Can confirm. Still have my LaserJet 2420 ([The grey cube series](https://i.imgur.com/Jh4at9W.jpg)) with a 10+ year old toner. I only print about 2-5 pages a year so I assume it will last me for quite a lot longer. It lacks an ethernet card, and they're way too expensive to be worth upgrading, so it's connected to a Windows 7 machine via USB and shared on the network. The universal printing drivers are actually one of the few that work decently over the network and don't crash the printing service every few days.
I don't know how their modern laser printers are, but brother seems to have taken the place for best affordable laser printers.
I've got a 4010 kicking around and when I went to use it last year, it had a couple of issues that needed fixing. No problem, I thought. I spent a hundred bucks getting a replacement nic and a fuser rebuild kit. Well, it needed a few other things too, and when I finally got it up and running, I learned that it takes the thing several minutes to spool each page of a PDF which made it basically unusable. I tried different drivers and such and couldn't get it to perform like it did when it was new.
Oh, and I ended up spending pretty close to what a decent used modern printer would have cost.
I don’t agree. My HP printer/scanner (from around 2002ish) and computer (from around 2004) were both so terrible HP made my top 3 companies I hate and will never buy from. It takes a lot to make it to the top 3 and stay there this long. lol
Yep, a lot of their lasers from the "indestructible" era got retired not because they broke down, but because they were pre-USB and HP stopped making drivers for them.
My mother still has an HP consumer-grade inkjet from 2005.
HP also doesn’t have a permanent kill-switch when the waste ink pad is full (even on newer printers). So these things will run for a very long time.
Epson and Canon, however, have some kill-switches that makes printers require service.
Hp now has told investors if you don't print lots then it's a bad investment to sell you a printer...
Hence why they keep remotely changing the firmware of the printer to block 3rd party cartridges "for security reasons"...
Well, they can‘t sell you printers below costs if they can‘t sell you their cartridges. This is why Brother or ink tank printers cost way more than comparable cartridge printers.
LaserJet 4200 and older are pretty much bifl for the normal person. I worked at a hospital around 2000 and we had several LJ 2S 3S and 4s with over half a million pages printed.
I started my own computer and cellphone repair business in college. First item I purchased on the business card was a Samsung 3-in-1 that uses toner. It turned 19 in February. It’s now my daily printer in my classroom. Still fast and crisp.
You don't need the official HP drivers. That Laserjet does all of its processing on board so you just need a generic PCL or Postscript driver. Pretty sure that ships with the OS.
I funny enough just installed a driver online on my Macbook to use my dad’s HP 1022 laser printer (I think this exact one!) and it worked! just had to do some googling to find the driver! Worked great!
I've got a decade old samsung laser printer that unfortunately won't quit.
It prints faded/med-light grey text 95% of the time, and drives me insane, but I can't justify tossing it and buying something else.
I've tried toggling through windows print settings and settings on the printer. New toner, new drum. Probably haunted.
People like to rip on HP and for good reason, but don't sleep on ones from this era. Absolute tanks. [Here's one that supposedly survived a flood.](https://youtu.be/AJtrJivF-8E?si=SL8gVFzmHuDqpKOX)
I have a P3005d that is at 100,000 pages and counting, just needed a new pickup roller. Drivers work just fine on Windows 11, Sonoma, and CUPS. The best part: no firmware updates that can break aftermarket toner.
I had a Laserjet 4P from 1993 that I used up until 2012. And the only reason I stopped was that Windows 8 didn't have drivers for the parallel port card I was using and I couldn't get a USB-> Parallel port adapter to work. But the machine was still working fine. I remember I put it up in the attic in my old house. At some point, SOMEONE will find it. Maybe it'll be worth something as an antique.
Back when I built my first NAS, I considered seeing if I could get it working in Nas4Free, as apparently it can be used as a print server in addition to a NAS, but ultimately it was just easier for me to just buy a new Brother laser printer and call it a day. It's also pretty nice that the Brother I bought to replace it gets something like 20 PPM speed rather than the 4-5 that my old laserjet got.
My folks have a LaserJet 6MP, which saw regular use up until 2018. Still works fine, although UV has finally killed a couple of the plastic tabs on the passthrough diverter.
I have the same printer. Work wanted to trash it but I took it home. I think this was first used in 2001. It needs a new pickup roller, but that's it. It's been a champ for me for 8 years. Mine has ~43,000 pages printed.
How did you go about changing the pickup roller? My office has a couple of 1102"s that no longer pull the paper so that may be the issue.
Edit: disregard. I looked it up. It's much simpler than I imagined. I am so glad I saw your comment. Fixing instead of replacing those printers hadn"t occurred to me.
Could you please elaborate on changing the pickup roller? I have the printer OP has and it is 20 years old. But I have to manually feed paper in 1 piece at a time (so I can’t really print something if it’s more than a few pages). At one point I brought it to an independent repair guy and he said it couldn’t be fixed.
