What printer do you recommend for home use?

[Tien Nguyen]

Lately I’ve been doing repeated runs to the print shop only to have one or two pages printed so I though it would be more useful to buy my own printer. What printer do you guys recommend for home use? I print a few pages a week and don’t need color.

[Robert Clark]

Before you look at specific models you should decide between laser and inkjet. Laser printers print faster but are more expensive. Inkjet printers are cheaper but waster more ink so the costs will be higher in the long term. Personally I recommend you buy a laser printer since they are also more accurate for black on white text documents than the inkjet ones.

[Megan Taylor]

You didn’t specify a budget. They can range in price anywhere from $50 to over $1000. For a monochrome home printer $100 – $150 is a healthy range.

[Emily Brown]

They are all pretty bad so just pick the one that delivers the fastest and doesn’t have too expensive ink cartridges.

[Tien Nguyen]

Thanks everybody for your answers. I went for the first laster printer under $150 from the best seller list.

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