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In the past seven years, we have spent more than 300 hours researching and testing laser printers, and we are sure that the best choice for full-featured laser printers is HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw. Among the 40 current laser printer models we have considered, it is the most reliable and least annoying to use. It can print anything that most people want, and it works very well.

The HP M254dw has an excellent user interface, prints faster than competitors, and generates clear black text with vivid color graphics.

If you need a laser printer that can handle any print job—from tax forms and labels to envelopes and company reports—the HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw is unbeatable. Its easy-to-use touch screen interface and HP Smart software really stand out from the competition. Compared with other printers we have tried, the setup and daily use are much less troublesome. It can equally easily generate clear black text and vibrant full-color graphics. M254dw is also faster than competing models, outputting about 17 single-sided pages per minute, and it has a convenient bypass slot that can easily print on envelopes and other strange-sized media.

HL-L2350DW has low operating cost, fast operation and useful functions, it is your best value for money laser printer.

If you are looking for a relatively inexpensive laser printer for occasional black and white print jobs, we recommend the Brother HL-L2350DW. The setup is very simple, and the machine is compatible with all major platforms, including Windows, MacOS, ChromeOS, Linux, iOS and Android. Its cost per page is reasonable, it sticks to Wi-Fi like glue, and the price is largely affordable. Its print quality works out of the box, but you can improve it with a few simple settings adjustments. Please note that the L2350DW cannot scan or copy, so if you need this feature, please check our selection of monochrome all-in-ones.

This multifunction printer adds a flatbed scanner and automatic document feeder to the L2350DW, which significantly improves the practicality of its home office.

If you like the sound of our budget choice, but want to be able to scan and copy documents and photos, MFC-L2750DW should meet the requirements. At its core is a very similar printer — and it’s just as easy to set up — but it also has a flatbed scanner and a fast, single-pass, double-sided automatic document feeder. Its out-of-the-box print quality is slightly better, and you can get the same operating costs, the same printing speed, and the same connection options as the L2350DW. For home offices, this is a good all-purpose choice-as long as you don't need color.

This color laser all-in-one machine is an excellent choice for small businesses that need fast, multi-function printers.

If your small business has stricter productivity requirements, the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw is more worth upgrading than our other options. It's very simple to set up, and it also provides more powerful management settings and security options for a multi-user environment. Compared with inkjet printers with similar functions, all-in-one color laser printers like M477fdw are more expensive and more expensive to operate, but they provide high quality at a faster rate than cheaper models Color printing, copying and scanning. They are also stronger and more reliable than inkjet printers.

We believe that laser printers are most suitable for people who need a lot of printing, such as small business owners. They are also very suitable for people who do not print often but want the machine to work without complaint in the rare cases where printing is required.

To help you determine whether a laser printer is right for you, take a look at a brief list of laser printers that tend to do better than inkjet printers:

But laser printers are not for everyone, because they are not omnipotent. Here are a few reasons why you might want to stick with inkjet printers:

If you think you want inkjet instead of laser, we recommend the best inkjet machine here.

There are several distinct subcategories for laser printers, and for this guide, we look for good options in each category.

In the past, due to the high cost of color toner and the high upfront cost of the machine itself, we thought that color laser printers were a luxury for home use. However, the price has gradually dropped to a more acceptable range, and we believe that these printers now provide the best all-round value for those who want a trouble-free printing experience. Compared with inkjet printers and monochromatic lasers, they are still expensive, but the convenience and flexibility of color lasers cannot be overemphasized.

In order to find the best color laser printers, we screened all current color laser printers we could find based on our affordability. Then, we only considered results with automatic two-sided printing, Wi-Fi, and support for today's mobile printing standards to optimize the results. We prefer models with lower toner cost. In order to eliminate any old cars with good specifications but poor actual performance, we read hundreds of customer and professional reviews. This brings us two important competitors: Canon ImageClass LBP612Cdw and HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw.

