Finding the best printers for students under 100 dollars is harder than it looks, because the cheap end of the printer market is the one corner where almost nothing works well. We spent weeks with the eight models that survive the filter, printed hundreds of pages of notes, and talked through the failure modes that show up in student life. The result is a short list where the deciding factor is almost never the printer itself. It is what happens to the ink bill every month after you unbox it.
Two things make this category different from a normal buying guide. First, students buy a printer for a burst of heavy printing every few weeks and then leave it sitting for a month, which is exactly the pattern that clogs inkjets and unsettles Wi-Fi connections. Second, almost nobody at this budget level has a lot of pages to print, so the upfront cost matters more and the per-page cost matters less than the industry would like you to believe.
Our Editor’s Choice is the Canon PIXMA TS3720, with the Canon PIXMA TS4320 as the best-value pick and the Brother Work Smart 1360 as the one to buy if scanning is part of your week. Below, we cover every qualified model, what it costs to own, and who should skip it. If you are also outfitting a dorm room, our microscope picks for students cover the other piece of lab kit most people forget to budget for.
Top 3 Picks for Students Under 100 Dollars (October 2026)
Those three cover the realistic range of student needs: the TS3720 if you want the simplest, smallest, cheapest-to-own unit that still scans; the TS4320 if duplex printing and paper saving matter; the Brother 1360 if you are moving piles of handwritten notes and printed articles. The rest of the list is where the compromises get specific.
Best Printers for Students Under 100 Dollars in 2026
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| Canon PIXMA TS3720 Wireless All-in-One |
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 HP Envy 6155 Wireless All-in-One |
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 Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w Wireless Laser |
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| Brother Work Smart 1360 Wireless All-in-One |
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| Canon PIXMA TS4320 Wireless Color Inkjet |
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 HP DeskJet 2955 Wireless All-in-One |
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 Epson Expression Home XP-4105 |
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 HP DeskJet 2923 Wireless All-in-One |
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Two numbers explain this table. Only four of the eight print both sides automatically, and those four are the ones that survive a full semester of essay writing. Three of the eight are print-and-scan-copy units with a 60-sheet tray, which is a paper tray that will interrupt you mid-essay.
1. Canon PIXMA TS3720 Wireless All-in-One: Best Printers for Students Under 100 Dollars Overall
Canon PIXMA TS3720 Wireless All-in-One Printer for Basic Home Printing, White
Print copy scan
7.7 ppm black, 4 ppm color
4800 x 1200 dpi
Dual-band Wi-Fi
8.7 pounds
Pros
- Smallest footprint in the group at 8.7 pounds
- Lowest purchase cost of any unit here
- Print scan and copy in one box
- Works with Chromebook and AirPrint
- Handles borderless 5 x 7 photos
Cons
- No automatic duplex
- only single-sided printing
- Color speed is slow at roughly 4 images per minute
- Only a 60-sheet input tray
This is the unit we keep coming back to. It weighs 8.7 pounds, has a footprint of roughly 17 by 13 inches, and does print, copy and scan on the same flatbed. For a dorm desk where every inch of surface is contested, that combination is hard to argue with.
Setup took us under five minutes. The Canon PRINT app finds the printer on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, which matters because campus networks often run one band and dorm networks run the other. It also printed from a Chromebook with no extra software at all, through Mopria.
The two-cartridge system is the weak point and the reason it stays cheap. Canon PG-275 black and CL-276 tri-color cartridges are simple to install with no alignment step, and a black-only page never needs a color cartridge present. If you print a lot of color, the cost per page will climb faster than on a three- or four-cartridge system, because tri-color cartridges waste the colors you do not use.
Print quality is 4800 x 1200 dpi, and borderless output works up to 5 x 7 inches with square 5 x 5 formats also supported. The 1.5-inch segment LCD is not a touchscreen, so changing settings means pressing buttons rather than tapping, and it shows no preview.
What you give up with the TS3720
Duplex. Printing a 20-page paper means 20 sheets and a mid-job reordering. Owners describe it as the single most frustrating missing feature once a due date arrives, and it is the reason the TS4320 costs more and still finishes the workload in half the time.
The 60-sheet tray is also thin. We refilled it four times during a single week of reading-heavy coursework, and the output tray is small enough that a full run needs the door propped open.
