Best A3 Printer 2026: 10 Ranked

This is the A3 all-in-one to buy for a small office that prints far more than it scans. It takes A3 through the printer while scanning, copying and faxing stay at A4, which keeps the body at 53 cm wide, and 192 owners rate it 4.2. If most of your A3 work is printing rather than scanning, this is the best A3 printer to buy here.

The number that puts it first is 28 ppm mono, and £185.90 divided by 28 comes to £6.64 per page per minute. That is the lowest of the five all-in-ones on this page, and it means a 100-page A3 document run finishes in about 3.6 minutes. The 6.8 cm colour touchscreen and the Brother Mobile Connect app handle setup and phone printing, and 550 pages of ink arrive in the box.

The limit is the scanner. A3 originals have to go through an A4 platen, so a full A3 page takes two passes or a trip to a copy shop. The Epson WorkForce WF-7840 at £231.90 scans, copies and faxes at A3+ for £46 more, and it prints at 32 ppm.

Buy this if you never need to scan or copy and your A3 work is posters, spreadsheets and borderless photos. It is the most reviewed A3 machine on this page, with 1,521 owners rating it 4.2, and at 8.1 kg it is the lightest printer here apart from the photo models. At £178.98 it costs £1.99 more than the Canon PIXMA TS9550a.

The mono figure is 14.5 ppm, which comes to £12.34 per page per minute, the third-highest of the ten. Where it earns its keep is photographic: five individual inks let you replace only the colour that runs out, an XXL pigment black cartridge reaches 1,000 monochrome pages, and a 10 x 15 cm borderless photo takes about 36 seconds. Colour runs at 10.4 ppm.

The trade-off is that nothing here scans or copies, so a signed A3 form has to be photographed or taken elsewhere. The Canon PIXMA TS9550a at £176.99 adds A3 scanning and copying with a 10.8 cm touchscreen for £1.99 less, but it prints at 15 ppm and costs £11.80 per page per minute.

This is the pick for an office that wants A3 printing with the best owner feedback in the group: 4.4 from 207 owners, the strongest rating on a large sample here. It prints A3 and keeps scanning, copying and faxing at A4, and the 8.8 cm colour touchscreen makes short work of the menus that a 6.8 cm panel turns into scrolling.

Speed is 28 ppm mono, identical to the Brother MFC-J5340DW, which makes the value figure £8.18 per page per minute against the £6.64 of its cheaper sibling. Double-sided scanning is built in, so a stack of A4 paperwork can be digitised in one pass, and 550 pages of ink come in the box. The body is 53 cm wide and 37.5 cm tall.

The £43 extra over the MFC-J5340DW buys the larger screen, the higher rating and double-sided scanning, not speed. It is also heavy at 20.5 kg, so once it is on a desk it tends to stay there, and A3 originals still need two passes through an A4 scanner.

This is the machine to buy when A3 has to go both ways: print, scan, copy and fax all work at A3+, so a large plan or a drawing can be digitised and sent without leaving the desk. It is the fastest all-in-one here at 32 ppm mono with 12 ppm colour, and 209 owners rate it 4.1.

At £231.90 the value figure is £7.25 per page per minute, second only to the print-only Epson WF-7310DTW. Twin paper trays plus a rear feed let you keep A3 stock and plain A4 loaded at the same time, and the automatic document feeder handles multipage scans without supervision. Ethernet and Wi-Fi Direct suit an office with a wired network.

The cost of all that is weight: 20.6 kg, the heaviest machine on this page, and a body that needs a permanent spot rather than a shelf you rearrange. If you print only, the Epson WF-7310DTW does the same 32 ppm for £154.19, which is £77.71 less, and skips the scanner entirely.

This is the way to put A3+ on paper for the least money: £154.19, the lowest price on this page, with 108 owners rating it 4.0. It prints only, so it suits a desk where documents arrive as files, and it takes A3 through two paper trays plus a rear feed without needing a scanner bolted on top.

