My father had a high end photo printer. That ive been maintaining since he passed. In general a couple prints a month is what was needed to prevent printers from clogging. The newer stuff with the purge tanks internally schedule regular purges to prevent this. I still try and get there to run photos once a month.

His collection of paper is astounding. He primarily had canson in just about every type and size.

The smallest size he would print on was 8.5x11. It ends up being cheeper than buying the precut smaller sizes.

I have mostly stayed away from his canson stuff and printed on Epson Premium photo glossy