Most home printers stop at letter, and a surprising number stop at letter even when the box says legal. These take genuinely large sheets — a tabloid spreadsheet, an A3 drawing, a framed 13 by 19 photograph. Check the scanner separately: several of these print big and scan small.
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
Canon PIXMA TS9520a~$791
~$299 printer + ~$492 supplies
Epson EcoTank ET-15000~$724
~$699 printer + ~$25 supplies
Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550~$822
~$799 printer + ~$23 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.
