I personally would look at: cost per print, more than the capital cost of the printer. If you need or want a printer you may consider it a price worth paying, or you may just decide that a cheaper option is for you.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html