If photo quality is not an important issue, you should consider cost. I would certainly not use an expensive photo paper on a four color printer. Although an eight color photo printer such as the Canon Pro-100 is a top notch printer at a very reasonable price, you should understand up front that your prints will cost you more in small quantities than sending them to a professional lab for printing. You should consider that although the cost of the printer is relatively low, color photo inks are very expensive, don't last long and there are eight instead of four. Additionally, there is also the cost of paper which also can be very pricy. It will also be very important that your monitor has a true Adobe RGB color gamut and that you add the cost of a monitor calibrator such as a Spyder or X-rite to your setup cost and, if you are going to use the more expensive papers, a printer calibrator would also be in order. On the positive side, you will gain control of the process and, with practice, exceptional quality prints. Even though I have all the equipment, for proofing 4 X 6 prints, I send them out because it is so much cheaper than printing them myself. I save my printer for large display prints.