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Used for: Less than a month
Sharp text even on the cheap copier paper
Filling the tanks the first time needs a steady hand
Ordered for a home office after years of buying cartridges in twos, and the difference on day one is the sound of it. This one hums where the old one ground. Text comes out crisp on the cheapest copier paper in the cupboard, which was the real test. Setup on the Mac needed no downloading at all, the printer simply appeared in the list once it was on the network, and the phone was easier still. The only thing worth warning about is that first fill, which wants a level surface and no interruptions.
Used for: 1–3 months
The children print from their own tablets
Wakes up with a clatter of head cleaning
The kids send homework straight off their tablets and I have not been asked to help once, which in this house is the highest praise available!
Used for: 6–12 months
A3 duplex on a machine that costs almost nothing to run
The flatbed hazes anything glossy, and the feeder is single sided
Replaced a laser that was costing more in toner than the thing was worth. The tank system is the whole point and it delivers: two of us work from home, we print maybe forty pages a week between us, and the black is still somewhere near three quarters after all that. A3 duplex is the other reason it was chosen over the cheaper models. It flips heavy paper without complaint, though it slows right down to do it, and a long double-sided job is something you start and then walk away from. What stops it being five stars is the scanner. The flatbed is fine for documents, but it struggles with anything glossy and photographs come back with a slight haze that no amount of fiddling with the settings shifts. The feeder is strictly single sided too, so scanning both sides of a stack means turning the whole pile over halfway through.
Used for: 6–12 months
One fill has lasted the whole school year
Reloading the tray with A3 is fiddly
Still on the first fill of yellow after nine months of a busy household
Used for: Less than a month
It needs far more shelf, and more headroom for the lid, than you expect
Five stars because the printing is faultless, but somebody should say out loud how big the thing is. It is an A3 machine and it is built like one, so measure the shelf before it arrives rather than after. The lid needs clearance above it to open fully as well, which caught me out under a wall cupboard. Once it is standing somewhere sensible there is nothing to fault. First page from cold is quick and the text is sharp enough for anything legal.
Used for: More than a year
Refills last an age
Big footprint for a home
Three bottles in two years, and the prints still look exactly as they did
Used for: Less than a month
Set it up on a Saturday morning. Filling the tanks from the bottles took ten minutes and there is no way to make a mess of it, the necks only fit one colour each. Wifi was the slow part: it could not see the 5GHz band at all, and I ended up joining it to the 2.4 network from the front panel, which took three goes before the password stuck. Since then it has printed its way through a couple of hundred pages of coursework without a murmur.
Used for: More than a year
The cheapest machine to run I have owned
Slow to wake from standby
A year on and it has cost me two bottles of black and nothing else at all
Used for: Less than a month
A3 borderless without a trip to the print shop
Bought for A3 posters for my classroom and the first one off it came out better than the print shop's!
Used for: 6–12 months
Prints and scans from anywhere in the house
The phone app wants an account before it will scan
Does everything we ask of it, but the app insists on an account before it will let you scan to a phone, which is a bit of a cheek for something already on your own network