The best photo printers for your home

For most people who want to print their photos at home, and print them big, the EcoTank Photo ET-8550 is the one to get. It prints borderless up to 13x19 inches, and because it runs on refillable ink bottles, a 4x6 costs only about 4 to 6 cents in ink. The bottles in the box are good for roughly 2,300 4x6 prints. Its six inks include a gray and a photo black, which help with smooth black-and-white prints, and it also scans, copies and prints documents.

Its colors run vivid out of the box, sometimes too vivid: Digital Camera World recommends switching off Epson's Photo Enhance setting, and RTINGS finds some colors inaccurate. Pro printers like the PRO-310 have a wider color range. It was also out of stock at Epson in October 2026, with prices from about $600 to $750 elsewhere, so it's worth shopping around.

If print quality comes first, the imagePROGRAF PRO-310 is the best 13x19 printer you can buy. RTINGS names it its top photo printer, with outstanding color accuracy and some of the best image quality it has ever measured. Its nine pigment inks, plus a clear Chroma Optimizer coat, produce deep blacks on matte and fine-art papers and keep bronzing down on glossy ones, and it has a manual slot for thick fine-art sheets.

That quality costs more to run. Its small 14.4 ml cartridges work out to roughly 28 to 34 cents of ink per 4x6 at worst-case coverage, many times the ET-8550's cost, and it's slow: a large borderless print takes six to nine minutes. It doesn't scan. Buy it if you sell, exhibit or frame your work.

If you print photos up to letter size and want the lowest running costs of all, the PIXMA G620 is the value pick. Canon rates a set of its six refillable ink bottles at about 3,800 4x6 photos, which works out to under 3 cents of ink per print at today's prices. Its red and gray inks broaden its colors, and PCMag found its prints brilliantly and accurately colored. It also scans and copies.

It's slow, at about 47 seconds per 4x6, and basic to operate, with button controls and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only. Letter size is its limit. Some of its ink bottles were out of stock at Canon in October 2026, so check before you commit.

For 4x6 snapshots, nothing is simpler than the SELPHY CP1500. It's a compact dye-sublimation printer: ink and paper come together in one kit, and each print gets a clear protective coat, so it comes out dry, water-resistant and ready to hand round in about 41 seconds. There are no inks to dry out or clog, which makes it ideal for people who print in bursts. PCMag rates it its best conventional-size snapshot printer.

Prints cost about 37 to 39 cents each at Canon's list prices, and 4x6 is the largest size. The battery is an expensive option, and it connects over 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi only. Read our [full review](/reviews/canon-selphy-cp1500-review).

For prints up to 17x22 inches, the imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 is PCMag's top pro-grade photo printer. Its eleven pigment inks produce exceptionally deep blacks and wide color, and its black-and-white mode prints truly neutral grays. Its large 80 ml cartridges cost about half as much per milliliter as the PRO-310's, so big prints are cheaper to make.

It's a serious machine: about $1,400, 71 pounds, and it needs a two-person lift. There's no roll-paper support, which Epson's SureColor P900 offers. It's for photographers who regularly print large.