Because they are essentially similar machines, we used most of the same criteria to find our color laser options, but lowered the price ceiling, because monochrome laser printers tend to be much cheaper. With these parameters, we end up with only two competitors. Unfortunately, we found that one of them is unlikely to last longer, so we decided to test the other — Brother HL-L2350DW — to confirm that it is the best choice for people with occasional printing needs.

Although printing machines alone are sufficient for most people, many others—especially small and home business owners—also want a copier and scanner. Therefore, we are looking for a monochrome multifunction printer with a reasonable price, low toner cost, Wi-Fi connection, mobile application, duplex printing, and automatic document feeder (not just a flatbed scanner).

Our research found 14 mono MFPs that meet these standards. We read owner and professional reviews to find the best of them, and finally chose two test models: Brother MFC-L2750DW and Canon ImageClass MF249dw.

Finally, we looked for a high-end color laser all-in-one machine for people who have more serious small office or home office needs. It needs to be fast and flexible, provide excellent print and scan quality, and be relatively affordable (although these machines are not cheap).

Through the screening of color laser AIO from top manufacturers, we got four models that meet all our requirements: Brother MFC-9340CDW, Canon Color ImageClass MF733Cdw and HP Color LaserJet Pro M477fdw. This is one of our upgrade options in the package. A copy of the printer guide.

Your first experience with the printer sets the tone for the upcoming relationship. If the setting is easy, then you will be more positive about the machine moving forward. This is why we pay special attention to the installation process, from physical unboxing to wireless connection of each machine to Windows PC, Mac, iPhone and Android devices. When we were able to print double-sided documents from each platform via Wi-Fi, turn off and reopen the machine and execute it again, we considered the setup to be successful.

Because simply getting a print job can be frustrating, we also tested other ways of wirelessly interacting with these machines. Since it is so important to Chromebook users, we make sure that every printer supports Google Cloud Print. When we can print using Google Cloud Print from a mobile phone that uses cellular data, we think this is a success. If available, we also checked other mobile printing standards and proprietary systems such as Mopria and HP ePrint.

You have to work hard to find a laser printer, which at least cannot provide considerable print quality, but some still manage to stand out from the packaging. In order to distinguish between good and bad, we printed several text-based reference documents, which also include elements such as columns, tables, or charts: 1099 tax forms (PDF) instructions, star maps designed for lens sharpness testing, documents from The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is designed to mimic a typical office report and a simple Word/PDF document that contains the same sentences, repeated in decreasing font sizes from 72 points to 1 point. We also printed some high-resolution photos, because the more data the better, and it might be instructive to understand how each printer handles materials that really break the limits of its capabilities.

We also checked the quality options of each printer, including the toner density slider and any available print resolution settings, to understand your expectations for toner saving options, and to see if we can produce better-looking text.

Trying the quality setting also helped us get acquainted with the print menu. We spent some time on standard print cartridges and the more mysterious web-based control panels that most printers use to make more technical adjustments.

To test the printing speed, we printed four four-page ISO documents in duplex (duplex) and single-sided (single-sided) modes. We timed the entire process, from the click to print to the last sheet of paper coming out of the feeder, so that it includes any warm-up time required from the cold start. We also tried double-sided printing at the highest quality setting of each printer. These tests not only let us feel how fast the printer can spit out a 10-page book report, but also let us feel whether the difference between them is enough to have an impact on our daily lives.

For multifunction printers, we added a speed test for copying and scanning large (50-page) documents composed of mixed output in our print test, again considering the double-sided and single-sided speeds. We also tested the flatbed scanning quality of each multifunction printer using glossy test photos printed on our inkjet all-in-one HP OfficeJet Pro 8720. We scan at all available resolutions and look for significant quality differences between the output of each machine, from sharpness to color reproduction and contrast.