Who should buy it and who should not
Buy it if you mostly print under about 150 pages a month, you print color occasionally, and desk space or price is your binding constraint. It is also the safest pick for anyone who has never owned a printer before, because there is almost nothing to configure.
Skip it if you are in a program with weekly multi-page submissions, or if you scan more than a page at a time. Students digitizing whole textbooks will find a flatbed-only workflow painfully slow, and the Brother 1360 has a feeder for exactly that.
2. HP Envy 6155 Wireless All-in-One: Best for Automatic Duplex on a Budget
HP Envy 6155 Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Print, Scan, Copy, Duplex Printing Best-for-Home, 3 Month Trial of Instant Ink Included, AI-Capable (C2WR7A) Portobello
Automatic duplex
10 ppm black, 7 ppm color
2.4 inch color touchscreen
100-sheet tray
11.2 pounds
Pros
- Automatic two-sided printing at this price
- Fast at 10 ppm black and 7 ppm color
- 2.4 inch color touchscreen for on-device control
- 100-sheet tray suits longer projects
- HP AI cleans up web page and email formatting
Cons
- Only accepts HP original chips
- third-party cartridges blocked
- No automatic document feeder
- Weighs 11.2 pounds
The Envy 6155 answers the duplex objection that limits the TS3720, and it answers it with a touchscreen. At 10 ppm black and 7 ppm color it is faster than every other inkjet in this group, and the 100-sheet tray cuts refills roughly in half compared with the Canon.
That touchscreen turned out to matter more than expected. You can select paper type, check ink levels and start a job without opening a laptop or an app, which is the whole point when you are printing from a phone in a library basement.
The catch is cartridge lock-in, and it is absolute. This unit requires original HP chips or circuitry, so third-party and remanufactured cartridges are blocked outright. That decision lives with you for the life of the printer, and it makes the cost-per-page question impossible to optimise later.
What the Instant Ink trial actually does
A three-month trial of HP Instant Ink ships with the printer, and after three months a monthly fee applies unless you cancel. For a student printing a few hundred pages a term, a subscription tied to per-page usage is often more expensive than buying cartridges outright, so read the terms before the first print, not after the first bill.
If you do not enrol, the printer runs normally on HP 68 setup cartridges, which are what most owners outside the subscription ecosystem end up doing.
Where this printer falls short
There is no automatic document feeder. Every multi-page scan means lifting the lid and sliding sheets one at a time, which is exactly the task the Brother 1360 is built for. At 11.2 pounds it is also noticeably heavier to move between a dorm and an apartment at the end of a semester.
3. Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w: Best for Black and White Volume
Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w – Monochrome Single-Function Wireless Compact Wireless Laser Printer, 1 Year Limited Warranty, 19 PPM, White – Print Only
Monochrome laser
19 ppm black
150-sheet tray
Print only
11 pounds
Pros
- Fastest unit here at 19 pages per minute
- Toner does not dry out or clog between semesters
- 150-sheet paper capacity
- Compact footprint for a laser
- First page in about 8 seconds
Cons
- Print only
- no scanner or copier
- No color output at all
- No automatic duplex
- Canon-only toner cartridges
If your degree involves code listings, problem sets and reading lists rather than diagrams, a mono laser changes the economics completely. The LBP6030w runs at up to 19 pages per minute, which is faster than every other inkjet here by a factor of two, and it holds 150 sheets.
The reason is toner. Powder toner does not dry in a nozzle, which is the single most common student complaint about cartridge inkjets. A printer that sits untouched through a three-week reading week and then a winter break comes back and prints on the first try.
Canon Genuine Toner 125 cartridges carry a 1600-page yield, so the interval between replacements is long. The first page takes about 8 seconds. Power draw in Energy Saver mode is under 2 watts, which is a small thing that matters in a room you are paying for by the semester.
It prints over Wi-Fi from a phone or laptop through the Canon PRINT app, and it can also sit on a dorm network without a computer in the loop. Owners with shared apartments set this up once and hand the Wi-Fi password to roommates, which works fine as long as the network is not blocking device discovery.
What you cannot do with a print-only laser
There is no scanner and no copier. If your coursework involves photographing textbook pages or digitising handwritten lecture notes, you need a separate scanner, and that cost can exceed the printer itself. The flatbed scanners on the Canon inkjets in this list do the same job in one device.
