Buy the Brother Work Smart 1360.
It costs more up front, but it is the only one of the three built to not bleed you dry on ink and paperwork.
What was compared
- Canon PIXMA TS6520 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer Duplex Printing | Print, Scan, Copy, 1.42... — $79.00
- Brother Work Smart 1360 Wireless Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer with Automatic Duplex Pri... — $119.99
- HP DeskJet 4255e Wireless All-in-One Color Inkjet Printer, Scanner, Copier, Best-for-Home,... — $109.99
Five reasons
1. Ink swaps that don't waste two good colors
Brother's LC501 cartridges are single-color, so a dead yellow costs you one cartridge. Canon's TS6520 and HP's DeskJet 4255e use combined tri-color cartridges, so one exhausted color forces you to bin still-full cyan and magenta too, again and again.
2. Stack a multi-page document, walk away
Brother includes an automatic document feeder, so scanning or copying a 10-page report is one load and done. Neither Canon's TS6520 nor HP's DeskJet 4255e have this, so extra pages go on the glass by hand, one at a time.
3. No subscription trap holding your printer hostage
HP's DeskJet 4255e ships with a forced Instant Ink trial, and buyers report losing the ability to print once it expires despite owning the hardware outright, plus recurring app and support complaints. Brother's ink works from day one, no strings attached.
4. Built for real double-sided paperwork
Automatic duplex is standard on the Brother, flipping pages itself for two-sided reports and school packets without you touching the tray. HP's DeskJet 4255e skips automatic duplex, so two-sided jobs there mean flipping every sheet by hand.
5. Yes, the Canon is cheaper. Here's why that fades.
The Canon PIXMA TS6520 undercuts the Brother by $40 upfront, and that's real money. But its hybrid tri-color cartridges bleed cash every time one color runs dry, and normal home printing erases that $40 gap within a year or two, then keeps costing you.
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