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1 September 2021

Top five best A3 printers for 2021

A3 printers are great for printing posters, graphics or large document pages. Find out which A3 printers we'd recommend, and which you should avoid altogether.

Hollie Hennessy

A3 printers let you super-charge your printing sizes for posters, signs or even large photos. But, as they can easily cost over £200, it's important to pick a model that produces great-looking prints.

Here, we point you towards the best A3 printers. Our recommended A3 models are fast and have low running costs. The same can't be said of all A3 printers - we've also identified three duds you'll want to avoid.

The top five best A3 printers below have gone through comprehensive, independent lab tests, ensuring that they're worth your money.

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Top five best A3 printers

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£673.64
This Best Buy A3 all-in-one printer might be expensive, but it's one of the cheapest to run. It’ll do a good job at printing a range of documents – especially colour. Plus, you'll find an automatic document feeder and auto duplexing.
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64%
£219.99
This inkjet printer is fantastic for office graphics and black text, but it misses out on a Best Buy because it’s quite expensive to run. There aren’t that many models to choose from when it comes to A3 printing, so this one will probably be on your shortlist.
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£249.99
This model isn’t the sharpest we’ve seen for text, but photos and graphics look great, and it has a few nice features. The document feeder allows to you scan large documents without having to manually switch the pages out, while the duplex function lets you print double-sided automatically.
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£157.81
This big-brand printer can't scan or copy like some of our other A3 choices, but it is reasonably cheap to run and has good print quality on documents and office graphics. Overall, it's a good back-up option to our Best Buy A3 printers.
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Some of the models we've selected aren't recent launches, but they're still some of the highest performing printers out there. You can check our printer reviews page for new reviews monthly. Pricing, recommendations and test scores correct as of September 2021.

Not found the laser printer for you? Browse all of our printer reviews.

And here’s three A3 printers to avoid

Choosing the wrong A3 printer can be a costly mistake. They can set you back more than £200 to buy, and poor quality models will thirstily churn through your ink like its water.

Worst of all, at extra-large sizes, there's no hiding from poor print quality. Pick a poor A3 printer and you'll no longer want to show off your favourite photos at poster size.

A bad A3 printer can be slow at turning out text, photos and graphics pages, and you'll usually find the quality wasn't worth waiting for when the prints finally arrive.

Three A3 printers to avoid

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60%
£229.99
This all-in-one inkjet model is aimed at printing photos, so it’s no great surprise that print quality is fantastic. It absolutely chugs through ink though – making it hard to recommend it over other A3 printers.
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£319.99
There aren’t that many consumer A3 printers available, but with that limitation in mind, there is no reason to settle for this mediocre machine. Although it prints good-looking black-text documents, everything else about it underwhelms.
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£299.99
You pay big money for this printer, so you'd expect it to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to quality. However, it just isn’t. Print quality is mixed, running costs aren’t exactly cheap. Overall, there are better options available elsewhere.
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Pricing, recommendations and test scores correct as of September 2021.

A3 printer scanner

While you can still buy dedicated scanners, we don't test them anymore because all-in-one (or 'multi-function') printers - that can also scan and copy - are so widely available.

However, one thing to bear in mind is that while they can print up to A3, many consumer A3 printers can only scan and copy up to A4 in size.

Generally speaking, if you want to scan up to A3 size, you'll need to up your budget for a small office model. But, do bear in mind that spending more money doesn't automatically guarantee getting a higher quality printer or scanner.