I have a Canon Pixma iX6550. It will do up to A3+ (oversized A3) borderless and the print quality is astonishing for a “cheap” printer. £149 all in. Five separate ink cartridges (Cyan, Mangenta, Yellow, black (photo) and black (text) which work out at about £9 each. You can replace individual cartridges as and when rather than a full set at a time.
Surely at prices as low as that a photo printer is the daftest purchase ever
Depends what you’re doing with it. For holiday snaps, yes. But if you’re turning out large-format, high quality photos and fine-art prints on archival quality paper it’s the cheapest way of doing it.