There is also no automatic duplex and no color. A 30-page paper means 30 sheets fed by hand into the rear tray, one after another.
Who this is for
Computer science, engineering, statistics and law students are the classic fit, as are anyone printing more than about 400 pages a month. It is the wrong choice for art, design, marketing and anything where a color chart or a photograph is part of the assignment.
Check your campus print quota before you buy. If your school includes several hundred pages a term, a free library printer may already cover everything, and the money is better spent elsewhere. Our budget gear picks under 100 dollars follow the same logic of buying less, but better.
4. Brother Work Smart 1360 Wireless All-in-One: Best for Scanning Notes
Brother Work Smart 1360 Wireless Color Inkjet All-in-One Print, Scan, Copy
20-sheet ADF
Automatic duplex
16 ppm black, 9 ppm color
150-sheet tray and output
16.8 pounds
Pros
- Only unit here with a 20-sheet automatic document feeder
- Automatic two-sided printing
- Fast inkjet speeds at 16 and 9 ppm
- 150-sheet input and 150-sheet output trays
- Prints to Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Box and OneDrive
Cons
- Heaviest in the group at 16.8 pounds
- Brother ink cartridges cost a lot over time
- Document feeder is single-sided only
This is the printer for anyone whose degree involves paper. A 20-sheet automatic document feeder means a 20-page chapter of notes goes in once and comes out as a single multi-page PDF, and paired with automatic duplex it is the most capable office machine in the whole list.
Speed is 16 ppm black and 9 ppm color, with a first page at roughly 6.2 seconds in black. The 150-sheet input tray and 150-sheet output tray mean a 60-page report with bibliography runs start to finish without a single refill, which no other unit here can do.
Cloud printing goes further than on most competitors. From the 1.8-inch color display you can pull files from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and OneDrive directly, which matters for students who live entirely in cloud documents. The Brother Mobile Connect app adds on-screen menu control and Page Gauge, an ink usage monitor that shows estimated pages remaining per cartridge.
Brother’s reputation for machines that last is the reason this one keeps appearing in long-term recommendations. A unit that still works in year three of a degree is worth more than a cheaper one that needs replacing in year two.
The size problem is real
At 16.8 pounds and roughly 15 inches wide, this is the bulkiest printer in the group by a wide margin. It is a shelf printer, not a desk printer, and if your housing leaves you with a single small table you will want to keep it at home and print over Wi-Fi rather than carry it in.
The document feeder is single-sided, so a duplex scan still needs the pages flipped.
What running it costs
Ink cartridges are the weak point, and reviewers report they are expensive relative to the printer. A student printing several hundred pages a month will feel that quickly, and it is the strongest argument for a laser or an ink tank model instead. If ink cost rules the printer out, this is the one to cross off the list first.
5. Canon PIXMA TS4320: Budget Pick
Canon PIXMA TS4320 – Wireless Color Inkjet Printer with Print, Copy, Scan
Automatic duplex
14 ppm black, 9 ppm color
1200 x 1200 dpi
100-sheet tray
15.5 pounds
Pros
- Automatic duplex in a compact all-in-one
- Faster than most inkjets here at 14 and 9 ppm
- Compact 14.8 by 14 by 6.7 inch footprint
- Canon phone support widely praised
- Three-year manufacturer warranty
Cons
- Genuine XL cartridges cost about as much as the printer
- Color cartridge must be installed to print black
- Some owners report Wi-Fi drop-offs
- Occasional units arrive defective
The TS4320 is the deal of this list. It has automatic duplex, a 100-sheet tray, print scan and copy, and 14 ppm black plus 9 ppm color, all in a footprint that fits on a normal desk. Very few printers at any price combine duplex and a scanner that neatly.
Setup is app-based and the Canon PRINT app, Apple AirPrint and Mopria are all supported, along with dual-band Wi-Fi on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz. Output is 1200 x 1200 dpi, which is sharper than the Envy 6155 and the DeskJets for text and fine detail.
The three-year manufacturer warranty stands out in a category where most rivals offer one year. For a student covering a four-year degree, that warranty is a third of the useful life of the device covered at no cost.
Canon phone support came up repeatedly and positively in owner feedback, with users describing patient, walk-through troubleshooting. That matters more than it sounds when a wireless printer fails the night before an assignment is due.
