The best home printer we’ve tested is the Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550, a supertank inkjet all-in-one. It produces sharp, high-quality documents as well as incredibly detailed and colorful photos. You can connect to the printer via Wi-Fi, USB, or Ethernet and print directly from an SD card. Its flatbed scanner performs incredibly well, as it can pick up even the tiniest details, so it’s excellent for digitizing your old photos. There isn’t an automatic document feeder, so you’ll have to scan multi-page documents manually.

Like most supertank printers, its ink tank yields thousands of prints, and replacement ink is cheap, so you don’t need to worry about high maintenance costs. As for printing speed and paper support, it’s pretty fast, taking about 50 seconds to print a 4″ x 6″ photo, and it prints on paper up to 13″ x 19″ in size. If you don’t need wide-format printing, you can go with the cheaper Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 variant. It gives you the same print quality but only supports paper sizes up to 8.5″ x 11″. The one thing to remember is that this is a photo printer first, so if you only plan on printing documents, you can easily find cheaper models suitable for that task, like some of the mid-range options below.

• Cartridge-free printing for lab-quality photos, graphics and creative projects — get vibrant colors and sharp text with Epson’s high-accuracy printhead and Claria ET Premium 6-color inks; print a 4 x 6″ photo in as fast as 15 seconds (4)
• Extraordinary media handling capabilities —print borderless pictures up to 8.5″ x 11″ on a variety of paper types including cardstock, CD/DVDs and other specialty media up to 1.3 mm thick; auto 2-sided printing
• Amazing value — save a ridiculous amount on photos (1) and creative projects with affordable in-house photo printing; print 4″ x 6″ photos for about 4 cents each vs. 40 cents with traditional ink cartridges (1)
• Save up to 80% with low-cost replacement ink bottles vs. ink cartridges (3) — that’s about Dollar-2000 on each set (3), enough ink to print up to 6,200 pages color (5)
• Print up to 2 years (2) — with each included and replacement ink bottle set
• Zero-cartridge waste — with high-yield ink bottles; each replacement ink bottle set is equivalent to about 100 individual ink cartridges (6)
• Print, scan and more from your mobile device (7) with Epson Smart Panel app (8) — set up, monitor and operate your printer directly from your mobile device; supports iOS and Android