8 Best Home Printers for Art & Fine-Art Prints (2026)

The Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-1100 is the printer that turns a spare room into a print studio. It's the successor to the PRO-1000 that defined the desktop-giclée category, and it's what photographers and painters reach for when the print has to be good enough to sell or hang.

The 12-ink LUCIA PRO pigment set is the whole story. Pigment inks sit on top of the paper rather than soaking in like dye, which gives you a wider color gamut, deeper neutral blacks, and — critically for anyone selling work — archival permanence rated past a century. That's the difference between a "photo print" and a giclée a collector will pay for.

The Chroma Optimizer is the under-appreciated feature: a clear coat that evens out gloss across the print so blacks don't "bronze" and matte and glossy areas read consistently. Cheaper printers skip it, and you can see the difference the moment light hits the print at an angle.

The Epson SureColor P900 is the printer to buy if the Canon's footprint scares you. Epson engineered the P900 to be the most compact 17-inch pigment printer on the market, and it shows — it fits on a normal desk in a way the Canon really doesn't.

The 10-ink UltraChrome PRO10 set is genuinely pro. Epson's pigment color science leans slightly cooler and is beloved for black-and-white work — if you print monochrome fine art, the P900 is arguably the better tool. For saturated color, the Canon's two extra inks give it a slight edge, but you'd need them side by side to call it.

Like every pigment printer here, the P900 wants to be used. If you print weekly, it'll reward you with prints indistinguishable from a pro lab. If you print twice a year, look at the EcoTank or a dye printer below.

The Epson SureColor P700 is the most printer most artists actually need. It's the P900's 13-inch sibling — same pigment inks, same archival rating, same touchscreen — at a price that's far easier to justify.

For the vast majority of people selling prints online or framing their own work, A3+ (13 × 19 inches) is plenty. At that size the P700 delivers prints indistinguishable from the 17-inch flagships. You're only paying more for the P900 if you genuinely need A2.

The Canon PIXMA PRO-200S is the printer for color that pops. Where pigment printers prioritize longevity and matte fine-art papers, the PRO-200S is built around dye inks that deliver the most saturated, glossy, eye-grabbing color in this guide.

For color photography, vivid digital art, and illustration destined for glossy or luster paper, dye is often the more beautiful choice — the color sits deeper and reads richer than pigment on the same image. It's also fast and forgiving.

The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 is the printer that makes high-volume art printing affordable. Cartridge printers punish you on ink — the EcoTank's refillable supertank flips that, dropping your cost-per-print to a small fraction of what cartridges cost.

For anyone selling prints at volume or running a print-on-demand operation, the math is decisive: the ET-8550 costs more upfront and then saves you money on every single print for years. It prints A3+ wide, has a 6-color set with red and gray for a wider photo gamut, and includes a scanner for digitizing original art.

The Epson Expression Photo HD XP-15000 is the budget gateway to wide-format art printing. It does the one thing cheap printers can't — print 13 inches wide — for a price that won't scare off a hobbyist testing the waters.

The 6-color Claria Photo HD dye set adds red and gray channels for a wider gamut than a standard 4-ink printer, so photos and digital art look genuinely good. It's not pigment and it's not a supertank, but at ~$350 for A3+ output, it's the most affordable way to find out whether wide-format printing fits your work.

The Canon PIXMA iP8720 is for artists who only need to print — nothing else. By skipping the scanner and all-in-one features, Canon keeps it cheap and compact while still doing the thing that matters: vivid 13-inch wide color prints.

The 6-ink ChromaLife100+ dye set gives you the punchy, saturated Canon color that's great for color photography and digital illustration. It's an older design and it's dye rather than pigment, but as a sub-$320 wide-format color printer, it's a lot of output for the money.

The Epson Expression Photo XP-8800 is the best first printer for art at home. It's cheap, it's simple, and it makes genuinely lovely letter-size photo and art prints with a 6-color dye set — plus it scans and copies, so it earns its place as a household all-in-one.

If you're not yet sure how much you'll print, or you mostly work at 8.5 × 11, there's no reason to spend more. The XP-8800 covers beginners completely and doubles as a everyday scanner and copier.