Colour printer recommendation

[bazzabear]

I posted a while ago about a colour laser printer, capable of doing reasonable photos.

I bought such a thing 13 years ago, and it's starting to get a bit flaky - I thought things must have moved on by now. In fact, I posted about it a while back:

Laser printer for photos?

I was converted to using a laser printer for all but top quality photo printing a good few years back. As a very occasional printer, I finally got too fed up with inkjet printers being clogged every time I returned to them. And on the rare occasion I needed something to be display quality, I...

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But - from the results of that thread, and from what research I've done myself - it seems that the industry has moved away from the idea of laser photo printing. I don't see any laser printers with better resolution specs than the one I have, and I don't see any particular recommendations which mention their image quality.

So, taking a different approach - is it possible that things have moved on in the world of inkjets? Have the issues which put me off them changed? Largely - their habit of clogging up, and using £££s worth of ink to unclog (usually unsuccessfully)?

Do these new 'ecotank' things have a design which avoids blockages? Does anyone have any decent recommendations?

Cheers in advance!

 

[bazzabear]

Cheers. My wife does actually print more regularly than we used to, so I am tempted by the Ecotank. Wondering whether the extra cost for one of the 6-colour ones is worth it. Seems like a great ability to have - the top notch photos - but I wonder how much we would genuinely use it?

 

[bazzabear]

Cheers everyone. I've taken a punt at the 8500, for the better photo facility. Makes the ink a bnit more expensive - but still way less than I'm used to paying. We will, as indicated above, try to ensure that we use it regularly enough to avoid any clogging issues.