7 Most Affordable Printers

An afford­able print­er should com­bine an afford­able price, ade­quate qual­i­ty and a basic set of use­ful fea­tures. In this rank­ing, we have col­lect­ed the 7 best mod­els that you should pay atten­tion to in 2022.

What to look for when choosing a budget printer

For con­ve­nience, we high­light 5 cri­te­ria that will help you buy a good print­er or MFP.

Type of

By type, print­ers are divid­ed into inkjet and laser mod­els. The first is suit­able for those who do not need to print a lot of pho­tos and doc­u­ments. They are inex­pen­sive, some can be as fast as laser print­ers. They pro­duce a bright pic­ture with good col­or repro­duc­tion. Laser coun­ter­parts are need­ed for pre­sen­ta­tions and doc­u­ments. They work quick­ly and effi­cient­ly, have a low cost per print. They cost more than inkjet mod­els, but are not suit­able for print­ing pho­tos.

Cartridge cost

Inkjet car­tridges are expen­sive, but there are mod­els that can help cut costs. These include equip­ment that can work with inex­pen­sive con­sum­ables, as well as devices with the pos­si­bil­i­ty of self-refu­el­ing.

monthly resource

The cost of the print­er con­sists of all its func­tions and the num­ber of prints. You should not buy equip­ment that will work at half strength. For small needs (up to two packs of paper per month), it will be enough to find a mod­el with 1000–1500 prints.

Print speed

A good home print­er prints 10 to 30 pages per minute. Office equip­ment has high­er rates. It is worth remem­ber­ing that inkjet mod­els start work­ing imme­di­ate­ly, and laser coun­ter­parts need to warm up for about 15 sec­onds, so the first sheet will be print­ed more slow­ly.

CISS support

CISS is a con­tin­u­ous ink sup­ply sys­tem, the pres­ence of which reduces the cost of a sheet (the dif­fer­ence reach­es tens of times). Such mod­els have sev­er­al vials of 50–70 ml with dif­fer­ent inks. They are much bet­ter when com­pared with tri-col­or car­tridges, because the lat­ter needs to be changed when one of the col­ors is exhaust­ed, and for the CISS, the ink sup­ply is replen­ished based on real costs. In addi­tion, it is safer, since the print head of new mod­els is more durable due to improved tech­nolo­gies.

When choos­ing, it is rec­om­mend­ed to pay atten­tion to use­ful fea­tures. These include:

• sup­port for mobile appli­ca­tions, thanks to which you can con­trol from your phone;
• sup­port for print­ing on dif­fer­ent sur­faces (pho­to paper, envelopes, films, etc.);
• duplex print­ing, which applies an image on both sides;
• tray, thanks to which you will have to put paper less often;
• the pres­ence of built-in mem­o­ry, which reduces the chance of freez­ing equip­ment.

For color printing

Col­or print­ers con­tain sev­er­al types of ink (usu­al­ly up to 4). Because of this, they can cost more than their black and white coun­ter­parts.

1. Canon PIXMA G1411

PIXMA G1411 is a small print­er (445x135x330mm WxHxD) with refill­able ink tanks. It con­tains 4 col­ors at once, which include black, cyan, magen­ta and yel­low. It prints well both A4 doc­u­ments and pho­tos. Equipped with Canon FINE tech­nol­o­gy and a hybrid ink sys­tem that enhances char­ac­ter and pic­ture qual­i­ty.

Has a tray that can hold up to 100 sheets of stan­dard paper. It has a good yield of black and white (12,000 pages) and col­or (7,000 pages) car­tridges. Capa­ble of print­ing up to 8.8 black and white images per minute. Works with sev­er­al types of paper, includ­ing glossy.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• long black-and-white car­tridge resource;
• Canon FINE tech­nol­o­gy.

Flaws:

• no par­tic­u­lar defi­cien­cies were found.

2. Epson L132

An unusu­al print­er that uses ink con­tain­ers instead of a car­tridge. Con­tains cyan, yel­low, black and magen­ta, which is enough for 7500 col­or or 3500 black and white pho­tographs. Experts cal­cu­lat­ed that with a low load, this would be enough for three years, which allows sav­ing on con­sum­ables.
And to improve qual­i­ty, Epson Micro Piezo tech­nol­o­gy has been added, with which you can get high-qual­i­ty prints. The func­tion of print­ing 10x15 pho­tos with­out bor­ders also stands out. The width of the mod­el is 482 mm, height — 130 mm, depth — 222 mm.

Advan­tages:

• allows you to buy ink less often;
• Epson Micro Piezo tech­nol­o­gy;
• accept­able qual­i­ty.

Flaws:

• Not all users are sat­is­fied with the speed of print­ing.

3. HP Color Laser 150a

A laser mod­el that is easy to learn how to use. Can work with 4 col­ors, suit­able for both office paper and envelopes, labels, mat­te and glossy papers. Like all lasers, it has a small draw­back in the form of a long first page print. The whole process takes from 12.4 to 25.3 sec­onds, it all depends on whether the print is in col­or or not. By the same cri­te­ri­on, the aver­age print speed varies, which ranges from 4 to 18 pages per minute. Has 4 built-in car­tridges, each of which is designed for 700‑1000 prints. The mod­el is heavy, weighs 10 kg, its width is 382 mm, height — 212 mm, depth — 309 mm.

Advan­tages:

• demo­c­ra­t­ic price;
• qui­et work;
• easy to use.

Flaws:

• there is only a wired con­nec­tion.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Alex 罗萨 (luó sà) The best print­er for your mon­ey. The print qual­i­ty is supe­ri­or to even much more expen­sive Chi­nese brand print­ers. The main prob­lem with the print tray.

