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Hi,
My solution is not to buy a new laser printer.
I still have a couple of old HP Cannon engine printers mainly because they have not yet broken down and are cheap to run.
At present I have an old HP Color Laserjet 5 over 15 years old. It is slow to print compared to modern printers, but the toner comes in a bottle and is cheap to buy and one bottle does about 5,0000 pages for $10.
You can buy an old printer for not much money and keep it for special printing. You will need a computer with a parallel port and using Windows XP to drive the printer. I do run Windows 7 but found it did not have the drivers for the old HP printer. But using an old computers as a file server (for music) running XP allows me to have a print server as well and Windows 7 downloads a driver to install from the XP computer the first time you use it and then prints normally. If not used the computer, screen, Windows XP were headed to the rubbish bin.
Look for old HP printers, Cannon printers in second hand stores as repackaged cartridges are cheap to buy. Look to the ones that seem to build like a tank and are heavy to pick up. I have worn out several modern printers at work, but these old one keep running. They do need to be cleaned now and then.
Just another way.
Cheers
Tim