IMHO, you are better off using an on line service or a local outfit rather than buying a printer. Using these places will be less expensive by about 1/2 the cost, or less, and you will not have the color managment problems many seem to have when they print at home.

If you want cheap, snapshot quality, just to collect visual memories, what Ronk suggested is OK. But even so the cheap prints are made on cheap plastic coated paper that is not proven to last even one generation.

On the other hand if you are doing photography as an art/craft for personal visual expression, and care about reproducing precisely what you visualize and photograph, there are a number of good choices. Pigment ink printers using good quality fiber based papers will make fine prints that will last a 100 years or more even framed and hanging on a wall. Which to get depends largely on what you choose as your maximum print size. Regardless, Epson has the most choice in a pigment ink photo printer with the Stylus Photo R800 for letter-size, and the the very similar R1800 that will print to 13 inches wide. Canon has the best current 13 inch photo printer in the Pixma 9500 Pro.

Color management is not all that difficult, and the workflow is described fully in just a few page article that needs to be learned.

You get out of a camera and computer what you are willing to put into it in learning the skills involved. Which can reward your creativity with much satisfaction in what you can create.

Bravo Siera, EFX.
Many of the big box outfits use Fuji Crystal Archive paper and Adorama, MPix and My Photo Pipe use Kodak Endura paper.

Ronk,

I believe both are resin-coated papers - in other words cheap plastic. To date there has never been any independent, objective scientific testing to determine the potential life and stability of RC papers. However most government agencies ban the use of RC paper for any archival record, and the organizations and associations of conservators associated with museums and art galleries as well as university and other large public libraries have collected significant evidence that RC papers deteriorate rather rapidly and have very strict rules about accepting RC materials and very limiting standards about their storage and display.

This is not my opinion, it is a matter of record anyone can look up if they have any doubts.

I have been looking at the HP B9180. I had HP send me some sample prints from this printer and was pleasantly supprised by the quality of the print and the variety of papers including canvas that it can print one. The B&W's were great. It may be cheaper to print through some other companies but for my finer work I like to do it myself.

I still use a smaller HP for my 4 x 6's, just because they added the improved ink and it is fast.