You may have noticed that most of the writers who do product testing and write reports have not covered dye sub printers recently. The fact you won't find much about them in the Equipment Review archives should suggest something to you. To make it more pointed considering a cheap dye sub may be a bit like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Maybe if you identified what inkjet printer it is that you are dissatisfied with, you might get some feedback indicating a choice that will assure a better experience from some of the members of the forum.