Inkjet printers are the most versatile budget home printers currently available and are ideal for printing photos for non-professional use and printing standard documents for school, projects, and other basic work. Still, there are different inkjet printers to choose from with different designs and features that may or may not be needed depending on your personal preferences. Choosing the right inkjet printer for your home is easy if you break down the preferences in parts.

Considering the Paper Sizes supported

Most regular inkjet printers support the standard A4 size along with its slight variations. Home users that plan on using the printer for general usage should focus on the printers that have the A4 specifications as other printers that support more paper sizes end up being larger. Only look for A3, A2, and A1 printers if you really plan on printing on these paper sizes often.

Considering the Print Speed

If you are the patient type and won't be printing a lot of pages every day, getting the lowest print speed can actually save you some money. Most of the people that want high speed inkjet printers are those that have their own home offices where they will use the printer for productive purposes. The general measurement of ppm usually applies to colour so if you see a printer with a seemingly slow ppm for colour, the black and white printing speeds will be a bit faster.

Considering the Extra Features

Because more homes are starting to have more than one computer, printer sharing is more of a demand because of the convenience that it brings. When connected to a wireless router, the printer can automatically be accessed wirelessly with the range depending on the router capabilities so the networking function is a good thing to have in your next inkjet printer if you have multiple desktop and laptops in your home.

Some of the other printers have borderless printing which means that an entire photo or image can cover any of the paper sizes that it supports. This eliminates the need for cutting the unwanted border edges for the photo to look whole. This feature adds to the overall cost of the printer and should be considered only if needed. Otherwise, find another printer if you don't plan on doing lots of photo printing.

Considering the Consumables

Buying an inkjet printer isn't just a single expense and there could be a possibility where you can get the cheapest printer and then end up spending more on ink cartridges. Try to get the prices of the different ink cartridges for the different brands and make an estimate on how often you'll get a new ink cartridge based on your average usage. You can even let the ink cartridge determine which printer manufacturer is best for you.

After considering these four general factors, you may end up with several brands to choose from. Simply do some background online researches on each of the models and make the final choice based on the comments of other home users and you should end up with a nice printer that you can use whenever you need to.