6 Best Wide Format Printers of 2026: Tested and Ranked

If your wide printing means a rolled site plan or a poster taped in a shop window, sheet sizes stop mattering and roll width becomes the whole decision. The DesignJet T210 takes 24-inch rolls, cuts them automatically, and measures just 11 inches deep, so it can stand against a wall in a room that was never meant to be a print shop.

We were struck by how much of the machine is aimed at repeat work rather than one-off prints. HP Click checks PDFs before they go, nests jobs so several posters share one run of paper, and keeps job settings on the front panel instead of buried in a driver. Line drawings and text are where it looks strongest — crisp edges on plans and maps, which is exactly the work a 24-inch machine gets bought for.

The limits are worth knowing before you commit. It prints only, with no scanner or copier, so anything coming back in needs a separate machine. Cut sheets such as 13 x 19 go through an optional sheet feeder rather than the box. And at 1.3 pages per minute this is a plotter, not an office printer: fine for a run of posters, wrong for a memo.

Thirty-one pages per minute in black and 30 in color, on a machine that also prints 11 x 17 — the MFC-J6960DW is as fast as anything in this guide, and it gets that speed on ledger paper rather than only on letter. That's why it's here. Plenty of small businesses print big invoices, drawings and forms all day; they don't need one gallery print a month.

Paper handling is where the money goes. Two trays hold 500 sheets between them, with another 100 in the multipurpose feed, so ledger stock can live in one tray and letter in the other and nobody has to swap paper to run a form. The 50-page single-pass duplex ADF scans both sides in one pass, the feature that separates this from the cheaper Brother below. On the 11 x 17 pages we put through it, text came out clean and quick.

It is a big machine: 51.4 pounds and 22.7 inches across, so give it a proper table and check the doorway if it has to go upstairs. What the bulk buys is office machinery — a 3.5-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi Direct for visitors, and a two-year limited warranty that runs longer than most here.

Where the Epson is the sensible all-rounder, the PRO-310 is for people who sell the print. Nine Lucia Pro II pigment inks plus a Chroma Optimizer lay down an even gloss across the sheet, and the matte black gives dark areas depth instead of a flat wash. It handles 13 x 19 sheets and custom lengths up to 13 x 129 inches, which is how a panorama comes out of a desktop printer.

We think the gap shows most in black-and-white and in long gradients, where pigment on a good matte paper is the combination that makes a big print feel like an object rather than an output. Canon's anti-clog routine and skew correction are the unglamorous parts that keep a machine like this usable when you print in bursts rather than daily, and that matters more here than any single figure on the sheet.

The cost side stings. Ink is expensive, and it's the friction point to plan for rather than a surprise. At around two pages per minute it's also slow, and it prints only, so the Epson remains the better one-machine answer for most people. For a photographer, an illustrator or a small studio selling prints, none of that outweighs the output.

The iP8720 is the least expensive route to 13 x 19 printing in this group, and it doesn't read as a compromise on paper: six inks including a gray, 9600 x 2400 resolution, borderless printing right up to 13 x 19, and a body 6.3 inches tall and 18.6 pounds, which means it can share a shelf with the books.

Printing with it is straightforward once it's connected. The top feed takes photo paper and cardstock, 13 x 19 borderless sheets come out flat, and the gray ink keeps monochrome prints from going warm. It will also print directly onto printable discs, a small feature we didn't expect to care about and did.

The network is the weak link. Getting it onto Wi-Fi is where this machine goes wrong, and if your router sits near the desk, a cable is the calmer way to live with it. That's a workaround rather than a deal-breaker, and it doesn't change our view of the value: large photo prints for less than any other 13 x 19 machine here, as long as you don't need to scan what you print.

Take the MFC-J6960DW, halve the paper capacity to 250 sheets, swap the single-pass duplex ADF for a 50-page single-sided one, and you have the J6560DW: the same 31 pages per minute in black and 30 in color, the same 11 x 17 output, the same two-year warranty, and about seven pounds less to lift onto the table.

For an office that prints ledger-size forms a few times a week rather than a few times an hour, that's a sensible trade rather than a downgrade. Setup and wireless are the two things that go right here, and the 2.7-inch touchscreen is enough to set paper type and check ink without opening a laptop. The single-sided feeder is the piece to think about: if you routinely scan double-sided 11 x 17 documents, stepping up to the bigger machine's single-pass feeder is worth it.

We keep it in the guide because it's the least expensive way into a fast Brother ledger machine, and it gives up capacity rather than output to get there. Ink comes from the same LC506 cartridge family, so running costs match its larger sibling. If 250 sheets covers a week of your printing, this is the smarter buy; if it doesn't, the J6960 earns its extra cost in fewer interruptions.