The Printer We Need

I have a (color) Laser Jet Pro at home. It jams fairly often, and if I don't turn it off it'll wake me in the middle of the night loudly "calibrating." Other than that, it's been quite a good workhorse for several years and continues to meet my needs. I had some issues printing over wifi at first, but wifi printing with it has pretty much just worked for a few years now. It's still a large, heavy, fragile-seeming piece of office equipment.

Having supported enterprise laser printers at scale:

The low-end printers don't usually have repair parts and their operating costs are higher because their toner cartridges are small and relatively expensive.

This in contrast to the very large and initially-expensive laser printers: plenty of repair parts, fewer failures and cost per page is lower.

If you want the lowest TCO printer, the safest bet is a mid-high end model. For personal use, buy a used flagship laser printer 2-3 generations old.

People buy inkjet printers because their initial acquisition costs are low but they don't think about amortized cost per page.

Needing a 300mb "driver" to use it doesn't help

Links? My printer just tanked and I'll never buy HP anything ever again.