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The best mul­ti­func­tion print­ers are more than just a sim­ple way to print. They pro­vide excel­lent scan­ning, copy­ing and some­times fax­ing. Find­ing the best MFP is no easy task. You need to clear­ly under­stand the dif­fer­ence between sim­ple, high-qual­i­ty print­ing and clum­sy oper­a­tions that result in fuzzy and blur­ry doc­u­ments. Fea­tures such as Wi-Fi Direct make it easy to print from your phone or lap­top, while auto­mat­ic two-sided print­ing allows you to print on front and back pages with­out hav­ing to turn pages man­u­al­ly.

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Editor’s Choice

1. Canon PIXMA TS9140 (from 16 thousand rubles)

The Canon Pix­ma TS9140 is one of the best all-in-ones, thanks in large part to its excel­lent print qual­i­ty for both text and pho­tos. With six sep­a­rate col­or inks, we get good col­or qual­i­ty when print­ing pho­tos. Scan­ning and copy­ing pro­vide sharp detail repro­duc­tion at decent speeds. The entire device is con­trolled by an adjustable 5″ col­or touch screen. Of the fea­tures — this print­er even prints labels on CDs and DVDs (although who needs blanks now).

Main characteristics

Device	4‑in‑1 col­or inkjet print­er
Print speed	15 ppm
Paper sizes	up to A4
Paper capac­i­ty	100
The weight	6.7 kg

Fast print and scan speeds, very fast col­or copy­ing, large 5‑inch col­or touch screen

Ink runs out quick­ly

2. Epson L7180 (from 43 thousand rubles)

Whether you love plain or glossy pho­to paper, this inkjet print­er deliv­ers great pho­tos and graph­ics. The Epson print­er, as the man­u­fac­tur­er indis­creet­ly states in its brochures, “is the best pho­to print­er we’ve seen.” The all-in-one also lets you print pho­tos almost twice as fast as the aver­age inkjet print­er. Text print­ing isn’t very crisp, but it’s leg­i­ble and will suit all but the most demand­ing users. And the speed the MFP offers when print­ing pho­tos extends to doc­u­ment print­ing as well as scan­ning and copy­ing.

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3. Canon MAXIFY MB5440 (from 13 thousand rubles)

If you’re look­ing for an all-in-one print­er for work and home, the Canon Max­i­fy MB5440 is a sol­id work­horse at a rea­son­able price. The MFP can han­dle up to 30,000 pages per month and boasts a pair of paper trays that can hold up to 250 pages each. Scan­ning and copy­ing and built-in fax­ing are great addi­tions for small busi­ness­es. In addi­tion, the MB5440 has fast print­ing that is almost as good as a laser print­er, fast sim­plex and duplex copy­ing, and high qual­i­ty image print­ing.

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What other MFPs for the home are worth paying attention to

4. Canon PIXMA TR8540 (from 15 thousand rubles)

Like many Canon inkjet print­ers, this com­pact all-in-one uses five sep­a­rate ink car­tridges to print bright and nat­ur­al pho­tos on glossy paper. This MFP also has a fax machine, an auto­mat­ic doc­u­ment feed­er and a high res­o­lu­tion scan­ner. Print speeds are frankly slow, even for inkjet print­ing, but very easy to use thanks to the large touch­screen dis­play and Blue­tooth and Wi-Fi con­nec­tiv­i­ty. Espe­cial­ly if you’re not in a hur­ry.

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5. HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227fdw (from 20 thousand rubles)

If you have a lot of free space, this mul­ti­func­tion­al device will be your reli­able com­pan­ion with its con­sis­tent­ly sharp print qual­i­ty, use­ful 35-sheet auto­mat­ic doc­u­ment feed­er and auto­mat­ic copy­ing skills. Faster than any inkjet print­er, this mono machine offers an attrac­tive com­bi­na­tion of fea­tures and per­for­mance.

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6. Epson WorkForce Pro WF-C5790DWF (from 36 thousand rubles)

This mul­ti­func­tion print­er won’t win any beau­ty con­tests for sure, but its impres­sive fea­ture set is what sets it apart from the com­pe­ti­tion. It can hold 80 sheets of paper and print faster than many laser print­ers. Being an inkjet print­er, its col­or repro­duc­tion is strong and also eco­nom­i­cal, espe­cial­ly if you upgrade to Epson’s high per­for­mance car­tridges. Every­thing we can think of — from fax­ing to cloud print­ing — is imple­ment­ed by this device.

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7. Lexmark MB2236adw (from 11 thousand rubles)

The pow­er­ful Lex­mark All-In-One is rugged and durable for the home office. There is enough space for paper and ton­er, so the rec­om­mend­ed pur­chase of con­sum­ables will not be as com­mon as in the case of com­peti­tors. With duplex scan­ning as well as print­ing, the device becomes a first-class pho­to­copi­er. It’s not the fastest laser print­er out there, but plen­ty of secu­ri­ty fea­tures and a sim­ple inter­face more than make up for it.

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8. Canon i‑SENSYS MF735Cx (from 34 thousand rubles)

The print speed of this MFP is impres­sive — there’s room for 250 sheets of paper in the main tray and anoth­er 50 for the mul­ti-pur­pose tray. the labor force print­ed up to 6,300 mono­chrome or 5,000 col­or pages.

