I've got a HP 8500. plugged into the wireless router so everyone can use it. Fantastic piece of kit. Scanning multi documents and it then emails it to anyone as a PDF or JPG. Brilliant.
Cartridges are about £30 for the 3 colours in a pack with some leaflet paper. On my second set and I've had the printer over a year and my daughter seems to print out every web page she finds. Black one about £14 on amazon and lasts over 2000 pages. It did go wrong but HP sent me a new one and then arranged for the courier to pick it up from work all within a couple of days. If you just download the driver only direct from the website you don't get all the Crap that they normally provide.
It is a bit big though.
It is a business ink jet and works as such.
Canon are good too but I have thrown out a large amount of their kit, but the picture quality was very good. Enjoy it.