If you are looking for a cheap, easy-to-use color printer for your home or office, you cannot go much better than the HP Color LaserJet Pro.
The HP Color LaserJet Pro can get up and running in nine seconds, and it can print 28 pages of color a minute without breaking a sweat. This enterprise-worthy printer includes everything needed to produce quality, full-color prints at up to 28 pages per minute, and as many as 4,000 pages over a month.
With a printing speed of up to 19 pages per minute, the HP LaserJet Pro M15w Compact Laser Printer is among the fastest in its class, making it a perfect choice for home or school use.
Plus, thanks to convenient add-ons such as smart-guide buttons, two-sided printing, and an incredibly helpful HP Smart App, the HP LaserJet MFP M234DW is one of the best printers we reviewed this year.
For a slightly more pricey alternative, the HP LaserJet Pro M148FDW is another excellent laser printer that packs in plenty of features, including a duplexer for double-sided printing, an auto document feeder for scanning and printing multiple-page documents, as well as faxing capabilities — a necessity for some offices, which you will not find in our other laser printer favorites.
Our favorite laser printer overall is the Brother MFC-L2750DW, a monochrome laser printer with all-in-one capabilities built to meet all of your printing needs in a small office, fast, and efficient.
If you are a home user, and you are absolutely certain you are not going to be printing at all in color, go for a budget-friendly monochrome laser printer from Brother, such as the Brother HL-L2300D.
Compared with inkjets, better-quality color laser printers are usually more expensive, but using the cartridges is comparably more affordable, especially if you are looking at per-page print costs.
If you are a small business that requires high-quality printouts of full-color images or photos, then you are going to want to invest in a dedicated color inkjet photo printer to get the best results.
If you need to print out artwork or other documents that have graphics requiring CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) inks for reproduction onto paper, then you will need a color laser printer.
A color inkjet printer will have a good print speed (typically 10-20ppm), it will be able to print either black-and-white documents or full-color documents, and it will produce photo prints from digital images that duplicate what can be created at a photography lab (assuming that you are using high-quality photo paper with your printer).
Laser printers are faster, and are a great choice for sharp monochrome prints, without any of the subtle banding that sometimes occurs with B&W; printing with an inkjet; they are also much quieter than inkjets (though they do tend to take up some extra room).
The best laser printers are also cheaper to run than inkjets, using high-yield cartridges instead of smaller, expensive cartridges, and unlike inkjets, they are low-maintenance, and you do not need to worry about the printing nozzles getting jammed up if you do not use it for a while.
Inkjets may excel at printing photos and are usually cheaper up front, but great laser printers are far better at printing high volumes of documents fast and silently, making them the preferred choice for home office use.
Our overall favorite laser printer may be costing a little more upfront, but the Brother MFC-L2750DW has the best mix of print quality, speed, and cost that we have seen from a laser printer, so it is our Editors Choice.
Laser printers are not photo printers, per se, but models like the Canon Color Imageclass MF644Cdw do much to blur the lines between them, which makes sense coming from a company like Canon, known for its Canon cameras.
The best color laser printer for a small office or home office we tested was the Canon ImageCLASS MF743Cdw.