Comment by hyperdimension
3 years ago
I agree. It's so hard to recommend printers to family and friends now. It seems they all suck in their own very special way.
The only reason I even have a printer is that I happened to find an old LaserJet for 10$ at my local thrift store. It was "broken" but all i had to do was oil the laser scanner motor. Right era of printer, toner cartridges are only around 20$, and I put in a JetDirect card. Only thing is the memory is a bit lacking, even being fully upgraded, so for complex documents it sometimes will pause between pages.
I definitely wouldn't have bought a printer new today.
+10 to this. Old monochrome laserprinters are the way to go.
Amd a very good case for anti e-waste laws and right to repair.
Never throw out a serviceable laser printer.
All my printing is via a 15 year old desktop mini laser printer rescued from a dump. It's been worth locating a printer engineering company to service it. Most of the time it sits idle in a clean, dry cupboard. When I print it's usually a whole document for marking, so it's worth the bother of getting it out, plugging it in and running one print job. Ink-jets, and that whole market is a failed technology in my book, not for technical reasons, but because the vendors have turned every product into toxic crap.