Digital BW, The Print

I'm used to the quality I get on Hahnemühle papers from a 2200 printer
typically 8.5x11 through 13x19 I have portfolios in several sizes. 50 50
"black and white" vs. "color".

I just drove 5000 miles in 40 days from Portland Oregon where I've lived for
30 years to NYC where I'm going to live now probably for the decades to
come. I was born here 55 years ago.
I'm living in a motel for a few weeks till I can find an apartment in an
optimal area for work and live..
I'm going over my 3000 image in Adobe Bridge with Photoshop tweaking for
uploading to my website or some kind of a Blog page which I'm kind of
blocked on right now I'm more comfortable with the idea of having a stack of
prints, a portfolio to show for "it". My "body of work" is not the same as a
result of this trip over here but I need results. Results results. I imagine
much of the tweaking "Photoshopping" I do to my final edit will apply both
to what I think of as "printing to monitor" as well as to paper. I like
nicer matte paper. 

My 2200 is in route and had been screwing up on me anyway and problematic as
everyone knows with black and white so hopefully the trip will do it in and
I'll have no problem justifying the current model and even upgrading to the
17x22. Which means my apartment needs to be 18x23.

But right now I just want to knock out some  8.5x11 prints and I'm under the
crazy idea that that can be done with an Epson very compact and cheep yet
pigment carrying printer. Like a c88 +? Which cost less than what I'm used
to spending on a box of paper. Like buying a Polaroid swinger. The
expendables cost more than the non expendables. So you feel like throwing
the non expendable out in that case. Making it expendable after all.

So I'm trying to figure out what nice matte paper I could expect to get good
results with in such a scheme.
Is my scheme viable in terms of what any kind of consensus might be on this
list?  Are ultra cheap printers viable at least for the very short or
limited term? Its of course my impression that they are. And that the
results Id get would not be glaringly insufficient in comparison to my
regular results. In the same stack, box or "book".
And can you use or is it worth it to use some of the better mat papers?
However I'd not mind to use some which I don't have to feed in one at at
time which is wearing on me in my regular printing with the Hahnemühle
smooth photo.

Glad I don't have to lay out trays in my bathtub. My back ain't what it used
to. Be.

Mark Rabiner