The Best Laser Printers of 2024

The HP Color LaserJet Pro m479dw is much larger than other printers we’ve tested. It screams “I belong in a fancy office.” However, we were happy to set it up at home: connecting it to PC, Mac, and phone apps was almost effortless, and using the USB stick to print was a breeze. I’m pleased to say that the quality of the scanned capture was very crisp and color true. Documents printed on plain or heavyweight paper came out very good. Photo printing was clear, and there wasn’t a single streak. The advantage of the laser copier shows here—streaking simply isn’t a problem.

I did have some hiccups between paper changes; I had to tell it what kind of paper I was changing to sometimes more than once. When printing photos, the Color LaserJet Pro added a border much larger than those left by the other printers I tested.

In order to use the Lexmark MB2236, you’ll need to download two apps: the Lexmark Mobile Assistant app, which allows you to set up the printer, and the Lexmark Mobile Printing app, which lets you put it to work. The Mobile Assistant app made setting up the printer a breeze. Printing using Lexmark’s Mobile Printing app? Not so much. Print jobs created in the Mobile Printing app would queue but refused to print, with no way to clear the queue.

I experienced similar issues while attempting to print from my Windows and Apple laptops. After requesting that a document be printed, a small box would pop up in the corner of my computer’s display to tell me that the print job was queued; however, nothing would print. More frustrating than this, there was no way to clear the print queue. I turned to Lexmark’s troubleshooting suggestions to resolve these issues, but was unsuccessful in finding a solution. Be ready to connect to the MB2236 using a USB cable.

We haven’t tested this precise model, but it has nearly 5,000 five-star ratings on Amazon. Brother’s monochrome laser printer is a bulky, office-style laser model that can handle heavy-duty black-and-white print jobs—contracts and other legal documents, novel manuscripts, and so on. The automatic document feeder can handle about up to 50 sheets at a time, and though it has both copy and scan modes, it can only do double-sided printing; you’d have to scan each side of a document separately.

This color laser printer from Xerox claims to offer office-friendly performance, though we haven’t tested this exact model out ourselves. As advertised, it should hold up to 250 sheets of paper at once, as well as handling print speeds up to 24 pages per minute. It can print on various kinds of cardstock, and you can adjust the darkness level to conserve ink—letting you save money and be environmentally conscious. Reviewers love the print quality.

With print speeds of up to 32 pages per minute and a 250-sheet paper capacity, the Brother Monochrome Laser Printer scores high among Amazon reviews. Along with less paper refills you can also expect convenience from this printer’s up to 50-sheet document feeder to help save time with multi-page copy, scan and fax. This printer works with Alexa and can print wirelessly from your desktop, laptop, smartphone and tablet, making printing less of a chore.

If your computer doesn’t have a disc drive you’ll definitely have some trouble with the installation process and you’ll want to set aside plenty of time in order to complete the process. Reviews mention that despite the challenging installation process, the printer itself is efficient and that the print quality is fantastic. For basic printing and scanning tasks, this printer is worth looking into.