The Staples printer costs literally more than 10X as much as your printer. Looked up your printer. The Staples printer costs more like 100X as much as your printer. (Maybe more). Cost/quality is not linear. 100X more costly for 10X better looking seems about right! Now, that cost isn't just due to quality: it's designed to crank out quality copies, copies, and copies, all day at a high rate of production. There are some pros here who can probably tell you exactly what printer Staples, Office Depot, etc. use. But you probably can't afford it nor have room for it. Go 4X what you paid for that printer. You can get color laser quality good enough for e.g. professional presentations, real-estate flyers, etc. etc. general business use with a clean look. What is your use case? Answer from ankole_watusi on reddit.com
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r/printers on Reddit: What type of printer does Staples use for color prints?
November 6, 2022 -
I own a Brother HL-L3210CW color laser printer. The prints it produces are just ok.
Recently, I sent documents to my local Staples which I also printed on the Brother and the difference is night and day. The Staples prints are literally 10X better than what my color laser printer produces.
The issue is, I need to print documents for customers and mail them out on a regular basis and driving to my local Staples is getting old...
Does anyone know what kind of printer Staples uses?
I was hoping maybe Inkjet would win out and bought a HP ENVY Inspire 7255e, but I tested it just now and it's actually like 10-20% worse than the Brother Color Laser.
The other thing of note: I am using non-OEM cartridges in the Brother printer, so maybe if I sprung for the $260 OEM cartridges I'd get a better print quality but I really don't know.
One other thing I could try is maybe the paper but I doubt that is really the issue here.
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The Staples printer costs literally more than 10X as much as your printer. Looked up your printer. The Staples printer costs more like 100X as much as your printer. (Maybe more). Cost/quality is not linear. 100X more costly for 10X better looking seems about right! Now, that cost isn't just due to quality: it's designed to crank out quality copies, copies, and copies, all day at a high rate of production. There are some pros here who can probably tell you exactly what printer Staples, Office Depot, etc. use. But you probably can't afford it nor have room for it. Go 4X what you paid for that printer. You can get color laser quality good enough for e.g. professional presentations, real-estate flyers, etc. etc. general business use with a clean look. What is your use case?
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>"What type of printer does Staples use for color prints?" Depends on the store I believe, and the type of job. Their equipment selection varies. But a ton of them use Xerox Digital Press machines, often the system itself costing well into 5 digits. And they may or may not be using print management systems such as Fiery that can interact directly with the color engine of the digital press to ensure it's doing a better job than adequate, but these systems often have licensing fees, hardware costs, and setup+install costs, not to mention the time time of techs to set up all this stuff and calibrate it, and etc. Unless you're going to get a dedicated high-accuracy color printer, get into digital color theory, and managing your own color profiles per type of paper used and more, you're best off letting the big groups with the staff and knowledge already to do this, do it for you. Otherwise, ya just gotta accept "well enough"
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July 14, 2025 -
Last week Staples was giving the equivalent of 50% of your printer purchase price in points to be used on a future purchase. So on a $414 Canon Color laser printer I got $212 worth of points. Their prices are identical to everyone else's. This week it is 30%. Not as good but not bad.
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You must be a rewards member and activate the app deal and also purchase online or through the app to get the 30% back on select printers and 50% back on tank printers. They only offer two HP printers in store that qualify for 50% back. Still a good deal if you need to buy anything.
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Staples likes to give big rewards for ink and toner. I refuse to go anywhere else for printer supplies.
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