Jose wrote:
The amount of money some people spend to just print some text is amazing.
Not much of a help, but the sweet spot right now seems to be the old Oki LED printers. Rugged, "standard" (supporting an early revision of PCL, and maybe Epson/Proprinter emulations), toner's still available cheaply, and decent enough for 300?DPI text. The Linux crowd seem to like Samsung for cheap high-res Postscript lasers, but the build quality of any current-era stuff seems iffy until you get up to the $1,000 'workgroup' range.
Inkjets, of course, all suck relatively equally, though each make in different ways. I've currently landed an old Deskjet 560C, reasonable in the sense that the off-brand cartridges at least come with a full load of ink for your $30.
