<p>Based on personal experience, I would stay away from Epson, and favor HP and Canon. The ink systems used in the cheaper models of Epson make the printing extremely costly, especially when used irregularly. Ink will never be cheap, but Epson seems to be the greediest of all.</p>
<p>My epson is a 4x6 photo printer and it works fine. My regular printer is an HP and the only reason I bought it was because it had inexpensive ink. It prints 8x10 photos very well. my old photo printer, lexmark, died after maybe 9 months - 1 year… and it’s ink was very expensive.</p>
<p>We had an Epson inkjet a few years ago, and the rollers locked up on it about a week out of warrenty. We replaced it with an HP and have had no problems!</p>