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Epson or Canon Photo Printers (not AIO)

Hi all,
I saw a Canon vs Epson thread but I am looking more at photo printers and
best photo quality.
Its time to replace my aging Epson R210.

Many years back, I owned an HP deskjet 400 but decided their quality was at
most third amongst the Top 3 (Epson, Canon, HP).
Canon almost died with crap quality when Epson released their 1440 dpi
printers (canon had standard 360dpi and premium model 600dpi) many years ago
but have since bounced back very strong in recent years.

The Epson R230 would have been a very good replacement but I also wanted
something of a later generation too. Problem is I want it in this small size
and both Canon and Epson seems to think we have alot of table space. All
their newer photo printers are huge! In anycase, would like to seek opinions
because since my first bubblejet (Canon BJ210) many years back, I have not
been using Canon since. I only need A4.

Here is what I have compared so far :

1. Epson uses 5 colours and 1 Black. Canon uses 3 colours and 2 blacks. That
seems to indicate Epson has an edge in colour rendition.

2. Epson cartridges cost slightly more than Canon ones but that does not say
anything about their price/capacity though. I was told the Canon print head
can be user purchased and replaced if needed but not sure if this applies to
the latest models. Epson's print head cannot be changed.

3 Epson has epson for thick matt photo paper which canon does not. This
gives really nice magazine-like matt prints.I do not like gloss.
Epson also appear to have a wider range of media to choose from.

4. Epson has its photo enhance mode. Canon has a "colour correction" mode.

5. Both can print CDs.

6. Canon has 9600x2400 dpi whereas Epson has 5760x1440 only.
(My current R210 only has 2880x1440 and it prints stunning photos already)

7. Canon can print multiple pages per page as well as double sided. Epson
cannot.

8. My scanner is an Epson Perfection V100. It works very well with the Epson
R210. Not sure about the canon.

Anyway, I am comparing the Epson R270/290 against the Canon IP46xx/IP45xx
series. Any views on this is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.