My fiancee has another 18 months of uni left, doing her masters, and at the moment (noting that of course her workload will only increase, not decrease) she's printing about 100 pages in colour a week.

She doesn't have to print out about half of what she's printing (study guides) but it certainly helps her study being able to take her reference materials with her whereever she goes (just needed to clarify before people start querying the amount of printing).

Our current printer, a Canon i250 was great when we got it for the little printing we were doing, but considering we're printing near enough to 6000 colour prints a year, I've decided that it's time to upgrade to a serious printer.

With the study that she's doing, even post graduation we will always have a office on-the-go, so I'm considering buying a fairly robust printer that will handle almost medium-office capacity printing and should keep us going for the next 2-6 years (if not longer)

I've come across a few nice printers, including a range of Solid Ink printers, and just wondering if anyone here has experience with these, or can offer me advice.

Is Solid Ink a viable alternative, or am I just being crazy? I'm considering this series of Solid Ink printers, (probably the DN), so any other information [including non Solid Ink recommendations] would be great.