Can anyone recommend a good budget wireless printer?

[4forMe]

I am looking to buy at least 2 wireless printers for Christmas gifts this year. I see there are several on sale during Black Friday. Can anyone recommend one for under $100? My main concern is to get a printer that prints relatively quickly.

 

[lizabu]

I have the Kodak Office Hero. It was somewhere around $100. It seems to print out quickly enough. Plus if I managed to figure out how to print wirelessly from my computer and ipad anyone can figure it out.

 

[Praying Colonel]

After trying 2 and having trouble with each, we got an HP1102W and have been pleased. It's a monochrome laser printer, so it doesn't do color but has been very reliable.

 

[LJSquishy]

Color or B&W? Does it also need to copy/scan?

I'm not a fan at all of inkjet printers because if you don't use them constantly, the ink dries out. My last inkjet cartridge only printed 6-10 pages before it was dried out because I don't print very often. What a waste. A lot of HPs are ink hogs...not sure about other brands like Canon. I much prefer laser printers because the toner (ie: ink) is actually a powder so if you don't use it for 3 or 4 months, it will still be good as new.

For a very basic laser printer, I recommend this one: http://www.costco.com/Brother-HL-2270DW-Black-%26-White-Laser-Printer.product.11619745.html

I actually just purchased a refurbished Brother EHL-2280DW today for myself for about $60. It's like the one above but also does copy/scan. New it costs about $150.

If you want color printers and need to stay under $100, you'll have to go with an inkjet.

 

[sherry7]

I just purchased a CANON MG6320 all-in-one on Staples.com for $59.99 earlier today. It's available in either white (to match a Mac) or black. The price comes up as $109.99, with an automatic $50 off coupon. It does not have a fax, but I didn't really care about that feature.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

I have a Brother MFC-J435W that I bought from Best Buy less than a year ago. It cost me around $65. It is a wireless all-in-one printer (printer, fax, copier and scanner) and the ink is pretty cheap.

If you buy Brother brand ink it is about $30 to replace (much cheaper than the $60 I was spending on our HP printer) or you can buy generic ink from Amazon that is around $8 for 2 sets of cartridges. We buy the generic ink and it works just as well as the Brother brand ink IMO.

 

[Green Tea]

If you have iPhones or iMacs, it is probably worth whatever the price to get a wireless printer with AirPrint, or whatever the apple pairing is.

 

[4forMe]

OP here. Thanks for all the recommendations. One of the printers just needs to do basic printing in B & W. The other printer I get should do copying, scanning, print in both B&W and color, etc. I think I'm leaning towards the brother printer mentioned above from Best Buy for one of the purchases.

Thanks again!

 

[wiigirl]

I have a Brother MFC-J435W that I bought from Best Buy less than a year ago. It cost me around $65. It is a wireless all-in-one printer (printer, fax, copier and scanner) and the ink is pretty cheap.

If you buy Brother brand ink it is about $30 to replace (much cheaper than the $60 I was spending on our HP printer) or you can buy generic ink from Amazon that is around $8 for 2 sets of cartridges. We buy the generic ink and it works just as well as the Brother brand ink IMO.