Canon's Pixma G3270 MegaTank is our top budget cartridge-free printer — and it's down to $144 at Amazon
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Cheap tank-based printers at $144 shift the cost curve back toward local printing for home offices and small teams. If your workflows assume everything is digital-only, revisit where low-friction, low-cost print still reduces friction — especially for signatures, shipping, and regulated documentation.
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