I would suggest going to your printer manufacturer’s web site. Find your printer and see if it’s Mac compatible. If it is, see if the necessary drivers, manuals, and other software is available for the MacOS version you have. You might need it; see below.

I agree with Nathan about Canon inkjet printers. I’ve has 2 all in one Canons and both have been reliable work horses with excellent print quality (both text and graphics). However…

… I have not found printer installation to be any where near as easy as Apple Support pages say it is. It’s not particularly difficult, but I have always had to download software and install it myself.

I’m a relative newbie to Macs but I’ve installed a Canon all in one and an Epson all in one on an iMAC running High Sierra. In each case, the computer didn’t have a clue that a printer was connected, so I had no option to add the printer from a list in Printer Preferences or to have the computer reach out through Software Update to get a driver, nor were any drivers already installed. So, I had to go to the Canon and Epson websites to get the software. It’s not hard – similar to what you would need to do in Windows, but not as trivial as Apple made it sound.

Also, if you need to go to the Canon website, I found that it was not kept up to date, at least as far as MacOS is concerned. The latest version listed as having available software was Yosemite (from 2014), while my OS is High Sierra (from 2017). Turns out that the version listed for Yosemite worked just fine.

Just trying to give you a heads up as to what might happen. My experience may not be typical, and in fact, Nathan’s seems to have been just as Apple described.

I have an all-in-one simple little Canon I bought for my mom a few years ago. It has never skipped a beat and the print quality is decent, that’s with it being connected to either the Win7 PC or Mac. Also have a Canon wireless printer but haven’t set it up yet. Running on an older MacOS and it easily recognized the Canon I’m currently using, so setting it up was hassle free. Hopefully once the wireless printer is up and running, the Mac will take it with no problems.

I have an inkjet HP Officejet 4650 all-in-one that I use with both the Mac and the Windows 7 PC and works equally well with both. It does, for what I need, a pretty decent job and, three years on, the paper has not jammed even once. I bought it originally for the PC, so I was quite happy to see it also working with the Mac, that I bought some months later. But I do not use it much, mostly to print documents, (the main job being when I do my taxes) or something that I need to have scanned into PDF, JPEG, etc., or else photocopied. I am not trying for photo quality, although it makes good enough print when plain matte paper is all is needed. So this little printer has been the right one for my modest printing needs. By now there must be newer HP models out there. It tends to run through cartridges rather faster than other printers I’ve had and have already passed on to a better life.

I have Samsung color Laser all-in-one CLX-3185FN that worked for years, flawlessly, with Windows 7.
Now on Windows 10 it took days to find the proper drivers and I still miss Samsung’s control software for Windows 10.
Samsung’s printer business has been sold to HP in 2017.

So even moving from OS version within Windows could cause printer compatibility.

Natahan” “There is also a generic printer driver on the Mac that I’ve found works as an “if all else fails” if you flat can’t get any drivers to work with a Mac. When adding the printer, simply select the generic driver option.”

If I recall correctly, that generic driver is what I must have used, as I am pretty sure that I did not install the HP using the installation disk.