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Don't even think about getting an inkjet printer unless you really, really need color, and need it often. Even if you aren't dealing with DRM and price-gouging BS, the ink dries and gums up the print heads unless you're using them regularly.
For me, color is a want, not a need (meaning I'm not relying on the quality of the output or making money from it), and only an occasional one. But I did want it, along with other bells and whistles like automatic duplex printing, for my "buy it for life" printer. So I decided to go with a Brother color laser.
I ended up buying two used ones from some office getting rid of them on Craigslist for maybe $50? each. The one I actually print with -- the other is basically for spare parts -- has almost 60K pages on it and is complaining that it's due for some expensive "fuser" and "PF Kit" replacements, but it keeps working, so I haven't actually bothered yet.
If your use case is very much about stickers on sticker paper, and you're doing it regularly and often (not necessarily tons of pages at a time, but not going weeks at a time without printing anything), you may actually want an inkjet rather than a laser. Aside from the images not being as pretty as with an inkjet, the other disadvantage of a laser for you is that because it heats the paper, you might have to worry about paper compatibility to avoid gumming up the machine with melted adhesive.