connectivity and excellent print quality, not to mention EcoTank’s fantastic under-1-cent cost
per page. That provides peace of mind to actually use your printer to churn out several
hundred budget-friendly color prints each month.53
BEST MONOCHROME LASER PRINTER
CANON IMAGECLASS MF424DW
$349.99 EDITORS’ CHOICE Llllm
Canon’s MF424dw emerges as a stalwart from a highly saturated and fiercely competitive
field of low- to medium-volume all-in-one (print, copy, scan, and fax) monochrome printers.
Not only does it churn out near-typesetter-quality text and pristine grayscale graphics, it does
so at over 40 pages per minute. It comes with nearly every convenience and productivity
feature available, including a single-pass auto-duplexing automatic document feeder (ADF), a
large customizable touch control panel, USB thumb drive support, mobile device connectivity,
expandable paper input capacity, competitive running costs for this genre, and more.54
BEST COLOR LASER PRINTER
LEXMARK MC2535ADWE
$599 EDITORS’ CHOICE Llllm
Designed for medium- to high-volume use in small- to midsize offices and workgroups, the
Lexmark MC2535adwe’s impressive speed, excellent print quality, noteworthy feature set,
and expandable paper input capacity mean business. You get an auto-duplexing 50-sheet
automatic document feeder (ADF), a whopping 85,000-page maximum monthly duty cycle,
and an unparalleled 8,500-page recommended monthly print volume (the number of pages
the machine is actually designed to churn out each month). Security features abound and
provide highly customizable access controls, and its list of supported operating system and
platform drivers is the longest we’ve seen.55
BEST PHOTO PRINTER
CANON PIXMA TS9520 WIRELESS INKJET
ALL-IN-ONE PRINTER
$249.99 EDITORS’ CHOICE Llllm
At the top of the pecking order for Canon Pixma TS Series consumer-grade AIO photo
printers, the five-ink (as opposed to the traditional four CMYK process colors) TS9520 not
only delivers superb bright and accurately colored, highly-detailed documents and photos, it
does so with borderless finishing on up to wide-format tabloid-size (11 by 17 inches) media. A
rich feature set includes a 20-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), a first for TS Series
machines; robust standard and mobile connectivity, including Ethernet wired networking;
support for SD card memory devices, and voice-activation via Amazon Alexa or Google
Assistant Smart Home services, as well as most other platforms that support IFTTT.