Ermakov Sergey Noth­ing extra, no dis­plays. Due to this, it is one of the small­est col­or laser print­ers. This is exact­ly what I was look­ing for, based on the size of my desk draw­er)

4. Canon PIXMA G1420

When choos­ing a print­er for a home with cheap con­sum­ables, you should pay atten­tion to the Canon G1420, which has a con­tin­u­ous ink sup­ply sys­tem that saves addi­tion­al resource. It can work not only with doc­u­ments, but also with pho­tos. It has 4 car­tridges, the num­ber of col­or prints is designed for 7700 pages, and black and white for 6000.

The unpre­ten­tious func­tion­al­i­ty is com­pen­sat­ed by the ease of set­up and the speed of black-and-white print­ing, reach­ing the mark of 20 ppm, while the aver­age is 9.1 ppm. Col­or print­ing is not as fast and reach­es 5 ppm. The mod­el has a width of 445 m and a height of 135 mm, the depth is 330 mm. There is a paper feed tray with a capac­i­ty of 100 sheets.

Advan­tages:

• there is a CISS sys­tem;
• print­er with cheap refills;
• easy to set up.

Flaws:

• You may expe­ri­ence prob­lems con­nect­ing to a com­put­er in Win­dows 10.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Yuri Kokhanis­tov Been dream­ing of it for a long time and it final­ly hap­pened! All the pho­tos were print­ed in a week, all that has accu­mu­lat­ed is 10x15 pho­tos — A4 for­mats !!!
Long chose, asked the price, read the reviews. The choice fell on him and they were not mis­tak­en — I RECOMMEND!!!
Great gift!!!

Vic­tor D. CISS, replace­able “dia­per”, silent oper­a­tion, print qual­i­ty.

For black and white printing

Black and white print­ers are used to print doc­u­ments. The top bud­get print­ers below include hardy mod­els suit­able for the home or small office.

1.Pantum P2516/P2518

A laser print­er that prints at a speed of 22 A4 pages per minute. It can be used for cards, trans­paren­cies, labels and envelopes, but due to its design it takes a long time to warm up, so the first sheet may come out after 7–8 sec­onds after start­ing work. Com­pat­i­ble with Win­dows, Mac OS and even Lin­ux.

The width of the mod­el is 337 mm, height — 178 mm, depth — 220 mm. The total weight does not exceed 5 kg. It is durable and can print up to 15,000 pages per month. Dur­ing oper­a­tion, it makes a lit­tle noise (52 dB). To con­nect to a com­put­er, you will need the includ­ed USB cable. Also includ­ed is a war­ran­ty card and a quick start guide.

Advan­tages:

• high speed print­ing;
• you can refu­el your­self;
• nice price;
• one of the cheap­est print­ers.

Flaws:

• takes time to warm up.

Cus­tomer Reviews

ST Nim­ble, decent print­ing, long pow­er cord, com­pact.

Mikhail Shve­dov The most com­mon print­er. It per­forms its func­tion. Deliv­ered on time, pack­aged well. The kit includes a disk for instal­la­tion. You can also down­load the dri­ver for instal­la­tion from the offi­cial web­site.

2. Pantum P2207

Cheap and reli­able print­er for home use. Has a built-in paper tray that holds 150 sheets. Due to its com­pact­ness (337 mm in width, 178 in height and 220 in depth) it can be placed on a table. The declared resource of the car­tridge is designed for 1600 pages, the mod­el can pro­duce up to 15000 print­outs per month.
The device can print up to 20 pages per minute, except for a warm-up time of 6–7 sec­onds. It can han­dle labels, trans­paren­cies, cards, mat­te and glossy paper, and envelopes. And for extra sav­ings, it comes with mul­ti­ple cables and a starter car­tridge.

Advan­tages:

• a large num­ber of pos­i­tive reviews;
• com­pact;
• print qual­i­ty.

Flaws:

• not all users are sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty of plas­tic;

Cus­tomer Reviews

Arkady Every­thing is fine, not even the nois­i­est, but the sound is fright­en­ing. 🙂
We’ll get used to it, I think.
Peo­ple com­plain about the high cost of native car­tridges. We refill such car­tridges for 300 rubles. In addi­tion, “non-native” ana­logues appeared on sale. You can find bud­get options

Ilya K. The print­er was pur­chased for mak­ing pho­tomasks of print­ed cir­cuit boards. He copes with this task per­fect­ly. It prints almost with­out gaps on a trans­par­ent film, the pho­tore­sist is illu­mi­nat­ed nor­mal­ly. Pleased with the absence of image dis­tor­tion, typ­i­cal for most laser print­ers.

3. HP LaserJet 1100

This mod­el, with a slight­ly old-fash­ioned design, can turn out up to 7,000 pages per month. The car­tridge is capa­cious and is designed for 2500 prints. The max­i­mum print speed is 8 pages per minute, but due to out­dat­ed tech­nol­o­gy, it will take 18 sec­onds to warm up.

The mod­el weighs 7 kg, but at the same time it has a width of 367 mm, a height of 325 mm and a depth of 378 mm. You can not wor­ry about the reli­a­bil­i­ty of the device, the mod­el is able to work with­out repair for more than 10 years. There is a small tray that can hold up to 125 pages for input and 100 for paper out­put.

Advan­tages:

• car­tridge for 2500 pages;
• low cost of ser­vice;
• reli­a­bil­i­ty.

Flaws:

• it will be dif­fi­cult to find com­po­nents;
• out­dat­ed design.

Cus­tomer Reviews

藤原拓海 The print­er was found in a garbage dump in 2010, the pro­duc­tion date is 1999, it works as expect­ed, it was most like­ly thrown away due to old age

Sbekon I’m afraid that it will break — where to repair it? Mod­ern experts will be very sur­prised to see a print­er — the same age.