The HP Envy 6455e All-In-One prints well and, if you sign up for HP's Instant Ink subscription program, inexpensively, making it a decent value for light duty in homes and home offices.
Whether you need a printer for work from home tasks, family printing needs, or both, picking the right printer can be a challenge. We’ve picked the best printer for you based on budget and feature set.
Printer Reality Check
Printer Reality Check Tue, 1 Jun 2021, 6:06PM
Come on, it s time to get real. We can t keep using printers they way we have been.
Something got seriously out of whack somewhere along the way and it suddenly became cheaper to buy a new printer than to replace the cartridges.
Obviously, that kind of printer is not a high quality printer but if all you re doing is printing off the occasional greeting card, a few recipes and the kids homework assignments, something cheap and nasty might just do the trick.
Until it runs out of ink.
Then it s moral dilemma time, isn t it? You know you re not supposed to throw whole printers away. especially when they re in perfectly good working order - but sometimes it s literally cheaper to replace the whole thing.
Cost-Saving Ink Strategies
One of the most common printer-related complaints is that ink is too expensive. You can pour a lot of money into replacing cartridges, which all-too-frequently have modest capacities and deplete quickly. Generally, the more expensive the printer, the lower its ink costs will be. Often, budget-price home inkjet printers and all-in-ones have the highest costs per printed page, bringing to mind the old strategy of giving away the razor to fleece you on the blades.
The good news is that in recent years most of the major printer manufacturers have introduced inkjets with unheard-of low running costs, employing a variety of strategies to do so. HP sells ink on several subscription plans through its Instant Ink program, which can offer considerable savings on color costs. Other companies, including Brother, Epson, and Canon, offer similar (though non-subscription-based) cost-saving initiatives.