For a few colour pages and an occasional scan, the HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 2875 at AED 319 has the lowest upfront price of the three printers here. For weekly colour worksheets, craft templates and scanned documents, the Epson EcoTank L3250 at AED 625 gives you refillable tanks and a flatbed scanner. For stacks of black-and-white documents, the Brother HL-L2461DW at AED 549 automatically prints on both sides of A4 and includes a starter toner rated for about 1,200 pages. It prints only.
Count a normal month and your busiest month before deciding. A family that prints 30 pages and needs to copy an occasional document has a different brief from someone who prints 30 double-sided pages every Friday. Colour and scanning can rule out the Brother immediately. Automatic two-sided printing can send a busy household looking beyond both inkjets. Once those choices are clear, compare the cost of the next refill and the amount of ink or toner in the box.
Prices were checked on 6 November 2026 on public UAE listings. Delivery and availability can vary by address. The figures below are listed item prices. Carrefour HP offer · Microless Epson listing · Jumbo Brother listing
HP DeskJet 2875 for occasional colour and scanning
The white 60K47C is the useful budget option when a printer spends most of the month on standby but you still need a colour sheet, a copy of a form or a scan of a signed page. The flatbed handles a document one sheet at a time. For two-sided jobs, you turn the stack yourself. HP rates it at up to 7.5 black or 5.5 colour pages per minute under its stated test conditions. The input tray holds up to 60 sheets, a reasonable fit for intermittent work and a reason to step up if large batches are routine. HP UAE model sheet
The AED 319 listing included VAT and showed Quick Cart Computer LLC as seller, with Carrefour handling delivery. The page displayed a one-year manufacturer warranty and HP's UAE sheet specifies a one-year limited warranty. Ask the seller for the claim route and check who appears on the invoice, particularly if the storefront switches offers. The displayed delivery was free for the location shown during the check. Carrefour HP offer
HP lists a black and a tri-colour 653 setup cartridge in the box. For replacements, match the UAE model to 3YM75AE black and 3YM74AE tri-colour. Jumbo showed the black cartridge in stock at AED 69. The colour cartridge was listed at AED 59 and marked out of stock. Treat the AED 128 combined sticker price as a budgeting reference and check where you can actually buy both. A tri-colour cartridge houses three colours together, so a run of cyan-heavy worksheets can leave you needing to buy the whole colour cartridge when cyan runs low. HP 653 black specifications · HP 653 tri-colour specifications · Jumbo black cartridge · Jumbo colour cartridge
The attraction is the AED 306 you keep up front compared with this Epson offer. That matters if most printing happens at school or work and the household printer mainly handles a short job on a deadline. If there is already a regular stack on the desk every Sunday evening, use a month's worth of actual jobs to price the cartridges before buying. The replacement black cartridge's rating is about 360 pages. The setup cartridge is a separate item and that 360-page figure belongs to the replacement.
Epson EcoTank L3250 for regular colour and inexpensive black refills
The black C11CJ67418 prints in colour and scans and copies from a flatbed. It has a rear feeder rated for up to 100 sheets and supports Wi-Fi Direct. Epson also specifies borderless output up to 10 × 15 cm. This combination works for ordinary A4 school sheets, the occasional small photo and quick copies around the house. If you need to scan ten pages into one PDF every week, budget for the time to lift the lid and position each page or shop for an automatic document feeder. If you print a lot of two-sided worksheets, allow for turning the paper manually. Epson UAE exact model
Microless showed this model in stock at AED 625, with a one-year manufacturer warranty option included and free delivery displayed for Dubai. The price is for the printer with the supplied ink. The same model was listed at AED 869 including VAT by Jarir, which labelled its warranty as 12 months from the agent. Jarir's public page showed the price without a purchase control during the check, so confirm availability with that retailer before making a trip. The difference of AED 244 is large enough to check each seller's invoice and service route before settling on the offer. Microless Epson listing · Jarir Epson listing · Epson UAE service partners
Refills are from the Epson 103 family. Each colour has its own bottle. That lets you replace just the colour you actually use up. The 103 black C13T00S14A was AED 44 and in stock at Microless, with a nominal 4,500-page replacement yield. Check the code on the bottle and on the documentation for your exact regional printer before ordering. The model guide covers multiple markets and lists different ink numbers for some of them. Epson L3250 user guide · Epson UAE 103 black bottle · Microless black refill
The included bottles and a single replacement bottle answer different questions. Microless quotes up to 8,100 black or 6,500 colour pages for the ink supplied in the printer box. The AED 44 calculation applies to one replacement black bottle. Setup and maintenance use ink, and dense artwork and photo prints change consumption considerably. If the plan is to print photos by the pack, price the paper separately and ask whether the required borderless size is supported before spending more for the tank.
