Caution, wide load? Not here! If you need to produce occasional 11x17-inch documents, these printers will do the job—and they're no slouches with smaller paper, either.
If we had to name this emerging group of printers, we'd call them ",the Occasional Oversizers.", They're a mixed bag, though, and their dynamics change every time one of the major makers introduces a new oversize-capable model. But they're here to stay, as more and more buyers take a fling on these models and realize just how handy it is to be able to print to big sheets now and then. You no longer have to compress and shrink that complex spreadsheet to a single page, or tape together tiled sheets. And the ability to do a one-off giant vacation-picture print for framing is nice—and these printers are, generally speaking, very capable of fine photo output.
Pricing on these models varies a bit, but most of the all-in-one machines range from $150 to $300, with the Epson Stylus Photo R2000 we reviewed a dedicated wide-format exception. (You can see live pricing on them below.) If you're looking for the ability to output bigger-than-letter-size every now and then, here are the main things to know.
PAPER-SIZE TERMINOLOGY. The most common inkjet ",oversize", paper is known as tabloid stock, or 11x17-inch. All of the printers we've rounded up below support tabloid printing. A couple of them, however, notably the HP Officejet 7610 Wide Format e-All-in-One and Epson WorkForce WF-7520 . also support 13x19-inch media, or supertabloid. Tabloid and supertabloid printing are referred to collectively as ",wide-format", output.
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