Hi Huffie,
I'm up the road from you in Yosemite...
Double-check with whatever printer you get to make sure it will work with your old 10.7...
For service when it becomes time, Pacific Office Products in Sacramento is the place to take your packable printer or have him come out for larger.
In the 15-plus years I've used Epson, My 2000P went in two times to have the waste pads cleaned and then reset before it died and was replaced with a 3880 five years ago. It made one trip in for the black switch-over defect...My 9900 (2nd hand) just got serviced by POP this year, probably it's second-ever service.
Now I started with the desk-top printers and after a couple of years I bumped up a size to do larger prints and canvas. The last size bump up was to a 9800 then four years later to the 9900 with heavy-duty cutter for canvas. I simply outgrew the smaller printers for many products and a lot of my prints were from lower-res cameras... If you are happier with sheet feed, go for it. If you want to run rolls, canvas, more economically-priced inks, then move up to the 24" and larger printers, depending on how many friends you have to help you unpack and set it up.