If you print any sort of volume, this printer is the way to go. Yes you can buy printers for next to nothing but if you consider that this printer comes with approximately 2 years worth of ink, add up the cost of ink cartridges for the cheaper printers and you will soon discover that the total cost of ownership with the Epson leaves the cheaper printers in the dust. As an aside for Linux users, yes this printer works with Linux as does the scanner - even though its not officially supported by Epson. (Ubuntu 20.04).