Guide

All-in-ones with a document feeder under $300

A flatbed scanner is fine for a passport page and miserable for a shoebox of receipts. A document feeder is the difference, and under three hundred dollars it is the feature most often missing. These have one — listed with how many sheets it holds, because a twenty-sheet feeder and a fifty-sheet feeder are not the same purchase.

13 printers · Ordered by feeder capacity, largest first.

Printer	Price	Mono page	Colour page	5,000 pages	Speed
Brother DCP-L2640DW	~$209	3.3¢	—	~$373	36 ppm
Brother MFC-L2820DW	~$269	3.3¢	—	~$433	34 ppm
Xerox B235	~$299	3.6¢	—	~$479	36 ppm
HP DeskJet 4255e	~$119	15¢	33¢	~$1,051	8.5 ppm
HP OfficeJet Pro 8135e	~$179	7.3¢	22¢	~$686	20 ppm
Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4820	~$199	4.4¢	14¢	~$518	25 ppm
HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e	~$229	3.8¢	15¢	~$533	22 ppm
HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e	~$279	3.8¢	15¢	~$583	25 ppm
Canon PIXMA G4270	~$299	0.38¢	1.3¢	~$327	11 ppm
Epson WorkForce WF-2950	~$129	9.7¢	30¢	~$815	10 ppm
Epson EcoTank ET-4800	~$299	0.40¢	1.1¢	~$326	10 ppm
Canon PIXMA TR4720	~$99	13¢	27¢	~$892	8.8 ppm
Canon PIXMA TR8620a	~$199	7.2¢	21¢	~$691	15 ppm

Cost figures are estimates computed from each consumable’s ISO page yield and list price. A dash means we could not source one of those two numbers.

Cost to own · 5,000 pages

Brother DCP-L2640DW~$373
~$209 printer + ~$164 supplies
Brother MFC-L2820DW~$433
~$269 printer + ~$164 supplies
Xerox B235~$479
~$299 printer + ~$180 supplies
HP DeskJet 4255e~$1,051
~$119 printer + ~$932 supplies
HP OfficeJet Pro 8135e~$686
~$179 printer + ~$507 supplies
Epson WorkForce Pro WF-4820~$518
~$199 printer + ~$319 supplies
HP OfficeJet Pro 9125e~$533
~$229 printer + ~$304 supplies
HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e~$583
~$279 printer + ~$304 supplies

purchase priceink or toner. An estimate: purchase price plus 5,000 pages at each printer’s computed cost per page, assuming 4 mono pages for every colour page. Printers whose consumable price we could not source are left out.