For what it's worth Canon printer consumables (ink cartridges) tended (at least up to recently) to be cheaper than for other printers. If you would be doing a lot of printing then at some stage a laser printer might work out better value in the long term. But it might be hard to justify one for sporadic home use. One good tip with inkjet printers is to set the drivers to draft mode except for final versions of docs that need to be better quality. I never use anything other than draft even for final versions. Saves on ink.