I've had 2 Epson Printers a Stylus 800 series (think it was 810) and Stylus CX5200 all in one.
Each of the sodding things packed up and are no use to me, so has a familiy memebers epson printer (not sure what it is) but from my experience epson are rubbish expensive on inks and dont give a damn about the consumer.
I'll never buy an epson again and will always deter people from buying them.
I to am thinking of buying HP as i noticed the printer heads are on the cartridges and this is just a brilliant way to do thing, i've not really looking into it to much but from a glance they are slightly higher than i would like to pay.
Another route i've been thinking of is Laser as i think i could pretty much deal with black and white images if wanted to print them and the they seem to be very coseffective and they can't clog up ?
I saw a samsung laser printer on offer somewhere for £40 i think it was and was very tempted to buy it but did'nt in the end.