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9. Xerox VersaLink C405DN (from 55 thousand rubles)

If you can find a place in your home for this huge four-in-one laser device, it will almost cer­tain­ly meet your print­ing, scan­ning and copy­ing needs. The MFP has a very high capac­i­ty for ton­er and paper, hold­ing 550 sheets in the main paper tray and anoth­er 150 in the mul­ti­pur­pose tray. It pho­to­copies and prints very quick­ly, and the large touch­screen inter­face is the most advanced you’ll find on the front of any print­er. In short, this is a pow­er­ful all-in-one laser for heavy loads.

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10. Canon MAXIFY MB2740 (from 7 thousand rubles)

This big black box con­tains every­thing you need from a mul­ti­func­tion­al device. In addi­tion to fax­ing, print­ing, scan­ning and copy­ing, it has a fast and reli­able auto­mat­ic doc­u­ment feed­er and a large col­or touch screen. The two paper trays hold 500 sheets of paper, mak­ing them ide­al for heavy work­loads and high-speed inkjet print­ers. Print qual­i­ty in both col­or and mono is equal­ly impres­sive.

Main characteristics

4‑in‑1 col­or inkjet print­er | Print speed: 23ppm | Paper sizes: up to A4 | Paper capac­i­ty: 500 | Weight: 12.1 kg

How to choose an MFP

How to choose the right MFP will tell us Dmit­ry Meleshin, head of the com­put­er salon “Sta­tus”.

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For home or office?

The sin­gle most use­ful way to clas­si­fy MFPs is to clas­si­fy them by pur­pose: home, office, or both. If you’re look­ing for a home MFP, you prob­a­bly care about pho­to qual­i­ty, which means an inkjet print­er is a must-have among the fea­tures. Also, if pho­tog­ra­phy is your pri­ma­ry inter­est and you’re look­ing for a way to print from vir­tu­al­ly any source, you need a pho­to lab MFP. True, there are sev­er­al options in this sub­cat­e­go­ry: you can iden­ti­fy them by their abil­i­ty to scan slides and film strips, which most MFPs over­look.

Functions and Features

Going beyond the gen­er­al notions of home and office MFPs, it’s help­ful to make a list of the fea­tures you real­ly need. Print­ing, scan­ning, and copy­ing is a giv­en, but even those basics aren’t as easy as you might think. For exam­ple, some MFPs are lim­it­ed to scan­ning over a USB con­nec­tion. If you plan to con­nect via a net­work, make sure that this func­tion is pro­vid­ed by the MFP. The abil­i­ty to scan trans­paren­cies is unusu­al enough that it is often sin­gled out as a sep­a­rate fea­ture. Be sure to check the dimen­sions that the MFP can han­dle; trans­paren­cies are often lim­it­ed to 35mm.

The fax fea­ture almost always includes offline trans­mis­sion, which you con­trol using the MFP’s key­board. But it does­n’t nec­es­sar­i­ly include PC Fax — fax­ing doc­u­ments direct­ly from your com­put­er with­out hav­ing to print them first. Be care­ful if this fea­ture is impor­tant to you. Email fea­tures also come in two forms. The Direct Email fea­ture allows you to scan and send email direct­ly to your Inter­net Ser­vice Provider (ISP) or inter­nal mail serv­er on your net­work. The most com­mon option for low-end MFPs is to open an email mes­sage on a PC and add the scanned doc­u­ment as an attach­ment.

Most MFPs include flatbeds suit­able for scan­ning pho­tos or sin­gle-page doc­u­ments. The Auto­mat­ic Doc­u­ment Feed­er (ADF) lets you eas­i­ly scan (as well as copy, fax and e‑mail) mul­ti­page doc­u­ments.

Color print

If you nev­er print in col­or, then there is no rea­son to spend mon­ey on this fea­ture. How­ev­er, keep in mind that many col­or laser MFPs can print at fair­ly high qual­i­ty. This will allow you to print your own mar­ket­ing mate­ri­als, which is cheap­er than print­ing from a print shop.

Printer size

MFPs tend to be larg­er than sin­gle-func­tion print­ers. And some home MFPs can be so tall that they tow­er over you when placed on a table. Be sure to check the size and weight of the MFP, although you prob­a­bly won’t be mov­ing it very often.

Connection option

In addi­tion to a USB port, many MFPs include Eth­er­net and/or Wi-Fi con­nec­tions for easy shar­ing. If you pre­fer Wi-Fi, keep in mind that if you must have a wire­less access point on your net­work. Some MFPs now include Wi-Fi Direct, allow­ing com­pat­i­ble devices to con­nect to them with­out the need for a wire­less hotspot.

Quality and Quantity

In addi­tion to check­ing the print qual­i­ty, you may need to check the scan qual­i­ty. This is not a prob­lem for offices, because almost any scan­ner can scan doc­u­ments with high enough qual­i­ty. When cal­cu­lat­ing the duty cycle and input required for the MFP, be sure to add copies and incom­ing fax­es to the total num­ber of pages you will be print­ing.

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