Comment by rustyhancock

One interesting thing about printers, for me I really don't need much at all.

Occasionally I need to print things mostly tickets, boarding passes, simple shipping documents or even my own headed paper.

None of these need high quality printing, even the headed paper is not complex.

My sister in law has an art company and she's very happy with her large format commercial inkjet, which seems to work through buckets of inks and use 6 or so inks at once.

Our printers at work churn through huge amounts of printing without issue. I'm sure they are eye wateringly expensive, and maintaince is necessary and included in the ink subscription.

The pain of printing is confined to the day to day home user.

I don't use it much, I don't use much ink, I don't need much.

This would be fine. For a few years I got by just with one of those simple thermal printers that print only vaguely A4 sheets. But of course alcohol hand wash or friction ruin those prints and they fade in short order (weeks).