Not the best article I've ever read - yes, Printers can be a PITA, but I think that's inevitable because they are complex electromechanical devices which are re

Not the best article I've ever read - yes, Printers can be a PITA, but I think that's inevitable because they are complex electromechanical devices which are required to be very cheap. And in many cases almost disposable - something which is a real crime. Got given a Laserjet 400Pro the other day, purely because it had a label stuck in the paper path so had been written off. I've fixed it (zero cost other than time), but I'd be surprised if I could get £30 for it, despite it working perfectly. Printers must be a serious environmental nightmare. As for being happy, I must be the exception to the rule. I have a Laserjet 4000 here which has been sat on my home network since I was given it as part of a load of IT gear I was given in 2000. It has a page count of over 70k (it was the low mileage one of the two printers I was given at about 40k when I got it - the other already had 130k on it!), and just works. All I've ever had to to do it in 16 years of reasonably heavy use is to put paper in it, change the toner once (got 3 new toners with it as well!), and buy a new paper tray because the rollers were worn (£6). It's connected to my Ubuntu server and works on Google Cloud print as well as a locally shared Windows printer. Its only downside is the high (18W) standby consumption, but like my ageing central heating boiler, I'm not going to change it just because of that.