Sadly I need to print a few, but not a lot, of decent colour photos, as well as colour documents including spreadsheets with a degree of colour coding (to take to meetings and wave angrily at people). I don't actually print very much in overall quantity, as I try to avoid printing anything if possible, and carry it by other means, but I do often need to print bits of drawings to take to the workshop and scrawl all over, or glue to a workpiece as a cutting guide. Whilst Kim's advice to find someone nearby was definitely well meant, she obviously doesn't know where I live (why should she?). I live with one neighbour not very close next door, who are IT-phobic, and the rest of the neighbours have trouble operating IT equipment with their cloven hooves, 'cos they is sheep. I do therefore need to be independent (nearest town is 11 miles away, and there's no print shop - for that I think its Shrewsbury, about 30 miles and another country away). I do also have an A1 format roll feed printer (HP111) but that is no use for the odd A4 document or for photos, as its crap at them.
I much prefer lasers, but as others have said, they are not good for photos. In a way what I need is a professional photo printer at a lower price point, and my Canon was a good try at that. I do print something at least every couple of days, so dried heads don't seem to be an issue (the big HP objected violently to being in store for 6 months or more during the Great House Move Debacle, and needed a new head and extremely through flushing/poking of its ink feed tubes).
I must confess to grumpiness at printers just suddenly dying. No getting a bit worn or cranky, just stopping in their prime, when I think they've years left in them yet. Its predecessor lasted 6 years, and I think this one has only managed 4 or maybe 5, but it too was in store for around 5 months. I hate to say it, but I think another bloody inkjet is the only reasonable answer. My document printing volume doesn't justify a separate mono laser, and space is tight (the bloody great HP behind me doesn't help there!). Budget may reach £100, as long as it promises to last a reasonable time. We shall see...