Best A3 printers for 2022

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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  73%

  • best buy

  £712.59

  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%

  £309.85

  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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  64%

  £499.99

  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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Pricing, recommendations and test scores correct as of February 2022.

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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 £600 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.

Pricing, recommendations and test scores correct as of February 2022.

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.