I've owned Canons, Epsons, HPs, Samsungs, Brothers and all I can is that the best ones for reliability have been the Brother printers. I now own both a Brother laser and an inkjet, both multi-function. The consumables are much more reasonable - whether you buy name brand or third party. We've owned a lot of printers in the past few years with kids away at university and two equipped households. I also liked my Canon all-in-one inkjet - until it died. My Samsung laser was a tank and worked well for 8 years - and then died. I might have bought another Samsung laser but the Brother I got was on sale at the time and got stellar reviews. By this time I wanted wireless, ethernet and multi-function in my laser printer as well as my inkjet. I've owned the Brother inkjet for about 4 years now - never a hiccup.
Won't touch inexpensive Epsons with a ten foot pole - they have always caused problems and died on us in very short order. HPs typically have very expensive consumables and little in the way of third-party options for some models.
Note: I expect my printers to do a good job - the B&W laser printers must produce crisp, clear results. Consistently. Inkjets should produce good results too, but I NEVER expect anything that is a "consumer" printer to produce excellent photographs. For that, you do need to spend a whole lot more ($800-$900 and up) and that's on both the printer and the inks (which should be light-fast, btw). The consumables on a printer in that class are very expensive - and unless you're doing this sort of thing all the time, it's so easy to make mistakes (and spend lots of money reprinting things) that I think for most of us, it's worthwhile to find a good professional digital photo printer to do that work. I'm talking about things you want to put on the wall here.
Read lots and lots of reviews. Ignore Consumers Reports, who rarely seem to get it right with things like printers - if you read their reviews and then read the actual USER reviews, it's like they're from two different planets. They are useful for things like cost of printing per sheet...not so impressed with their reviews...
