7 Best Cartridge Printer | Stop Fearing the Reorder Button

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Speed you feel on page one, capacity you feel on the fifth ream

If your print jobs arrive in stacks rather than singles, the WF-3823 is the pick — it runs 21 pages per minute in black and 11 in color, against the Canon PIXMA TR7120’s 14 black and 9 color. That is a real difference: 21 versus 14 black, and 11 versus 9 color. The 250-sheet paper capacity means you load a full ream and stop thinking about the tray for a long while, and the PrecisionCore Heat-Free print head skips the warm-up that older inkjets need, so the first page lands faster. The trade is size — this is a heavier, boxier machine than the compact Canon, and it wants more of a desk.

The 2.7-inch color touchscreen makes menu-diving less painful than a two-button crawl, and setup runs through the Epson Smart Panel app or Bluetooth Low Energy (a short-range wireless link that pairs your phone to the printer without hunting for a network). You also get Ethernet and USB, so a wired connection to a desktop is on the table if wireless gets moody. Four separate DURABrite Ultra ink cartridges — one black and three colors — mean you only swap the color that actually ran dry, which is a genuine advantage over shared tri-color designs. It also only accepts Epson Genuine Cartridges; third-party ink can void the warranty, so build that into your ink budget.

Speed and cheap ink are what buyers keep coming back to — owner reports describe printing that outruns expectations and cartridges that cost little enough that you stop dreading the reorder. Not everyone gets that experience, though. A slice of buyers report reliability trouble, including a report of a unit under a year old refusing to accept genuine Epson cartridges, and a long-time Epson user found the ADF jamming and the ink draining faster than expected. That said, the buyers who stay happy tend to be the ones who set up the Wi-Fi carefully on day one; the connectivity complaints cluster around dropped networks and self-assigned IP addresses, which a fixed IP assignment solves. Treat this as a capable, fast machine that rewards a patient ten-minute setup and punishes a rushed one.

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The workhorse that quietly prints, scans, and copies for a whole household

This is the printer you buy when the family shares one machine for homework, work-from-home docs, and the occasional photo. It runs the same 14 pages per minute black and 9 pages per minute color as the TR7120, so speed is not where it separates from its sibling — the difference is in the day-to-day handling. The 1.42-inch monochrome OLED shows ink levels and status without diving into an app, and the automatic duplex printing flips pages for you, which matters once you have printed a hundred-page document and realized you never wanted to flip anything by hand. It shares the same 2-cartridge hybrid system — cyan, magenta, and yellow on one unit, black on its own — with PG-295 pigment black and CL-286 dye color inks.

Where this machine has clearly won people over is straightforward: pure output quality and a setup process that almost never fights back. The image and text quality is the standout strength across hundreds of reviews, and reports routinely mention being up and running in well under twenty minutes. Owners describe a first print landing sharp right from the start, and students in particular report good enough output for schoolwork and phone-printing convenience. The dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz or 5GHz) helps here — the printer can lean on whichever band is steady — though a minority still report connection trouble, which is the honest weak spot shared across the whole inkjet category rather than unique to this Canon.

What buyers also mention more than anything is how little ink a page takes. Several report the starter ink lasting longer than expected for regular family use, with no jamming or error codes interrupting the flow. The trade-off to know is this: the small screen means more of the setup and menu work happens through the phone app, and if you prefer physical buttons for every setting, that will feel fiddly. The color quality also drew a few mixed notes — most are delighted, but a handful find the saturation less punchy than a dedicated photo printer would deliver. For documents and homework, that is a non-issue.

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A small-office all-rounder with a screen you can actually read from across the room

Brother’s Work Smart 1410 covers the whole job — print, copy, scan, and fax — behind a 2.7-inch color touchscreen that makes the controls feel like a phone rather than a calculator. Print speed runs 16 pages per minute black and 9 pages per minute color, and the 20-sheet single-sided Automatic Document Feeder pulls multi-page scans through without you lifting the lid. The 150-sheet paper tray keeps refills off your daily list, and automatic duplex printing flips pages automatically. For an office that handles paperwork in small stacks, that combination is the practical core of the machine.

What gives it an edge in real daily use is the cloud integration. You can print from and scan to Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and OneDrive straight from the touchscreen, which saves the round-trip of emailing a file to yourself just to get it on paper. The Brother Mobile Connect app handles printing, copying, and scanning from a phone, plus ink monitoring so a low black cartridge does not surprise you mid-job. Ink runs on Brother Genuine LC501 cartridges, which the company states are engineered to work with its printers. In practice, owners describe the black output as clean and the prints as vivid and sharp, with no jams reported on day-to-day document work.

The honest friction here is setup, particularly over USB. Multiple owners describe the wired install needing repeated uninstall and reinstall cycles, with driver-update prompts adding to the confusion, while the app-based route installs in around ten minutes for most. On speed, reports split — plenty find it quick, some find it slower than they hoped, which lines up with a 16 ppm black rating that is solid but not the fastest here.

