i bought a cheap($30us) hp 3520 works really great. the main reason i bought it was the ink was $18 for black and $21 for color at the local wal-mart. i can get it cheaper off the net but if i run out i dont have to pay $30 or more to get it locally. i also have a lexmark x75 printer /scanner combo which works great but the ink is unreal $$. most of the new printers are cheap and work great, just see what ink it takes and check the prices. cannon has really good printers and some of their ink is like $9 or less. i hate the refill crap, it's a big mess and poor copy quality.
as for your current printer, i searched it and found alot of people with the same trouble, no real solutions. there was some that said they had that model and it worked fine, unless you need to set the bios.......let me find a link.
http://www.techadvice.com/tech/S/ScannerParallel_TS.htm