Best SOHO Printer

Best SOHO Printer

Once All-In-One printers became mainstream solutions from manufacturers, they steadily made their way into offices as essential productivity tools, easily replacing single-function printers.

Able to print, copy, scan and fax, the divide between these and their higher-end brethren usually lies in the fact that the majority are still using inkjet technology. Indeed, two of the printers tested here are inkjet-based.

Nominees:

• Brother DCP-L3551CDW
• Canon G7070
• HP OfficeJet Pro 9020

And the winner is...

Canon launched the PIXMA Ink Efficient G7070 recently with added productivity features such as automatic two-sided printing, massive paper feeding capacity, large document automatic document feeder, and full network compatibility. Besides network printing capabilities, it could print from various mobile devices through wireless printing.

With its fairly small footprint, the Canon PIXMA Ink Efficient G7070 was still able to handle most print, scan, and copy demands we threw at it. 

While it was the slowest to print in this group of printers, the results for both the text and image quality were very good and accurate with little colour saturation or bleeding.

One really good feature is the low running cost. The high print volume coupled with the lowest costing replacement cartridges made this the most cost-efficient model tested. Being able to physically see ink levels made it easy to judge when you needed to buy more.

For more details on how we selected our winners, check out the full reviews and articles listed in the References section at the end.
 

References

• Brother DCP-L3551CDW review
• Canon PIXMA G7070 review
• HP OfficeJet Pro 9020 review