INKvestment Tank Printers

Homes and offices using INKvestment® tank printers enjoy low-cost printing and less frequent ink cartridge replacements. These supertank printers from Brother® use high-yield cartridges and feature internal ink storage tanks. They offer higher page yields than regular inkjets and are ideal for users that print hundreds of pages every month. Find a good selection of these Brother supertank printers in the large inventory of office machines at Staples®.

Print More for Less When You Choose an Inkvestment Tank Printer
Brother makes Super and Ultra High-Yield cartridges for its Inkvestment printers. These ink cartridges help cut printing costs by producing more pages than regular cartridges. Printing with Inkvestment Ultra High-Yield cartridges costs 1 cent per page of black text and 5 cents per color page. To ensure users enjoy immediate savings as soon as they set up their printers, Brother includes some High-Yield ink cartridges in the box.

Another way an Inkvestment printer helps home and business users save is by replacing a scanner and a copier. All the products in this Brother lineup are multifunction machines. A few of them can also fax documents. Getting an all-in-one printer is one way small and home offices can spend less on essential business machines. An all-in-one Inkvestment printer also has a smaller footprint than separate printer, scanner, copier, and fax machines in an office.

Features to Look for in Brother Inkvestment Tank Printers
Just like for regular inkjets, the key features to consider are print speed, paper tray capacity, and duplexing. Entry-level Inkvestment units can deliver 10 color pages per minute (ppm) and 12 black-and-white ppm. These are suitable for small and home offices. Mid-size and large offices need models capable of up to 22 ppm and 20 ppm for black and color printing, respectively. Tray capacity determines the number of sheets a printer can hold at once. This product lineup includes machines with 150- and 250-sheet capacities. Select models equipped with two trays can hold up to 500 pages.

Shoppers should also consider automatic document feeder (ADF) capacity. This is important when printing, scanning, copying, and scanning multipage documents. Brother’s supertank printers come with 20- and 50-sheet ADF capacities. All Inkvestment models have duplex or double-sided printing capability. A few of them can also copy, scan, and fax double-sided documents.

What Paper Sizes Do Inkvestment Tank Printers Support?
All of them fit letter (8.5 x 11 inches) and legal (8.5 x 14 inches) size pages. Offices that print on larger sheets should opt for models that support up to 11 x 17-inch tabloid/ledger pages.

How Does an Inkvestment Tank Printer Work?
While it uses cartridges like a regular inkjet, these don’t connect directly to the printhead. Rather, the high-yield ink cartridges loaded into an Inkvestment printer empty into a large internal tank. The printhead siphons ink from the tank and transfers it onto paper.  

What Is the Difference Between Regular and XL Inkvestment Tank Printers?
The chief difference is the amount of ink included in the box. Regular models have one years’ worth of ink, while XL units ship with enough ink to last users two years. In the current lineup, two trays and duplex copying, scanning, and faxing are options only available in the regular Inkvestment lineup.