I (partly) got into Linux because I needed a cheap postscript printer: my (awesome but quickdraw-only) StyleWriter mangled everything QuarkXPress sent it.

So an old 386 laptop, slackware (on floppies), ghostscript and some jiggery-pokery gave me an AppleTalk Postscript printer for peanuts. It showed up in the Chooser as a LaserWriter II and worked just the same (except for smaller margins). The biggest cost was a RS232 to Apple-style cable.

The alternative would have been paying out for a (at the time) expensive laser printer.

And I could leave that stylewriter unused for months, yet when I came to print, the quality was perfect: no missing lines or head cleaning required. I only got rid of it when I ditched Quark.