PC Magazine recently tested 31 to determine the best in three categories. These are printers that will most likely be used with a single computer. They can range from portables to heavy-duty models. Ink jets have become the printer of choice for home and small office environments. Laser printers are still the more common choice in larger office environments, and they're keeping their lead where you need heavy-duty text, due in part to their declining costs.
Ink jets are, however, still the choice when photo quality is an issue.
MFP features can vary by manufacturer, so it's important to do your research in order to make sure what you require is part of the package. Canon, Epson and HP still make printers that are optimized for such cases. While a number of these are decent all-around printers, since they are made specifically for photo printing, tests showed them to be slower than the others when it comes to text. One thing that surprised us in our testing was the cost of printing. PC Magazine did calculations of cost of printing and discovered that prints from some of the more expensive printers ended up costing only half as much as those from much cheaper printers.