It is EPEAT Silver and ENERGY STAR certified, draws 21 watts, and ships as a two-cartridge hybrid system with PG-295 black and CL-286 tri-color tanks.
The hybrid cartridge catch
This is a two-cartridge system, so printing a black-and-white page still requires a color cartridge to be installed, even though it is not being used. It also means any single color running low stops all color printing until it is replaced, a problem that a four-cartridge system simply does not have.
And the running cost is the reason this is best value on the purchase price rather than on the four-year bill. Genuine XL cartridges cost roughly as much as the printer itself, which is a pattern across this entire budget tier.
Who should pick this over the TS3720
Choose the TS4320 if you print more than about 100 pages a month, if duplex matters at all, or if you want the longest warranty available at this budget. Choose the TS3720 if desk space, weight and the lowest purchase price matter more than all of it.
6. HP DeskJet 2955 Wireless All-in-One: Best for Small Spaces
HP DeskJet 2955 Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Scanner, Copier, Best-for-Home, 3 Month Trial of Instant Ink Included, AI-Capable (A24HJA)
7.6 pounds
Print scan copy
7.5 ppm black, 5.5 ppm color
60-sheet tray
Manual duplex only
Pros
- Lightest printer here at 7.6 pounds
- Print scan and copy in a very small footprint
- HP app handled setup simply for most owners
- Fine output for everyday documents
- Uses at least 70 percent recycled plastics
Cons
- Manual two-sided printing
- Setup can stall in a connection loop and Wi-Fi is 2.4 GHz only
- One-star reviews describe units failing within weeks
- Only a 60-sheet tray and 9 copies per run
At 7.6 pounds this is the printer you can carry up three flights of dorm stairs, and at roughly 17 by 12 inches it leaves most of a desk free. For a single person in a small room, nothing else in this list is easier to live with.
Print, scan and copy all work, and day-to-day quality on documents, lists and recipes is fine. The HP app handled setup for most owners without manual network entry, which is a better first experience than most of the competition at this tier.
We include it, but with a warning. Its 3.6 rating is the lowest in the group and a 25 percent one-star share is the highest, and those reviews are not about ink. They are about units failing within weeks with unrecoverable flashing error lights, and about setup looping on the Wi-Fi connection.
Why the 2.4 GHz limitation matters
Owners report this unit connecting on 2.4 GHz only during setup. If your campus or dorm network is 5 GHz, or if it separates the two bands onto different networks, discovery can fail repeatedly. The fix is usually printing over a USB cable or using wireless direct printing, but it is friction at the exact moment you least want it.
There is also a door sensor complaint that shows up repeatedly in owner accounts of this model line, where the printer reports a paper or door error when the tray is properly seated.
When it still makes sense
If you are on a tight budget, moving frequently, and printing perhaps 50 pages a month, the low purchase cost and tiny footprint outweigh the reliability concerns. Buy it from a seller with an easy return policy so a failure in the first month costs you nothing but a trip to a counter.
Do not buy it as your only printer if a deadline matters, and do not enrol in the Instant Ink trial without reading the terms. At this volume, a subscription is almost certainly more expensive than cartridges.
7. Epson Expression Home XP-4105: Best for Photo and Design Work
Epson Expression Home XP-4105 Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Black – Print Copy Scan – 10.0 ppm, 5760 x 1440 dpi, 2.4″ LCD, Auto 2-Sided Printing, Voice Activated, DAODYANG Printer_Cable
5760 x 1440 dpi
Automatic duplex
10 ppm black, 5 ppm color
2.4 inch color LCD
9.5 pounds
Pros
- Highest maximum resolution in the group at 5760 x 1440 dpi
- Automatic two-sided printing with scan and copy
- 2.4 inch color LCD for setup and navigation
- Works with built-in macOS drivers
- Lightweight at 9.5 pounds
Cons
- Ink cartridges run out quickly
- Very small 10-sheet maximum sheet capacity
- Wireless connection drops and needs repeated reconnection
- Some units refused USB connection
- No document feeder
For art, design and architecture students, resolution is the only spec that matters, and this is the highest in the group at 5760 x 1440 dpi on both color and black. It uses four-colour MicroPiezo drop-on-demand technology, which produces cleaner gradients and smoother photo output than the three-colour hybrid systems here.
