Canon & a few other major brands have consumer grade MFP that use ink tanks instead of cartridges and you avoid this kind of hassle & get a much lower price on

Canon & a few other major brands have consumer grade MFP that use ink tanks instead of cartridges and you avoid this kind of hassle & get a much lower price on ink refills that you just dump into the corresponding color tank on the printer. This is what I use at home, a canon G-series printer. The "down side" of this is that the printers cost a fair bit more upfront. It's also not photo-grade quality. But with decent quality paper & high quality print settings it does just fine, and monochrome is no problem at all. I also don't consider the higher up front price to be an actual down side. I know I'm simply not getting the machine at a subsidy price, and in exchange I have to pay the true cost of the machine but have a much better user experience.