Originally Posted By: Dignan
But no, the hardware isn't good anymore either. I've seen a ton of them go bad after a very short time (less than two years).

I bought a HP CLJ2600N over 7 years ago and that is still going strong. I don't do any heavy printing with it, though. I only had to change out the cyan cartridge earlier this year, otherwise it's still the original cartridges installed.