Top Five Best A3 Printers For 2021

Hollie Hennessy

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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, with some models under £100. 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

73%

£529.97

Reviewed Sep 2020

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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72%

£319.93

Reviewed Jun 2018

Not only can this big-brand inkjet print, copy and scan up to A3 in size, it also has wi-fi, twin paper cassettes and an automatic document feeder. There aren't many better home office printers available.

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70%

£274.80

Reviewed Apr 2018

There aren't many Best Buy printers that can both print and scan up to A3 in size. It has great print quality, it's relatively cheap to buy for a big home office printer and its printing costs are affordable.

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68%

£169.24

Reviewed Feb 2018

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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64%

£340.00

Reviewed Oct 2017

If you're searching for a home office printer, this big-brand A3 model packs in a lot of functionality at a reasonable price. It can copy, scan and fax, and has an automatic document feeder and twin paper trays. See if this is the A3 printer for you by logging in or joining Which?.

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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. The table above was updated in November 2020.

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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 £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

55%

£279.00

Reviewed Aug 2017

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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51%

£429.99

Reviewed Jul 2015

If you pay more than £300 for a printer, you'd expect it to be firing on all cylinders. Yet this model not only underwhelms with its quality, but it could also cost you almost £140 a year to run. This is a printer to avoid.

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49%

£299.00

Reviewed Jun 2017

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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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.