I have an all in one canon inkjet printer that is failing. I had been refilling the cartridges. I had assumed that the total cost of printer and ink would be cheaper to buy and use with another inkjet especially if I were still refilling cartridges (which gets harder with all these new cartridges trying to prevent that). However, I have recently seen a couple of posts were people say if I don't need photo quality (and I don't unless the actual shades go completely off) that a color laser printer is less expensive.

Does this make sense? Why? Is it true with all in one printers (kind of need that)? Any opinions on which printers would be a good deal?