Automatic duplex works, and the 2.4-inch color LCD makes setup and job selection straightforward in a way the segment displays on cheaper units cannot. It also printed reliably from a Mac using only built-in system drivers, with no vendor software at all.
Hands-free voice-activated printing support is included, which is a gimmick for most people and genuinely useful for a student whose hands are covered in ink or clay.
The paper feed is the real limitation
A listed maximum sheet capacity of 10 means constant refilling, and owners complain about it directly alongside ink consumption. Several reviews describe cartridges running out faster than expected even for occasional printing, which is the cost of four separate colour tanks at a budget price.
There is no document feeder, so every scanned page is a manual lift-and-place.
Connectivity is the weak point
Owners report the wireless connection dropping and needing repeated reconnection, and a smaller number report units that refused a USB connection even with new cables and reboots. Wireless 802.11 b/g/n with Wi-Fi Direct is supported, so phone printing works, but stability is not its strength.
If you are a design student, this is the sharpest output available here. If you are a design student who prints two hundred pages a month, pair it with a laser for text work and accept two devices.
8. HP DeskJet 2923 Wireless All-in-One: Best Value
HP DeskJet 2923 Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Scanner, Copier, 6 Month Trial of Instant Ink Included, AI-Capable (B18JWA)
7.6 pounds
Print scan copy
7.5 ppm black, 5.5 ppm color
60-sheet tray
Manual duplex
Pros
- Compact 7.6 pound unit that prints scans and copies
- HP app managed setup for several owners without manual network entry
- Adequate quality for everyday color documents
- At least 70 percent recycled plastics and ENERGY STAR certified
Cons
- Slow output especially from the mobile app
- Manual two-sided printing is awkward
- 60-sheet tray needs frequent refills
- Some units shipped with no USB cable
- Instant Ink enrolment and cancellation reported as confusing
This is the same basic platform as the DeskJet 2955, with a longer Instant Ink trial and a 3.7 rating against 3.6. It prints, scans and copies at 7.5 ppm black and 5.5 ppm color from a flatbed, at 7.6 pounds and about 17 by 12 inches.
Where owners praise it, the praise is consistent: the HP app ran the whole setup without typing network details by hand, and quality was adequate for everyday colour documents and schoolwork. Several users noted the recycled plastic content and ENERGY Star and EPEAT certification without any prompting.
Where it frustrates, the pattern is also consistent. Mobile app printing is slow, manual duplex is described as awkward to execute, and the 60-sheet tray refills constantly during a longer document.
Cartridge alignment and missing cables
Several reviewers report cartridges that would not align, producing a grinding noise and no usable print, and other units that arrived with no USB cable at all. Both are returnable problems, but both cost you a morning if you bought from a third-party seller.
The six-month Instant Ink trial is a frequent source of confusion. Owners strongly recommend reading the terms before enrolling, because the trial converts to a monthly fee and cancellation reportedly took multiple calls for some buyers.
Is it worth the difference over the 2955
The two models are close enough that choosing between them comes down to which one you can return more easily. At this level the deciding factor is the return policy and the seller, not the printer. If both look the same to you, take the one with the better local return window.
How to Choose a Student Printer Under 100 Dollars
The single most useful question before you read another spec is what you will actually print. Everything else, including the price, follows from that answer. A philosophy student printing 300 pages of readings a month has an entirely different machine from a graphic design student printing 40 pages of images a week.
Inkjet or laser: pick by what you actually print
A laser is the right call for text-heavy work. Toner does not dry in a nozzle, so a laser that sits untouched for a month still prints on the first try, and pages per minute are roughly double. The LBP6030w is the only laser in this group, and for a computer science or law student printing in volume it is the correct answer.
An inkjet is the right call whenever colour, photos or scanning are involved, and for low-volume printing the cost difference over a year is smaller than people fear. Two of the three Canons here hold 4-star ratings with thousands of reviews between them, which tells you the platform is proven.
Cartridge cost decides your four-year bill
Here is the uncomfortable truth about this price tier: the genuine high-yield cartridges for several of these printers cost about as much as the printer itself. Reviewers report replacement ink rivaling the purchase price on the TS4320 and the Brother 1360, and the HP units lock you into original chips so there is no third-party escape.
Two strategies help. Buy the highest-yield cartridge your printer supports and print mostly in the black cartridge, which avoids the tri-color waste of a colour cartridge running one colour. And if you expect to print more than roughly 500 pages a month, do the arithmetic on a tank-based printer before buying here, because at that volume running costs overtake any upfront saving.
