   Inkjet Head Technology
  I find that buying an inkjet printer produces an interesting dilemma. For the price of buying new cartridges, you can buy another printer filled with ink. The money seems to be selling the cartridges with the ink jet head technology which pushes up the price.I had this problem with an Epson then a Lexmark. It is really expensive to replace the cartridges. However, I recently bought a Cannon printer which uses a different system. The heads are separate from the ink cartridges. That makes buying more ink less than half the price of other types that come with the heads built in. Much more affordable. The head is also replaceable at $ 68 Cnd. But should last a long time if a test pattern is printed at least once a week and the ink doesn''t dry on the heads clogging them up. I let this happen with the last two printers, and it is a costly mistake. Even a refill kit couldn''t save a cartridge. Based on this, I would reccomend Cannon printers because of their new approach.I also still have an old dot matrix printer which continues to work splendidly. Don''t need to waste expensive ink just dumping stuff to paper. Everyone should have a dot matrix along with their inkjet. In my opinion anyway. 
  yeah heh... I''ve seen lexmark printers for actually LESS than the cost of ink :-\ ;  Unless you are printing photographs, I''d recommend getting a laser printer.  They cost more upfront and cost more to replace the toner, but you rarely need to replace the toner and in the endcost MUCH less. They also print much faster.Some ink-jets these days come with the cartridge half filled, so you have to by a replacement pretty soon. 