5 Printers Everyone IGNORES That Beat The $700+ Flagships

This video ranks five underrated printers that cost less to run than seven-hundred-dollar flagship models: the Epson EcoTank ET-2850, Canon imageCLASS MF455dw, Brother HL-L3280CDW, Canon MAXIFY GX4020, and Epson EcoTank ET-15000. The video argues that a printer's sticker price and its real cost are different numbers, and that flagship pricing often reflects marketing more than performance. It compares five printers on cost per page, paper capacity, included ink or toner, and what an owner pays over two to three years. The picks are ranked from impressive to absolutely ridiculous value and span refillable tank inkjets, a monochrome laser, a color laser, and a wide-format photo printer. Several of the models are shown to share engines, ink systems, or toner designs with pricier business lines. What's covered in this video: The introduction claims that a cheaper printer on the same shelf can out-perform a flagship, and that endcap displays, influencer unboxing videos, and salesperson scripts steer shoppers toward the expensive model. Number one is the Epson EcoTank ET-2850, a roughly two-hundred-dollar bottle-fed printer that ships with ink for about 7,500 black-and-white pages and runs at about three-tenths of a cent per black page. Number two is the Canon imageCLASS MF455dw, a monochrome laser that prints 40 pages per minute, includes duplex printing and Wi-Fi Direct, and expands from a 250-sheet tray to 900 sheets for a price in the low four hundreds. Number three is the Brother HL-L3280CDW, a color laser that launched at $299, uses four toner cartridges rated for over a thousand pages each, and shares its core engine family with Brother's business HL and MFC lines. Number four is the Canon MAXIFY GX4020, a refillable MegaTank office printer at about $500 with 5,000 black and 5,000 color pages of ink included, a 35-sheet automatic document feeder, and a color touchscreen, compared here with the Canon MAXIFY GX7020 and with laser multifunction printers. Number five is the Epson EcoTank ET-15000, a 13-by-19-inch wide-format printer with a flatbed scanner, copier, fax, and Ethernet, marked down from about $700 to roughly $500, alongside the EcoTank Photo ET-8550, which dropped from $749 to around $650. The video closes by stating that the most expensive printer is not automatically the best performer, and that cost per page, real paper capacity, and ongoing costs two years after purchase are the numbers that matter. Mentioned in this video: PrintWorth, Epson, Canon, Brother, Epson EcoTank ET-2850, Epson EcoTank Pro, Canon imageCLASS MF455dw, Brother HL-L3280CDW, Brother HL series, Brother MFC series, Canon MAXIFY GX4020, Canon MAXIFY GX MegaTank line, Canon MAXIFY GX7020, Epson EcoTank ET-15000, Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8000 series, Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550, Best Buy, Walmart, EcoTank ink system, bottle-fed ink tanks, piezo print head engine, pigment-based black ink, dye-based color ink, cost per page, total cost of ownership, duplex printing, Wi-Fi Direct, automatic document feeder, flatbed scanner, Ethernet, fax, wide-format printing, 13-by-19-inch prints, monochrome laser, color laser, toner cartridges, high-yield toner, inkjet, paper capacity, home office printing, small office printing, photo printing #printers #printerreview #budgetprinters #hometechreviews #ecotank #megatank #laserprinter #inkjetprinter #canonprinter #epsonprinter #brotherprinter #homeoffice For any questions or inquiries, please contact us at : printworthcontact@gmail.com © PrintWorth 2026