My experience with canon printers in the past has been you can run empty colour and a full black and they work just fine. I haven't used anything newer, though.

When you're just printing text, be sure to specifically print black and white in your printer settings. If you don't specify B&W most colour printers will use some coclour when printing text. They do this to help make text and stuff look prettier by putting colour around the edges and whatnot.... It's probably a ploy to sell more colour ink, take it for what you will.
If you look closely around the edges of stuff you've printed, you'll probably notice it. Unless something has changed in the last few years, but anything that makes them more money is apt to stay the same.

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Apparently I am not the only with running out of ink prematurely on MB2320 Canon printers

Why does my ink run out so quickly? - Canon Community

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None of them. Such a beast does not exist.

Color laserjet is so inexpensive now compared with just a few years ago, there's no reason to downgrade to an inkjet any more. Yes laser costs a little more up front, but they are work horses that turn out thousands of pages without blinking. HP makes some good ones, and have been in the laser printer business for decades. Consumer inkjets are tinkertoys that break when you look at them funny, have obscenely expensive printing costs because you get a scant few pages out of each expensive cartridge, and they're rated for a pathetic duty cycle, so they crap out and break after even modest home use.

Also, you don't want built in wifi. It's typically poorly implemented, with poor range, and difficult to configure. Not to mention that wifi standards change every couple of years, so even while the printer works perfectly, it won't be compatible with future wireless network technology. Better to get a "network ready" printer, where you insert a LAN module. The HP JetDirect comes to mind. It's a wired Ethernet port, that you can attach to a small wireless bridge. Down the road when you upgrade your wireless network, you simply upgrade the printer's wireless bridge - no need to toss the whole printer.

I bought my HP laserjet in 2006 when I worked for HP and got a good employee discount. It's still working flawlessly today, more than a decade later, and I print around 1000 pages a year on it. It has a 10/100 JetDirect Ethernet adapter in it, which I have plugged into an inexpensive wireless bridge. I've upgraded the wireless bridge 3 times now over the years, from "B", to "G", to "N" wireless technology. The printer doesn't know the difference, and I get the latest wireless connection for my workhorse printer, at a very small cost.

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Ok. Frys has a Canon MX922 for $59 today. It does everything wireless and uses individual inks instead of one black and one for color.

Does not get better than that. And my experience is that those individual inks are inexpensive if you buy refilled online.

If I did not already have two printers, I would buy this one.