At 32 ppm mono it matches the fastest all-in-one here, and £154.19 divided by 32 gives £4.82 per page per minute, the best figure of all ten machines. Automatic double-sided printing works up to A3, so a 100-page report uses 50 sheets, and the 6.1 cm LCD handles the settings you change most often.

Two things to know before buying. Nothing here scans or copies, so the Epson WorkForce WF-7840 at £231.90 is the upgrade at £77.71 more if A3 originals need digitising. And it weighs 16.5 kg, about double the Canon PIXMA IX6850 at 8.1 kg, so it is a two-person lift on to a shelf.

This is the photo printer of the group for anyone who also needs A3+ documents. It weighs 8.5 kg, a third of the 20.6 kg Epson WorkForce WF-7840, and 172 owners rate it 4.1. At £263.99 it is the most expensive single-function machine here.

The ink set is the reason to choose it: Claria Photo HD inks with red and grey give portraits and black-and-white prints a range that a standard four-colour machine cannot reach. It prints at 29 ppm mono, which comes to £9.10 per page per minute, £2.70 less than the Canon PIXMA TS9550a, and front and rear paper trays keep photo paper separate from plain stock. CD and DVD printing is built in.

The catch is that it prints and nothing else, and double-sided printing stops at A4, so long A3 documents come out one side at a time. The Epson WorkForce WF-7310DTW at £154.19 is £109.80 cheaper and prints at 32 ppm, but it has none of the photo inks.

This is the A3 all-in-one for a home office that needs scanning as much as printing. It handles A3 print, scan and copy in a body 46.8 cm wide, narrower than the 53 cm of the Brother MFC-J5340DW, and 82 owners rate it 3.9. At £176.99 it is the cheapest way here to get A3 scanning alongside A3 printing.

The 10.8 cm touchscreen is the biggest on this page, which matters when you are switching between A3 stock and plain A4, and Ethernet plus the Canon PRINT app covers both a wired desk and phone printing. Pigment black keeps text sharp on plain paper, while five individual inks cover colour and photos.

Speed is the price you pay: 15 ppm mono comes to £11.80 per page per minute, nearly double the £6.64 of the Brother MFC-J5340DW. A 200-page A3 run takes about 13 minutes, which is fine for short jobs and painful for a weekly print run. The Brother prints at 28 ppm for £8.91 more.

Buy this for a small office that prints wide-format documents and wants the ink cost handled by subscription. It prints, scans and copies, with 207 owners rating it 3.8, and 3 months of Instant Ink are included when HP+ is activated, which HP prices as up to 70 percent off ink.

At 22 ppm mono the value figure is £8.64 per page per minute, mid-table in this group but ahead of the Canon PIXMA TS9550a at £11.80. A 250-sheet input tray means fewer refills on long runs, and the 35-sheet automatic document feeder takes multipage scans. Colour prints at 18 ppm, the quickest colour figure below £220 here, and P3 support widens the gamut beyond sRGB for posters.

Two limits stand out. Scanning is sheetfed only, so bound reports and fragile originals cannot be copied, and it costs £4.09 more than the Brother MFC-J5340DW while printing 6 ppm slower. The 3.8 rating from 207 owners is the lowest in the top ten, so read the reviews before committing.

This is for the buyer who prints photos at A3 and documents occasionally. It combines a 6-ink Claria Photo HD system with a 10.9 cm touchscreen and two front-loading paper trays, one for A4 and one for photo paper, so you are not swapping stock between jobs. Nine owners rate it 4.6, the highest rating on this page.

The rating comes with a catch: nine owners is the smallest sample here, so it carries less weight than the 4.2 from 192 owners on the Brother MFC-J5340DW. Speed is 8.5 ppm mono, which works out at £25.88 per page per minute, the highest of the ten machines and nearly four times the Brother's £6.64. Even colour runs at 8 ppm.

That makes it a photo machine first. If speed matters, the Epson Expression Photo XP-15000 prints at 29 ppm and costs £44 more at £263.99, though it prints only. In daily use this one scans and copies A3 originals, which the XP-15000 cannot.