Finally, we conducted a stress test on all the paper feeding parts of each printer, including not only the main tray, but also the bypass tray and document feeder (if the printer has one). We stuffed them (slightly) with paper to see if they would get stuck, and we fed them a single sheet of paper to see if they could pick up every piece of paper. We also provided a crumpled paper for multifunction printers to see if their ADF can handle unexpected situations.

The HP M254dw has an excellent user interface, prints faster than competitors, and produces clear black text with vivid color graphics.

The HP Color LaserJet Pro M254dw is fast, powerful, flexible and most importantly easy to use, which in our book makes it the best laser printer for most people. We like the responsive control panel, the modern design of the HP PC and mobile software, and how easy it is to set up the printer and connect to Wi-Fi. The toner is affordable, you can fit it into an extra-large cartridge, which can print more than 3,000 pages, and most people should be able to use it for a long time before it needs to be replaced. The overall print quality is excellent, and all the features you expect from a high-end machine are here: automatic duplex, a large number of network options, support for common mobile printing standards, and a bypass slot for odd-sized media.

Setting up M254dw is easy, thanks in large part to the very useful getting started guide. It lists three different ways to set up the printer to connect to the PC: USB, Ethernet, and Wi-Fi. Although it comes with a USB cable (which is rare now), we think most people will use Wi-Fi, so this is the path we chose. Using the touch screen, establishing a wireless connection is as easy as selecting our router from the list and entering the password. Unlike most other printers we tested, HP also offers a full QWERTY keyboard, which makes entering complex passwords less frustrating.

Wi-Fi and touch screen interface are several areas where M254dw excels. Maintaining a stable wireless connection has always been a difficult task for the printer, but in our tests, this HP performed well, driven by a first-class feature: dual-band Wi-Fi. Yes, M254dw can work on the standard 2.4 GHz band or the 5 GHz band, which is generally less populated and faster.

The bright, high-resolution color touch-screen display makes it easy to navigate through the printer’s many settings menus. All other printers we tested for this guide use old-fashioned resistive touch screens, which are far less accurate or easy to use than the capacitive touch screens on most smartphones. This screen is not as big as a larger all-in-one printer, such as our upgrade option, but it is still a major upgrade of our budget choice for single-line mono reading or a blocky low-resolution monochrome touch screen. We are also on the Canon ImageClass LBP612Cdw taking the test.

Once the M254dw is connected to your network, you can visit 123.hp.com and click the "LaserJets or PageWides" link at the bottom of the page to obtain drivers and software for Mac or Windows PC. (Alternatively, you can click here.) This will provide you with the HP Easy Start installer, which will guide you through the printer connection, registration, and work with the computer. Compared with other HPs we have tested, this process of this printer takes longer, but we can still complete all the work within half an hour. Connecting to a smartphone or tablet is much faster. You can download the HP Smart app (Android and iOS) and add a printer with just a few taps.

The operating costs of the M254dw are low, but keep in mind that these are only estimates-if you are printing a full page of color photos, you can expect to get fewer pages from each toner cartridge, and most text-based pages And some color graphics can further stretch the toner and reduce the cost per page. HP's toner cartridges have integrated drums, so you don't have to worry about buying new toner cartridges in a few years. If you want to take your money even further, you can set the printer to default duplex printing and adjust the menu settings to reduce toner usage. We do not recommend distributing toner-reduced prints to customers, but the results are acceptable for daily personal use.

The 250-sheet main paper tray of the M254dw model (which accepts all legal size paper trays) is larger than many paper trays in similar products, so you don't have to load paper frequently. The dedicated bypass slot for odd-sized media means that if you want to print on envelopes, labels, or card paper, you don’t have to remove regular paper. The slot is electric, and it was a bit offensive when we first used it. When you slide the envelope or label paper into the slot, the rollers will grab it and draw it into the printer until you send the print job. (But we couldn't find a way to make the printer eject the paper from this slot without printing, which seems a bit strange.)