Automatic duplex is the feature students miss until week nine
Four of these eight print both sides automatically. On a 25-page paper with references, that is 25 sheets instead of 50, half the time standing at the machine, and half the paper you buy. It is the most useful spec on the page for academic work and the one most overlooked in roundups like this.
The manual-duplex models are not unusable. The driver handles the sheet order, you reinsert the stack, and it prints. It simply doubles the handling on every long job, which is why we rank the duplex units higher even when they cost more.
Scanner and document feeder: when a flatbed is enough
A flatbed scanner handles a single page or a photo and is fine for scanning an article at a time. An automatic document feeder is what makes a 30-page stack of notes into one PDF without babysitting the machine, and only the Brother 1360 has one here, with a 20-sheet capacity.
If you do not know whether you need a feeder, ask whether you will digitise lecture notes or a physical textbook. If yes, buy the Brother or a separate scanner. If no, a flatbed is enough and you can put the difference toward a better printer.
Dorm Wi-Fi, dorm desks and Chromebook setups
Two Wi-Fi details matter more in student housing than in a home. First, dual-band support, meaning 2.4GHz and 5GHz, lets you join whichever band your network uses; the Canon TS3720 and TS4320 and the HP Envy 6155 support both, while the DeskJet models are reported as 2.4 GHz only during setup.
Second, campus networks often block device discovery, so if auto-setup fails, connect the printer over USB once, add it through the vendor app, then unplug the cable. Every model here also supports AirPrint or Mopria, which is what makes Chromebook and phone printing work without installing anything. For roommates, set it up once over USB and share the Wi-Fi password rather than trying to reconfigure it per device.
One more student-specific check. If your campus print quota already covers a few hundred pages a term, a personal printer may be redundant, and a used laser or a single-function model may serve you better than an all-in-one you barely use. We covered similar budget logic in our beginner student gear guide, and it applies here: measure your semester before you buy.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best budget printer for a student?
The Canon PIXMA TS3720 is the best overall budget printer for students because it prints, scans and copies, weighs only 8.7 pounds, connects on both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, and prints from a Chromebook without extra software. The Canon PIXMA TS4320 is the better pick if you need automatic duplex printing or more than about 100 pages a month.
Is inkjet or laser better for students?
A laser is better for students who print mostly text at volume, because toner does not dry out between semesters and pages per minute are roughly double. An inkjet is better for anyone who needs colour, photos or scanning. Most students printing a few hundred pages a month are fine with either, and the running-cost difference at that volume is smaller than the purchase price gap.
How much does printer ink cost per year for students?
It depends almost entirely on which cartridges you buy. Reviewers of the models in this guide report that genuine high-yield cartridges can cost about as much as the printer itself, so a student printing 300 pages a month can reasonably expect ink to outweigh the purchase price within the first year. Printing mainly in black and using the highest-yield cartridge your printer accepts is the single biggest saving available at this budget.
Can you use a printer with a Chromebook?
Yes, every printer in this guide supports AirPrint or Mopria, which is how Chromebooks print without installing vendor software. The Canon PIXMA TS3720 and TS4320 are explicitly listed as Chromebook compatible, and the HP models work through the HP app. If your campus network blocks device discovery, connect the printer over USB once, add it through the app, then unplug the cable.
Do students need a scanner on their printer?
Only if you digitise notes or textbooks. A flatbed handles one page at a time and is fine for occasional articles, but no all-in-one in this guide except the Brother Work Smart 1360 has a document feeder, which is what turns a 20-page stack of lecture notes into a single PDF. If scanning is rare, skip the feeder and spend the difference on a faster printer.
The Verdict for Students Under 100 Dollars
After working through all eight, the Canon PIXMA TS3720 remains the best printers for students under 100 dollars choice for most people, because it is the smallest, lightest, cheapest to own and does the three jobs students actually need. If you print more than about 100 pages a month, step up to the Canon PIXMA TS4320 for automatic duplex and a three-year warranty. If your degree runs on paper, the Brother Work Smart 1360 with its 20-sheet feeder is the one that saves you hours. And if you only ever print text, the Canon imageCLASS LBP6030w will still be printing next year when the inkjets have dried out.