Monochrome laser printer for Home use - fed up with inkjet costs

I also got fed up with inkjets few years ago, when they came out they were great replacement for overly expensive Lasers, First one was a Cannon C20 and I spent gallons of then cheap ink, refilling same cartridge dozens of times. Later on ink cartridges were sealed and even if you could refill they lasted very limited time and with higher DPI nozzles became too fine and clogged or dried out fast. Then manufacturers invented chips in cartridges making refill even harder and set of new cartridges same price as whole printer.
First laser printers didn't have any memory in them making them dependent on PC's RAM.
First really good laser printer I had in the office was HP Laserjet 4l, phenomenal machine, printed a lot on it but most trying were labels for our products, I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said it was into millions. We had a printer service come ones a week with new/refilled cartridges as I went thru 2 - 3 cartridges a week only on this printer. It was still working flawlessly when I left in 1997.
Few years ago I got one which was still serviceable from a hospital when they replaced it with newer one. After some cleaning and a refill with brand new cartridge it still works and I have it connected to may spare PC and yes, W10 has a driver for it.
I have now an HP laserjet 1200 connected to main PC and is going strong although 5-6 years old. I added another 2GB of RAM to it so now prints high res and high detail/DPI even faster, only fault I could find with it is that it takes over a minute to initialize and star printing from cold start.
I'm not sure if it's still the case but Brother printers had different laser heads with many LED lasers in the print head instead of usual mirrors and prism. I got couple of used ones few years ago but they printed all black page and I found that it's because of roller which costs more than printer itself. Had to junk them because of that.

Not Fuji-Xerox ... I just wish mine would break down so I can get another brand laser (and that's not an endorsement suggesting any sort of implied longevity for the FX).

jimbo45 said:

Thanks everybody for replies

am marking this thread as solved now !!

BTW if zillions switch to laser printers I hope these companies won't do the same thing as the ink jet producers -- make the consumables hideously expensive and short lived --- of course currently lasers are a very viable option even though the initial outlay is a little bit more expensive than an inkjet.

I found also that I actually have an old portable scanner which takes A4 and still works -- needs an XP Virtual machine to run but it's fine !!! -- so that takes care of the scanning problem too . (I don't scan a lot of documents anyway but it's a useful facility to have once in a while.

Cheers
jimbo

Consumables for laser printers are also used in photo copy machines so that gives very large market with many manufacturers and competition makes wonders for prices.