unit does not have to be stopped except once each 100,000 pages to advance the drum sleeve.

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