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Cartridges big enough that you forget what an ink reorder feels like

For anyone who has watched a color cartridge die after forty pages, the pitch here is simple. The INKvestment 1365 ships with one 1,200-page yield black cartridge and one 500-page yield cartridge for each color — cyan, yellow, and magenta. That is the machine’s whole premise: fewer reorders, less sticker shock. It prints at 16 pages per minute black and 9 pages per minute color, and the first page lands in roughly 6.2 seconds black and 9.6 seconds color. Put against the cheaper Canon PIXMA machines at 14 ppm black, it stays comfortably in step, and the yield numbers mean the cartridge conversation comes up far less often. Unlike the HP Envy Photo 7975, which leans into photo printing, this one is built around documents that keep coming.

Ink that lasts is the headline in owner reports, and the praise is specific: buyers describe running months of regular printing on the included cartridges while their old machines would have needed two replacements by then. One long-standing Brother customer notes the ink cartridges “last a long time,” and others report quieter operation than the HP printers they replaced. The front-loading paper cassette makes swapping paper a one-hand job, the 20-page ADF handles scanning without page-by-page lifting, and Wi-Fi Direct lets a phone print even when no external network is available. Output is described as crisp and professional, with color that runs clean and bright rather than oversaturated.

The catch is setup, and it is worth being honest about it. Reports split sharply here: some describe the easiest Mac setup they have done, while others describe an hour of phone support just to get connected. The dual OK-button layout and small black-on-dark LCD do not help, and one buyer notes the mandatory admin password with no option to disable it. The USB path is where the trouble concentrates — plug in wired and the printer may still default to wireless. If you connect through the app or Wi-Fi from the start, most of those complaints evaporate, so the trick is skipping the cable.

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The one to buy when the photos matter as much as the homework

Most cartridge printers treat photo printing as an afterthought. This one does not. The Envy Photo 7975 runs a separate photo tray, so you can keep glossy stock loaded and print a 4×6 without emptying your letter-size paper first. Black prints at 15 pages per minute and color at 10 pages per minute, with the first page out in about 22 seconds. In practical terms, that means a homework cover sheet and a birthday photo come out of the same machine without a paper swap in between — the exact scenario that makes a family printer useful. The automatic document feeder and automatic two-sided printing round out the everyday work, and a large color touchscreen keeps the controls readable.

Setup is where this machine earns its keep. Buyers describe an easy launch and — the recurring theme in positive reports — phone printing that “links with my phone so I can print anytime and anywhere.” That phone link is the whole convenience argument for a household printer, and it lands. Print quality earns credit for both documents and glossy photo paper, with resolution that handles detail well. The HP 64 cartridge family covers black and tri-color, with XL versions available for anyone who prints enough to want the bigger tank.

The honest trade-off is on the desktop side. Where this printer earns consistent praise for phone and wireless setup, a slice of owners mention trouble connecting it to a Windows computer, with one describing repeated reinstall cycles on Windows 11 and an hour of troubleshooting per session — a rough enough experience that the buyer moved to a different brand. Others note faint banding lines on large solid-color prints, though colors themselves read fine for standard photography. If your printing lives on a phone or a tablet, most of that risk never surfaces. If it lives on a Windows desktop, be ready to spend some setup patience.

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Office speed, office paper capacity, and a paper tray that finally holds a full ream

Nothing else in this list prints color as fast. The OfficeJet Pro 9125 runs 22 pages per minute black and 18 pages per minute color, with the first page out in about 11 seconds. Put it against the Canon PIXMA TR7120’s 14 black and 9 color and the gap is obvious — 22 versus 14 black, 18 versus 9 color. The 250-sheet input tray matches that pace, so a full ream of paper goes in and stays in. Add scan, copy, and fax, auto two-sided printing and scanning, and an auto document feeder, and you have a machine built for an office that actually produces paper rather than one that prints the occasional label.

The 2.7-inch touchscreen uses a phone-like layout, and the dual-band Wi-Fi is set up to detect and resolve connection issues automatically — a real convenience given how often that is the weak link in a home office. The setup cartridges are worth noting: the 936 black runs about 800 pages and each color about 420 pages, so you get a meaningful runway before the first reorder. The Instant Ink trial can deliver cartridges by subscription before you run out, and the listed HP 936 and 936e EvoMore cartridges cover the replacements. HP Wolf Pro Security adds network protection, and the body includes more than 40% recycled plastic content.

Buyers describe it as a solid small-office performer with accurate color and a clean install — a Windows driver setup without bloatware being one of the reported wins. The counterweight is build feel and sound. Several reports call the machine flimsy and noisy, and a repetitive startup noise drew a complaint. Office buyers who care about quiet will notice; office buyers who care about speed will not. Overall, this is a fast, capable document printer with a plastic feel — a fair trade at its tier for business output volume.