Multifunction printers combine the benefits of a printer, scanner and copier. The best home printers are now fast, quiet and easy to set up. Run-of-the-mill printers are still noisy, jam easily and go through ink like your kids at an all-you-can-eat dessert buffet.īut believe it or not, printers have gotten better. Many printers seem like they’re frozen in time, still just as clunky as the model you owned in 1998. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done.