Brother HL-L2461DW for black text, packets and two-sided A4
If you produce regular invoices, reference material or multi-page forms, this is the model built around that job. The Brother holds up to 250 sheets of 80 gsm plain paper, prints at up to 34 pages per minute on A4 and supports automatic two-sided printing on supported A4 paper types. It offers wireless printing, Wi-Fi Direct, AirPrint and Mopria. If scanning is part of the same workflow, a mono laser multifunction printer belongs on your shortlist instead. Brother Gulf HL-L2461DW specifications
Jumbo showed AED 549 and in-stock status for the BG-HLL2461DW listing. Brother Gulf states a one-year carry-in warranty for the model. Ask where the printer has to go and whether the invoice identifies the unit clearly. Carry-in service is a practical consideration if you need the printer for work every day. Jumbo Brother listing · Brother Gulf HL-L2461DW specifications
Brother lists an included toner rated for about 1,200 pages. The TN2500XL replacement is rated for about 3,000 and was in stock at AED 260 at Microless. The DR2500 drum is a separate part with its own replacement interval. Brother's up-to-15,000-page drum figure assumes one page per job. If a warning appears after you replace the toner, check which part the printer is asking for before buying a second cartridge. Brother TN2500XL specifications · Brother DR2500 specifications · Microless toner listing
Compare refills and cash outlay separately
At the checked prices, one black HP 653 cartridge costs about 19.2 fils per rated page (AED 69 divided by 360). The Epson 103 black bottle comes to 1.0 fil (AED 44 divided by 4,500) and Brother's TN2500XL comes to 8.7 fils (AED 260 divided by 3,000). These are prices divided by each manufacturer's nominal replacement yield. They leave out paper, cleaning, the laser drum and the printer itself. Coverage, media and print habits affect how far the supplies go. The HP tri-colour cartridge has its own test yield, so adding that to the black yield would give a misleading page count.
About 30 pages a month. That's 360 pages over a year. If you need colour and a flatbed, the HP's lower purchase price is likely the strongest argument. Keep the replacement price handy and check colour stock before your setup supply runs low. If colour is genuinely dispensable and jobs come in large bursts after weeks of sitting idle, the laser is worth considering for its dry toner and automatic duplex. At this volume, you'll pay more for those features upfront.
About 100 pages a month. At 1,200 printed sides a year, steady black-only demand roughly matches the Brother's nominal included toner rating. A year of school jobs split between black text and regular colour puts more value on the Epson's refill design and the ink already in the box. The HP can still fit a tight first-day budget. As a budgeting yardstick, producing 1,200 rated black pages entirely with replacement 653 cartridges would require buying four cartridges for AED 276, with some capacity left over. That scenario excludes the setup cartridge and should stay separate from a first-year cost estimate.
About 200 pages a month. At 2,400 pages a year, the Brother's starter plus one XL would cover the year on the stated ratings. Buying the printer and one XL costs AED 809 at these prices, with nominal toner capacity left for later. If those 2,400 pages include frequent colour output, the Epson's included ink makes it the stronger fit here. For 200 black pages a month with hand-fed two-sided jobs, factor in the extra handling each time you print a packet. A printer's running cost includes the tasks you have to stop and do yourself.
Check the setup that actually has to work
Look at the devices that will send jobs before choosing where the printer sits. The HP's wireless specification is 2.4 GHz. If the printer will live far from the router, decide whether the intended desk can use a USB connection or reach the right wireless network. On a shared family printer, check that the school laptop's account allows installation of any required app or driver. For the Brother, verify that the phone or tablet can find the printer using the mobile printing route you plan to use. For the Epson, allow room behind and above the rear feeder and enough clearance to open the scanner lid.
Save the model number and the first refill code together with the invoice. Then run through the tasks you expect to need while you can still raise an issue with the seller. A useful first set is one page from the household phone, a multi-page PDF from the laptop and a scan from each device that needs to receive scans. Add a two-sided print if that feature drove your purchase. Ask the seller about opened and ink-filled returns before initial setup, and keep the packaging while you confirm the hardware works.
Before buying an extra set of supplies
Buy a spare according to the job that would be hardest to interrupt. For the HP, a black cartridge is the useful backup if you mainly print text. If a school project needs several colour pages at short notice, confirm a source for the tri-colour cartridge while the setup set is still working. At Jumbo, the AED 59 colour price was attached to an unavailable item. The lower number is only useful if stock returns.
For the Epson, start with the included bottles and watch which tank drops fastest. A house that mainly prints black text can postpone buying a full set of colours. For the Brother, check toner status before buying the XL and keep the drum number in your notes for later. Jumbo's published terms exclude cartridges and toner from ordinary exchange or return. Double-check every character in a supply code before breaking a seal. Jumbo terms and returns
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