No matter how hard we try, we can't get M254dw stuck. When we packed up to 50 extra sheets of paper in the paper tray, a warning popped up on the control panel saying that the paper tray was too full and the machine refused to print. (In this case, other printers will try, fail, and jam.) When we put in 250 pages, it can print normally, even when there is only one sheet of paper in the tray. However, if we encounter a paper jam, there is a convenient access port on the back of the printer to take it out.

In the default settings, M254dw generates clear, dark black text, with readability as low as two points. When printing business-style graphics and household miscellaneous items (such as comics, coloring book pages, and crossword puzzles), the results were equally impressive. We did not observe any jagged lines or bands in the solid color areas-these two problems often plague cheap models. Although it cannot print on photo paper, we ran some high-resolution test photos on plain paper through HP and were generally satisfied with the results. The print is a bit faded, but you can get accurate colors, a lot of detail, and relatively low noise. These photos are not the ones you want to hang on the wall, or even on the refrigerator, but they are good enough to be the cover of a business presentation or school paper.

HP claims that the black and white printing speed of the M254dw is up to 22 pages per minute, but in our tests, it can print up to about 17 pages per minute when printing a PDF composed of mixed text and graphics. This is an impressive result-slightly faster than the Canon LBP612Cdw we tested, and certainly fast enough for most home and home office applications. The color printing speed is slightly slower, at 15 pages per minute, and the monochrome or color duplex printing speed is further reduced to 11 pages per minute. Again, faster than the competition.

Early owner reviews pointed out various issues, the most common being color accuracy and Wi-Fi stability, although subsequent firmware updates seem to have resolved many of these issues. During the test, we were unable to register the printer to Google Cloud Print before updating the firmware, but it worked normally afterwards. Our recommendation: Always try to update the firmware immediately after setting up any printer. You are unlikely to encounter problems this way.

Another common complaint from owners is that M254dw may be slow to start printing. We only observed this when printing high-resolution color test photos during testing. In this case, it takes more than a minute for the machine to start printing after receiving the job. All the other work we ran started immediately, from Word documents and PDFs to smaller JPEGs and PSDs from Photoshop.

The M254dw comes with a set of compact "starter" toner cartridges, suitable for 800 black and white pages and 700 color pages. Large-capacity replacement parts are suitable for up to 3,200 monochrome and 2,500 color pages, but the full set is expensive. This is not just a problem with the M254dw-almost all consumer laser printers (including the alternatives we considered and tested) are equipped with these corner-cut cartridges, but it is still annoying. Most buyers should be prepared to replace the toner within the first year or so, but for those who use the printer in the home office, the replacement point may be faster. The price of third-party toner is about half the price of a genuine HP product, but we cannot guarantee that it will be useful to you, so you must explore this option at your own risk.

Color laser printers are larger and heavier than monochrome printers because they use four toner cartridges instead of one. The Color LaserJet Pro M254dw is no exception: it is more than twice as heavier than our budget option (Brother HL-L2350DW), but still more than our upgrade option (HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw). It will take up a lot of space on your desk, but it will not take up space like an all-in-one. Due to its 19-inch depth, it may also not fit your bookshelf.

HL-L2350DW has low operating cost, fast operation and useful functions, it is your best value for money laser printer.

Brother HL-L2350DW is a simple, economical and reliable monochrome laser printer. For those with basic needs-printing taxes, recipes, boarding passes, etc.-its automatic double-sided printing capability, large 250-page paper tray, reliable paper handling, fast printing and low cost per page make it a A good choice, despite some quirks.

