1st I wanted to suggest don't believe the reviews at sellers' sites 100%, plus take magazine reviews with a grain of salt. Two cases in point, both re: Canon... I found a couple of years ago that Canon's inkjet printers alter the image to make it warmer, with more orange & an absence of true red, e.g. you can't print an image of a tomato & have it come out tomato red. A couple of magazine reviewers have [finally] caught on, though they say Canon's do OK on photo paper, where they really lay down the ink [photo paper has what you might think of as a microscopic carpet texture, with filaments to help control the spread or flow of a serious amount of wet ink -- all that ink flowing, sort of pooling together, is how they get away from having dots you can sometimes see].
I just came across the second case, where the reviews on sellers' sites were almost totally different than what appeared on the Canon site itself. 2 years ago I had a troublesome Epson printer die -- it really wasn't unexpected since the $200 printer was selling for $30 when I bought it. When it died I bought another $200 Epson marked down to $100 after buying & returning a comparable Canon. At the end of April I found out why Epson was trying to get rid of that model, when it started acting screwy. So this time around I was seriously considering living with the color accuracy problem with a Canon, and checked out two models they had on sale or promo most everywhere.
Most all of the reviews on seller sites were great, but those on Canon's site told a totally different story -- problems were really, really common. Maybe the new owners, if they had a problem right away, exchanged the printer & forgot about it -- I'd guess most people don't go back to the seller to report problems after a month or two. Had I bought one of those 2 Canon models based on glowing user reviews, odds are I would have been hassling with a warranty claim & return within the 1st 6 months, & printers aren't a small item easy [or cheap] to box up & ship.
FWIW I decided to go back to basics & bought a Brother inkjet all-in-one. Everything I've read suggests the Brother printer models are pretty much comparable, the differences being more along the lines of features like auto doc feeders. I bought a MPC-J4310DW. With Brother the magazine reviews saying the output was more-or-less average turned out to be accurate. When they talked about print speed OTOH, they were overly optimistic. The software, compared to Canon & Epson, is a bit primitive, without several of the options those two brands include. Their web site stinks, as does their documentation [if you're one of those who reads the manuals]. I had to download win7 & win8/8.1 software to learn it was the same, & I couldn't tell until install it was the same version on the CD. Manuals? There are 11 of them! And they're not written the same way most manuals are -- they're not bad really, but rather more unusual, & with 11 of them, I found myself jumping all over the place trying to get it set up.
The Brother printer's networking deserves mention. It has WPS, so you just press a button on your wireless router, the printer & router talk to each other, & you're done -- unlike all our other devices, it did not work. Buried in the docs it recommends you connect via USB, but run the software install for a network connection -- you can't run setup twice if you don't do that the 1st time. Of course I only found that recommendation trying to figure something else out. I wound up entering the WiFi key manually using a really arcane setup with the printer's touch screen -- a Big PITA. The Brother also supports web services, so in theory all it takes is one right-click of the mouse to install the drivers on other PC/laptops on your network. That almost worked, but I wound up having to run the regular software install, entering the printer's ip because *nothing* can find it otherwise, and then, after installing the software on 1 PC, the original attempt I made to install drivers using web services semi-worked, so now there were two copies of the same printer & scanner installed, though the 1st copy of both didn't work. If that isn't enough, the Brother has a print server built in, & can do quite a bit more than the simple network printer connection I'm used to -- that print server also requires setting up for security, though the docs for the most part skip over that fact.
Despite the agony setting the printer's networking up, it works pretty well once you get things working... It prints & scans pretty effortlessly over the network from a PC, or a cell, or a tablet. Google Cloud Print works too, though setting that up was as glitchy as everything else having to do with the printer's networking -- it didn't work, it didn't work, & then suddenly it did. I have no idea why, but like everything else, once it started working it's stayed working [knock wood].
As far as ink goes, it's too early to say -- like the Epson that died on me, Brother uses stationary tanks or cartridges, with the ink carried to the print heads by flexible tubes. Those tubes have to be filled the 1st time you insert the cartridges, so that 1st set doesn't last as long. That said, I am not one to use OEM cartridges, so the ink use & cost doesn't matter as much to me. I just bought 2 sets for $18 from an on-line retailer I trust, Meritline -- assuming I use both sets, I'll have saved $109.18, or $9.19 more than I paid for the printer. *If* the printer manufacturers are correct when they say non-OEM ink will shorten the life of the printer, I'll certainly use those 2 sets before the 2 year warranty is up, so cost-wise it'll be a wash -- I'll have saved more than the printer was worth. :)