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I would be very wary of an HP2015 on ebay. I have one of them, and I can tell you that it is one of the worst quality printers ever to reach the market. When it works, it is spectacular. The problem is that many of them suffered from a severe soldering problem with the fuser board. HP refused to acknowledge the problem, repairing only the ones in warranty, and not selling replacement boards for the others that failed. At the time, the HP forum was filled with complaints about these printers, yet HP just ignored the problem. One of the forum contributors came up with a "fix" that required baking the board at high temperature for 15 minutes. Yay! It worked. Trouble is that is only works for a while, and then the problem comes back. Baking again makes it work, but with each baking the working interval gets shorter, until it doesn't work at all.
Be advised: even if it works when you get it, there is a high probability that it will fail. I paid a printer repair house to repair it before the fix was made public. The "replacement" board turned out to have been cycled through the fix, and it eventually failed. Replacement boards available on the internet are in the same category. HP did not put replacement boards on the market.
A HP LaserJet P2015dn bought on E-Bay might be just what you want.
Use only genuine HP ink also for best results. I do.