Using a machine, this simple physical setup is fast. You only need to remove the packing tape, insert the toner cartridge, adjust the tray guides and load some paper. Using this model of printer on Wi-Fi is more complicated than using some other printers, because the HL-L2350DW uses an obvious old-fashioned user interface that consists of a single-line monochrome LED display and a series of rubber buttons. The Wi-Fi password cannot be entered on the machine itself, so you must complete the process with the help of a PC. Even so, we were able to connect to our network within a few minutes, and the printer remained connected reliably throughout the test-even a few rooms away, one floor below our router. Some users have reported that the L2340DW, the predecessor of this printer, refuses to wake up from deep sleep mode, so we are happy to find that the new model did not cause us any problems during our testing. If you wish, you can operate L2350DW via USB, but you must provide your own cable. If you want an Ethernet port for wired internet, you can upgrade to other almost identical HL-L2370DW.

L2350DW is suitable for Windows PC, Mac and even Linux systems. It is also compatible with all major mobile printing standards, including Google Cloud Print, which means it is the best choice for Chromebook users. However, you may have problems getting the printer to complete the cloud printing registration-we did. For us, the solution was to access the printer's web control panel, navigate to the network tab and disable IPv6. After completion, the printer can immediately enter the cloud printing and run perfectly in the remaining tests. Considering the fact that Cloud Print is not applicable to IPv6, it is a mystery why Brother enabled this setting when shipping on L2350DW. At least this is a simple fix.

You really don't need to install any additional software for L2350DW, because it has native Windows and Mac drivers. It can also be used automatically with AirPrint on iOS and can be added via Brother print service on Android. Brother's iPrint&Scan application is available for all four platforms. It functions perfectly, even if it is not as well designed as HP's software. Unfortunately, in our tests, the quality of printing from iPrint&Scan was very bad no matter which quality setting was selected. We contacted Brother for comments, but the company was unable to provide any explanation for the difference in print quality. Generally, we recommend that you avoid using the application and print through the native print dialog of the operating system, which is very effective.

HL-L2350DW can be used out of the box to generate beautiful text. Tax forms and other documents with small fonts (up to two dots) are very easy to read, with larger headings with sharp edges and dark centers. All in all, this printer should be enough to print large amounts of text documents. On the other hand, graphics and photos are just mediocre under default settings. Some light bands can be seen in the solid color area, and the graphics look a bit grainy. The output is good enough for personal use or internal business documents, if you need to distribute documents to customers, you can improve it by adjusting the toner density and resolution settings (at the cost of toner life).

Brother claims that the L2350DW can print at up to 32 pages per minute, which is 5 pages per minute faster than the machine it replaces. It is not that fast for us, but it is still fast enough for almost any home or home office use we can imagine. We counted at 25 pages per minute when printing single-sided PDF, and 12 pages per minute when using double-sided printing-in both cases faster than our preferred M254dw. The print job can also be started reliably within a few seconds, so it won't make you wait for a long time under any circumstances.

One of the advantages of HL-L2350DW is its low cost of ownership. Operating costs are also very low. Even taking into account the drum wear, each print is exactly the same as the other models we recommend. The optional 3,000-page high-yield ink cartridge means you don't need to change toner frequently. (However, like most other laser printers, the L2350DW is equipped with a trivial starter cartridge that can only print 700 pages.)

This printer is very small and light. It weighs only 15.9 pounds, which is more than 10 pounds lighter than our next smallest pickaxe, and it has a significantly smaller footprint. It's very short, 7.2 inches high, which should help you put it on your bookshelf. But it can also easily find a space on your desk or any other place you might want to push.

However, don't expect a relatively inexpensive printer like the HL-L2350DW to have excellent build quality. Our test unit was packed in a very broken box (thanks to FedEx), and when we opened it, a bunch of broken polystyrene foam was released in the box. After getting the printer up and running, we immediately noticed that double-sided printing was not working properly-every time we printed a double-sided document, it would get stuck in the exact same position. We connected to the phone, and the Brother customer support agent quickly diagnosed the problem: the plastic guide in the paper path was damaged during transportation. It's easy to put it back where it should go, but it shows that the fragility (and poor quality packaging) problem of L2350DW happened in the first place.

