Who ever invented the inkjet and thought it was a perfect thing for casual users who rarely print things should be shot.
I have just spend another several hours of my life trying to coax an inkjet (in fact, several inkjets from my stockpile, going through them to find just ONE that I could get to function properly) so my mum could print some photos, as she needs to do a couple times a year (for reasons unimportant). Cleaning cycle after cleaning cycle, cleaning contacts and nozzles on HP carts, cleaning cycles and dripping alcohol into brother cartridge ports, using all manner of ideas to coax a brand new HP cartridge apparently dry and clogged from the factory into actually, you know, working.
My favourite part was where I finally got one genuine black HP cartridge flowing, actually printed one page perfectly, and then the printer decided the cartridge, the full cartridge, was magically no longer valid, not just invalid but "not intended for this printer", despite the fact that it's exactly the right cartridge.
Finally, touch wood, I have coaxed both the colour and black cartridges into enough life to give a fair rendition of a realistic colour print on the HP, if that will last longer than the ink takes to wear off my hands, is anybody's guess.
Inkjets have precisely two things going for them; firstly, they are small and cheap, unlike most colour lasers which are big and expensive, and second they contain lots of useful parts which can be liberated when you get so fed up with them that they take flying lessons out the nearest window.
/Rant