What is the best quality printer / scanner combo with the cheapest ink cartridges?

I just went shopping with a friend today and she bought a new printer. It was a HP. The printer cost $79.99 and the black ink is $14.00 and color is $18.00. She bought it at Best Buy. It's a really nice and simple printer.

Definitely HP. I have a HP 1410 All In One and it has the cheapest ink cartridges Ive seen compared to lemark and others. The black cartridge costs about 14 dollars and the color one costs about 16. But I get my ink from Sams you can get two black and one color for 40 dollars. Definitely HP.

You might want to look for a printer that you could refill the cartridges. There is places like Walgreen's and other office supply stores that offer cartridges refills. Ink is never cheap, so the only thing that you can do to save money is finding cheaper ways to get it to your printer (like using refill rather than buying new cartridges. At least you will save the money for the new cartridge itself). I have 4 printers, all picture quality and all fairly good brands. The reason i have 4 is that when the first ran out of ink, when i went to buy more i noticed that there is always specials on printers, and that it would cost me just about the same to buy a new printer (which comes with new cartridges already) than to refill the old one. And that happened all the time so i kept buying new ones. That's another way to go, maybe even sell the old printer like on eBay or somewhere else and make some money for your new one.

cheapest is the new line of kodak printers

HP