Over the years I have found with injets that -
Cannon, great print quality, separate colours, replaceable head (neither exactly cheap), expensive servicing resulting in a change of make.
Lexmark, used in one of my workplaces because, as the IT man said "Built like brick outhouses". But the colours are in a single cartridge, and some sellers of remade cartridges wont include Lexmark in their range due to reliability issues.
HP, similar to Lexmark in results, but similarly not cheap to run. Good printing when new from both.
Epson, eternally cleaning itself. A mate swears by them. He haunts computer fairs buying cut price cartridges, a continuous feed system might be a better answer for him, since he prints pictures semi-professionally. Excellent results.
Can't comment on other makes until they come to me and offer a sample for trial.
New printers are usually cheaper than their refill because they have much less ink in their supplied cartridges, and the printer manufacturers are not in business to sell printers - their main aim is to sell ink.
For a regular user, high capacity makes sense, but for an occasional user, there is a problem - the heads can dry out, and have difficulty clearing, with the higher capacity ones losing out with a lot more trapped ink. As I understand it, lasers are immune to this kind of thing, but inkjets do give better picture prints.