Yup, I agree - my main printers I use at home are a Laserjet 5P for day to day letters and stuff, and an ancient Laserjet 2 for higher quantities.

The 5P is temperamental, but almost everything in it is user repairable as everything is done on the PC. The 2 is rock solid, and is coming up for 10 years old (or thereabouts) It has had the fuser unit replaced once, and up until a while ago it had regular ozone filter changes (I can't find them any more)

The best bit - the LJ2 only cost me some skin off my elbow as I dragged it out of a skip. Amazing what you find dumped - I found my Osbourne luggable in a ditch, and after I cleaned out the water, mud and weeds it worked perfectly.