Printer suggestions?

For photo quality, nothing will beat a good inkjet. The drawbacks are slow speed (minutes per page rather than pages per minute), expensive ink and expensive paper. Colour lasers have decent quality, but give real speed, and roughly half the cost per page.

If speed or cost per page is more important than quality, invest in a colour laser. If you're going to print lots of text and occasional high quality photos you may want to invest in a mono laser as well as an inkjet. If text is not important and photo printing needs to be best quality but in small volume, go for an inkjet.

If you are going to print a lot and the print quality is important, I recommend the Epson printers. They also tend to be faster than other units in the same price range. Check the number of ml in each catridge and buy the one with the largest capacity.  You definitely don't want a 40UX (even though they are often given away).  It has a tiny cartridge that needs to be changed often.  

If you are going to let it sit for days without printing, I would probably going with a Canon or HP.  They don't seem to clog up as often as the Epson when they sit around unused.  When I have investigated cartridge capacities, I usually found that the HP had the larger size. One of them (I think it was a 845) had a 50ml cartridge, almost twice the size of most.

I saw a HP color laser in OfficeMax the other day for $600 USD. For volume printing, a laser is cheaper. But most inkjets have higher resolution (dpi).

I would have to agree with heskyttberg, the canon i800 series of printers are fast, cheap to run, and produce great results (and they truely do know when the ink cartridge is empty, not just a page count).