One of the best purchases you can make for yourself is a compact color laser printer. If you're on the budget, go on eBay and look up a used HP LaserJet P1102w that's in good condition, sold by a seller who knows their shit. The model's like a decade old but it won't let you down.
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Testimonial: At some point I ended up with a Fuji Xerox DocuPrint CM205FW in my home (I actually, sincerely, do not know how) and honestly, you'd have to fistfight me for it and you better come armed. I don't even know if it's a good example of its kind, but it's easily the best, most reliable, most cost-efficient printer I've had. Laser printers rule, get you one.
Though if you take that as a specific recommendation, it's very much a document printer. It feeds heavier stuff like gloss photo paper poorly and cardstock I wouldn't even risk. Works fine with no manufacturer software, and sometimes even over the network (don't let it get an address from DHCP and don't try the wireless functionality. Cable it in, give it a hard address, and it will be slow but fine)
I've had an old canon black and white laser printer for about 12 years now. It's never given me trouble, and in all my printing I've only changed the toner twice. like 25 bucks each time.
I bought a Laserjet 400 long ago, it's old enough to predate the current state of software phoning home to check if your toner subscription is paid and whatnot, works great, can actually print quite decent photos on the fancy slick paper. It started having trouble feeding paper reliably a few years ago because the rubber roller thingie was wearing out, so I bought a new part for like $20 and found a video on youtube explaining the secret button pushes for service mode to rotate the internals into position to pop the old one off and the new one on and it's good as new!