Who is not worried with ink costs due to own Refilling cartridges, cheap counterfeit cartridges, will be fully satisfied with this printer! Meanwhile, I have tested scan function, duplex printing, CD printing and photo printing, and everything has fully meets my requirements. The slight roll traces described in mehrereren reviews in the photos, I can indeed confirm, however, this can be seen only at very closer look - I look at photos normally in more than 10 cm distance to, hence not an issue for me. Ink usage I can not judge yourself, as I previously had no experience in the field, but I even top off (in this regard so far by the way also no problem), I have no worries there. Consumption, however, seems to me not to be extremely high, the cartridges hold a long time.