This multifunction printer adds a flatbed scanner and automatic document feeder to the L2350DW, which significantly improves the practicality of its home office.

If you work from home, run a home business, or just want the flexibility of a laser printer that can scan and copy, we recommend the Brother MFC-L2750DW. This powerful machine combines the basic practicality and reliability of our Brother HL-L2350DW budget machine with the versatility of a flatbed scanner and a single-pass duplex automatic document feeder. It is reliable, fast, cost-effective and quite compact, and can handle everything except color print jobs. (Yes, including fax.)

The setup of the MFC-L2750DW is even simpler than its little brother, because you can connect it to Wi-Fi using the color touch screen control panel. The interface is easy to navigate, even if not as user-friendly as our main choice. It includes many convenient built-in applications, including Dropbox and Google Drive, so you can print directly from your cloud account. It also has a scan to email application, which is very simple to configure. When we try to scan a very large job, it will time out several times, but otherwise it works very quickly.

The default print quality of L2750DW is sufficient for home and internal business use-a small step ahead of our budget choice Brother HL-L2350DW, small fonts are clearer, and graphics performance is slightly better. But for professional-looking brochures or presentations, you may want to use our upgrade to choose a printer such as HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw, or give the job to a professional print shop.

Scans from the automatic document feeder look good, but if you don't micromanage the paper guides on the ADF tray, they may be a bit crooked (a malfunction of many all-in-ones). Thanks to the maximum resolution of 1200 dpi (twice the resolution provided by some competing machines), flatbed scanning avoids this problem and has excellent sharpness. You can scan to emails, network computers or drives, FTP servers, or cloud applications such as Dropbox and Google Drive. Unfortunately, this printer does not have a USB port, so you cannot save the scan results directly to the thumb drive.

Thanks to its single-pass double-sided automatic document feeder, even double-sided documents can be scanned at a very fast speed-24 pages per minute in black and white and 8 pages per minute in color. The Canon ImageClass MF249dw we tested was as fast as a single-sided document, but was 66% slower when printing on both sides, because scanning double-sided paper requires two passes.

L2750DW shares some annoying but easy-to-repair malfunctions with its print-only stabilizer. Like L2350DW, when you start a job from Brother's iPrint&Scan application, the print quality will decrease, so you should use the native print dialog of the operating system instead. Google Cloud Print didn't work from the beginning—or it wasn't for us—but you can solve this problem by disabling IPv6 in the network options of the network control panel.

This machine feels very fragile, but the advantage is that it is light and compact among similar products, and it is easier to integrate into your space. When setting up for the first time, be sure to check if there are any plastic parts that may jump out of position, and run some print and scan jobs to make sure everything is in order. If it is not, please call Brother Customer Support before returning the machine, as the repair may be very simple.

This color laser all-in-one machine is an excellent choice for small businesses that need fast, multi-function printers.

If you need (or just want) a more professional printer than our other options, the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdw is an all-in-one printer that can print in color and has all the most important productivity features, including dual Surface printing and scanning, wireless connection and fax functions. This is perfect for small businesses-more powerful than the typical all-in-one inkjet printer, but smaller and more affordable than the bulky corporate machines you see on your local cubicle farm.

Although not enterprise-grade, the M477fdw is still huge and heavy, weighing more than 51 pounds. It can be difficult to take it out of the box, so before you start setting up, make sure you have help on hand. After unpacking, the operation is very simple: tear off the packing tape, adjust the paper guide, insert some paper and start. Thanks to the touch screen interface, connecting to Wi-Fi becomes simple, which is a huge, colorful capacitive panel, just like a smart phone screen. Like other HP laser printers, you can go to 123.hp.com, click the "LaserJets or PageWides" link, and then get all the software you need for your PC or Mac to establish a satisfactory working relationship with the machine. As we have pointed out elsewhere, we really like the HP Smart software because it is very user-friendly in both computer and smartphone formats.

