We got very tired of the cost of ink refills and last year decided to buy a laser jet printer.
We got the HP 1020 model and are still using the original cartridge it came with after about 15 months. We print maybe 5-10 pages per day around here between us and our sons. We decided if we wanted to print in color or photos we would outsource them and actually haven't run into any times when it was an issue.
If you do a lot of black and white printing you might consider a laser jet and only use the color printer as needed. Lots cheaper in the long run.