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> The printers of today are awful landfill fodder compared to the Okidata's of the 90's.

Maybe. But how expensive were they?

I can buy a good laser printer for under $200 these days. It will be more compact, lighter, mechanically simpler and use way less power than older printers. Something has to give.

Some older printers were really overengineered (which in many cases did make them more reliable), but that has a cost. Turns out, consumers didn't want to pay those costs.



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