I have family who like hard copies of photos, so I basically eat ilford inkjet paper.
We bought a Canon Pixma G4200 tank printer a few years ago. Ink is vastly cheaper that way, but we’ve had problems with clogging since almost day one. And it has some quirks that make it an enormous pain.
I get they want to be used, but I should be able to go a couple weeks between regular printing sessions without failure (I’m ok with head cleaning cycles)
The black print head finally gave up today and won’t unclog. The printer was sufficiently annoyed that it threw a fatal error- guidance from Canon is to unplug it and send it to repair.
That’s after 3500 or more pages (photos and other things) based on the last status page, so maybe $0.35/photo including paper mainly because it died an early death.
So I wouldn’t recommend that one
Maybe the Epsons or HPs are more reliable.
-Eric