[ksec]

Buy a Laser Printer.

Dont Buy Inkjet. They All suck. They are designed so the Ink Cartridge head will be blocked after opening for x months. And Ink Cartridge are filled with Ink but either dry up or you will never be able to make full use of it. In Colour Inkjet some manufactures even make it so have to have enough ink in ALL colours to print. Even if you try to print something without it, mixed or not.

Their business model is basically force you to buy more Ink Cartridge.

Basically Consumer Inkjet printing sucks.

Edit: I think Xerox or Fujitsu had a new LED based printing tech similar to Laser, they were very good for first two years, but generally speaking they dont last as long as old Laser.

[detaro]

If you just need a few pages b/w every now and then, a cheap laser is probably more hassle-free.

Higher-end inkjets have gotten better, and are often competitive price-per-page with similarly priced lasers. E.g. there's now various models with ink tanks you refill from a bottle instead of cartridges.

I'm not a fan for ideological reasons, but e.g. HP also sells some printers with a "20 pages per month for free" pay-per-page model where they'll send you ink. Also an option, especially if you want to the cheaply print the occasional large photo (which is also just "a page")

[avian]

The issue with cheap (<1000 EUR) color laser printers seem to be that you will throw them out once you use up the supplied cartridges.

Either 1) you won't be able get new cartridges because of model churn 2) new cartridges will cost more than a new printer or 3) even with new cartridges your printouts will be unusable because the transfer drum/fuser/paper feeder will be worn out at that point.

In my opinion, for that kind of money you're better off buying a high-end inkjet if you need color printing.