What to buy. Or nothing at all.
Every list here starts with an option that genuinely costs nothing — you can open today on a phone you already own. Below that, the cheapest thing that is still good, and the one we would buy ourselves. We make no money on any of it, so what each thing is bad at is written next to it.
Find yours.
Tell us how you actually work and you get both baskets side by side — the cheapest that works, and what we would buy — with a line saying what every single thing is for.
Three rules this list is built on.
- Every category has a free option
Not a discount — genuinely nothing to buy. If you can open without spending, the list says so instead of steering you into a basket.
- Nothing is here we would not run ourselves
And every item says what it is bad at. A shop with no catches in it is a shop nobody believes twice.
- We earn nothing from this page
No affiliate links, no markup, no kickback. Buy it wherever it is cheapest — we would rather you had the money.
Already own a printer?
Most kitchens do, and most of them work. Type what it says on the front and we will tell you how it connects — or that we do not recognise it, which is not the same as no.
Try: Epson TM-m30III · Star TSP143IV UEWB · Star mC-Print3 · a name we will not know
Every option, with a way to buy it.
Several per line, so one thing going out of stock is an inconvenience rather than a dead page. Buttons search the exact model rather than pointing at one seller's listing — a listing dies, a model does not. Prices are indicative and dated; the link is the truth.