I realize these are just anecdotes but: I have a Canon color laser and while it's quality is to be desired, it functions just fine with 3rd party toner cartrid

I realize these are just anecdotes but: I have a Canon color laser and while it's quality is to be desired, it functions just fine with 3rd party toner cartridges. I also recently bought an Epson Inkjet mostly because it didn't use cartridges - ink comes in a bottle you fill the tanks with. You can get 3rd party ink bottles but the Epson branded ink bottles are very affordable. Just to contrast the $/mL for ink for the Epson tanks, the Epson costs 25 cents/mL ($16 for 65mL of black ink), while a random HP printer I found costs $9/mL ($18 for 2mL of black ink).