I hate inkjets for this very reason. If you aren't using it, it sits there cleaning itself and filling up the waste tank until it eventually clogs anyway and dies.
Laser printers with a Canon print engine (Canon and HP) are generally happy to sit there doing nothing for long periods of time and then wake up and print when you need them to. Sometimes you need to replace a roller because of a flat spot but it's a $10 part.
My current printer is an HP color LaserJet AIW that I bought for $9 in a thrift store about 8 years ago. It is about to need its first toner cartridge swap after a few thousand prints and I bought the 4 toners on eBay for about $30 each.
I put a lot of prints on it early on because I got carried away with printing LaserJet detail in color. I expect the replacement toners to last considerablly longer.
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