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I've had a Samsung ml-2525 for probably ten years, it works great. Sadly Samsung sold their printer division to HP. HP even removed features from the driver, they took out the ability to do manual duplex printing.

HP doesn't sell toner for my model anymore but I was able to find it from cdw. I figure the printer will outlast my ability to find toner for it.

This just confirms my already existing stance to never buy anything from HP.

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Similar here: I've had a bottom-of-the-range Samsung laser for over 10 years, and it just keeps going (using cheap 3rd-party toner cartridges), despite periods of relatively heavy use for a "home" printer (hundreds of pages per day, at times). But I'm not sure what I'll do when one day it finally dies.

Just buy a Brother printer. Mine is probably more than 15 years and runs very cheap and no failures. Haven't even changed drum yet. 3rd-party toners very cheap and can be easily found online.

Also it's easy to get even cheaper refills on these toners. Brother works great.

Seconded on Brother. Mine (B&W laser) is over 7 years old now, does automatic duplex printing, and is on its second toner/drum cartridge. Still trucking along just like it did when it was new. It cost like $120 to buy and only a couple of cents per page.

Of course, their value and longevity means all of these reviews are years out of date so I have no idea if the current models are as good. I hope they are, though.

I'm in a similar situation. 3rd party toner. I've got a Brother laser printer (MFC7840W) that doesn't die. I've owned it for nearly 12 years and I really want a new fancy printer, too, but it's silly to replace something that works.

I think this is the same exact situation I'm in. Getting some banding on one edge so I think I might need to replace the toner, but the last cartridge I bought was probably 8 years ago.

Yeah, I have a Samsung ML-<I can't remember off-hand> printer which still works great after about fifteen years.

Unfortunately, I don't think there are drivers for it for any current OS. We have it connected to an iBook of similar vintage which more or less is only used to use the printer.

Probably Linux has drivers. You could set up a network printer with a raspberry.

I'm using mine with cups, all I needed was the ppd file. It has been a while but I think I found it in either their linux tarball or the mac driver.

Is it listed here? https://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/supported.html

Thanks to all the replies — looks like I'll be able to set something up!

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