Today's Biggest Laser Printer Price DropsJanuary 2021

In total we found 230 laser printers ranging from $25 to $9,012. The average price of a new laser printer is $857 and the 80% of laser printers are priced between $139 and $2,175. The most expensive laser printer that we found is the HP M880Z at $9,012, and the cheapest is the Canon LBP251DW at only $25.

We have evaluated 408 expert reviews and 3,066 user reviews for laser printers and used these reviews to calculate the average rating for each brand of laser printer. The top three laser printer brands are HP, Lexmark and Ricoh. HP has an average rating of 86%, Lexmark has an average rating of 75% and Ricoh has an average rating of 73%.

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The biggest laser printer retailer by number of products currently for sale is eBay. We found 156 current laser printer offers from eBay. The second biggest retailer is Adorama with 137 offers. That means eBay is slightly bigger than Adorama when it comes to laser printers. Overstock is the third biggest retailer with 89 current offers.

The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying laser printers. For each retailer it shows the total number of laser printers where they currently have a market leading price. The chart below helps you decide which retailer is normally cheapest for buying laser printers. For each retailer we took all of their prices and looked at what proportion of those prices where the cheapest on the market. The cheapest retailer that we found was eBay. 115 of their laser printer prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

Assessing how cheap each retailer is for laser printers by counting the number of cheapest prices for that retailer, makes the retailers that offer the greatest number of laser printer prices more likely to offer the greatest number of cheapest prices. The chart below considers the proportion of each retailer's laser printer prices that are the cheapest compared to other retailers. The cheapest retailer that we found using this approach was eBay. 73.7% of their laser printer prices were the cheapest that could be found anywhere.

On average laser printers drop in price by 13% in the first 6 months after release.

If you are prepared to wait then you could save an average of $107 on a typical $857 new laser printer by waiting 6 months before buying.

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We looked at the release dates for new laser printers over the last 3 years, but couldn't see any evident pattern. The biggest month in 2020 for new laser printer releases was January, with four new laser printers released that month. In 2019 most new laser printers were released in January as well, with 42 new laser printers released that month. August was the biggest month in 2018 for new laser printers, with 19 new laser printers released that month.

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