Like other recent HP printers, the M477fdw is compatible with all major mobile printing standards, including Google Cloud Print and Mopria. HP also provides its own printing service HP ePrint. Essentially, your printer has its own email address, and you can email JPEG, PDF, and other files to be printed (up to 10 MB per email) to it. It works very well. Scanning is equally simple. You can use the HP Smart application to scan directly to your mobile phone or PC, or use the application on the printer itself to send the scan results directly to Google Drive, Dropbox, and other cloud storage services. As you would expect from a business-oriented machine, you can also scan to e-mail or network drives, and the printer has a USB port so you can scan to a thumb drive. You can also use the same port to print Word files, PDFs and photos.

We found that M477fdw produces very clear text, similar to our main choice M254dw, and outperforms our two monochrome laser choices in a smaller font size. The graphics look clean and clear, the colors are accurate, and the edges are smooth, without the streaks and excessive dark or bright that we see on cheap laser machines. The results apply to everything from personal use to commercial presentations. You never have to worry about quality.

Like most laser printers, M477fdw is very fast. We set its printing speed to about 27 pages per minute, even over Wi-Fi. The scanning speed is almost as fast. We time it to 25 single-sided black and white pages per minute or 11 double-sided color pages per minute. M477fdw can scan both sides of double-sided documents at once, which contributes to its ultra-fast speed. As a professional machine, this printer can start and print within seconds after you start a print job-even if you have let it sit for several weeks between uses.

The toner cost of M477fdw is about the same as that of Brother MFC-9340CDW, but it is cheaper than Canon Color ImageClass MF726Cdw and HP's own Color LaserJet Pro M277dw.

As we pointed out in the Brother MFC-L2750DW, the M477fdw sometimes produces slightly curved scan results from the document feeder, so in order to make your results as consistent as possible, be sure to check that the guides are close to the document before you start. Start from the side. Some of our reviewers also pointed out that the maximum resolution of the ADF of the M477fdw model is only 300 dpi, which is quite common, so if you need higher quality scanning, you will have to use a flatbed scanner, which can reach up to 1200 dpi.

HP manufactures a large number of similar LaserJet models (including variants of the 477 series), so if you think you don’t need all the features offered by this particular model, please look around-you can expect similar performance from other products in the series.

We also tested the Canon ImageClass LBP612Cdw, but were disappointed with its interface and Wi-Fi performance. This is a good machine, but the HP we chose is better.

The HP Color LaserJet Pro M452dw is the big brother of the M254dw that we mainly chose. The printing speed is slightly faster, the paper handling options are more, and the cost per page is slightly lower. But its upfront cost is also higher. If you can find one at a discount, go and buy it, but we think M254dw usually strikes a better balance between price and performance for most people.

Xerox Phaser 6510/DNI is a powerful color laser machine, and both the owner and editor reviews report that the print quality is very good. However, they also mentioned network problems and component failures of certain routers.

Canon ImageClass LBP6230dw is cheap and compact, and has automatic duplex and Wi-Fi connection functions. But the cost per page is too high, and it does not support AirPrint or Google Cloud Print. This is a problem if you have a Chromebook or want to print from a mobile device.

The Dell E310dw is almost the same as our previous budget choice Brother HL-L2340DW, but Dell has not updated it for many years. It may be a good printer, but there are also newer and better models to choose from.

Monochrome multifunction machine model

If you don't need some of the features provided by our monochrome multi-function selector, Brother DCP-L2550DW is a good choice. Specifically, the product lacks double-sided copy and scan, fax functions, and touch screen interface.

Dell E515dw is very cheap and has reliable user reviews, but the cost per page is also high, and the number of pages printed per month is not as large as the model we tested.

The HP Color LaserJet Pro M281fdw is essentially the reduced version of our choice: slower, smaller and less robust. If your needs are not too demanding, you may need to consider it, but we think M477fdw is a more complete solution for most homes and small businesses.

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