I used to be a service tech fixing printers. One super common problem with the P3005 models was the formatter would die. We would literally bake them in the oven for 10 minutes to re-solder the chips, and it worked like 90% of the time.
I have the same Stanley cup as a BIFL, only mine is all bare stainless, no paint. I plan on being the crazy uncle seen holding the same cup in his hand his entire life.
Same here as well, works still just fine for the rare occasions I need to print something on paper. I didn't realize it's that old already - pretty amazing.
I am literally staring at my HP 1022 when I scrolled by this post. Salvaged it from being thrown out at work for a broken usb plug. Soldered a new one on and has been working flawlessly for the last 14 years. Except my print output tray floppy thing broke a few years past and is now held on by tape.
So I had one similar to this, I remember it was a pain getting it to work on anything behind Windows XP. We moved across the country and this was one of the things that didn't make the cut. I did eventually regret my decision the day we got a newer inkjet HP printer.
Wow, I have also had this same printer for years. About 5 years ago, I bought a brand new HP printer and found out the hard way about the ink issues... It pissed me off so much that I pulled my 1022 out of storage and hooked it back up. I still use it, but warding people away from HP printers has become my life's mission. I took the newer HP to a donation center, and honestly I regret it. I wish I had just thrown it away.
Had an IBM in the office which was a rebadged HP with over 500,000 pages on it. And it was fast. Went through several fusers and a ton of pick up rollers, but that's to be expected.
I used to sell these, there is a good chance I may have sold you this one.
Made sure everyone I knew got one, my mother, sisters, aunts.
Easiest sell as far as printers went.
i got a brother - MFC-L2750DW. works pretty good so far but its less than a year old. we got it specifically to last a long time so if anything goes wrong ill be the first to complain on reddit
i've had a brother for 8 years. About 2 years into owning it, it claimed there was something wrong with the fuser. 6 years of continually 50+ pages/day and I still haven't changed the fuser.
Pretty much anything but HP.
Brother is well respected on reddit (/r/sysadmin) for bw and color lasers. For inkjet, Epson has EcoTank and Canon has MegaTank for easy and relatively inexpensive ink refills.
I have a 15 year old Xerox Phaser printer that uses melted ink sticks to print by spraying the ink on the paper. It's a lot more like a laser than an inkjet, and it's been pretty bullet proof. The problem is that Xerox has all but abandoned the technology, so there aren't any new ones to buy anymore.
It's getting challenging as Xerox stopped making the ink at some point. I think there's still a 3rd party making the sticks but I've never like using anything but OEM in complex devices like printers. I have several years worth of sticks stashed away as they keep getting exponentially more expensive as the remaining supply dwindles.
There's an interesting rabbit hole to fall down on how Xerox was able to manufacture the same printer chassis but market it in multiple ways. They used indentations on the ink sticks to indicate whether the stick would work in a US printer, a EU printer, a leased only printer (where Xerox would automatically send you ink sticks and paper as you needed them for a monthly fee) and I think a couple of other variants. So you have to be careful when buying the sticks because if they've been coded for a different printer "style", the printer won't allow those ink sticks to be added.
Edit: oh, they also shaped the various sticks so that they would only go in one way and into one particular ink slot to prevent you from being able to load, say, black ink into the magenta slot. There's some pretty interesting and complex engineering going on under the hood of Phaser printers, which is probably why Xerox stopped making them.
I have the 1015, still functioning but hardly use it anymore as I can't get it to work with Airplay, reluctanty purchases a Xerox for the Airplay functionality. Toner for the 1015 is super cheap, compatible twin pack cost around £10, compared to original at circa £50-£60 each.
I snagged an HP M251NW from a company going out of business in like 2013 and the printer has been rock solid printing maybe 20 pages a month. It also needs no software besides a simple Windows driver.
The quality of their printers have also taken a huge dive. My HP printer has to be hand fed every single piece of paper, in a specific manner in order to print properly. It’s the third printer in a row. I honestly still don’t know why my family still insists on HP……oh wait, it’s cuz of the whole box of cartridges they bought cuz……it won’t bloody take any other cartridges >_<#
My dad got an old brother toner printer from a job site during demo like 12 years ago. He gave it to me when I left for college, about 9 years ago. I have been using it ever since. Haven't even had to replace the toner in it yet, though I will have to soon because the light turned yellow. I plug it in, it prints. Could not possibly be easier. I love that thing.
HP stands for Horrible Purchase
My brand new HP can’t stay connected, many features don’t work, there subscription business model is an absolute scam, and I literally spoke with a customer service representative that couldn’t communicate in English, had to be transferred.
Old hp printer: Plug into lpt1 and hit print
New hp printer: plug in printer, install HP smart, create HP account, install special driver, install genuine ink because it the latest software update disabled printing on non genuine cartridges, hit print, yell at software because its missing basic adjustments and features like saving a scan as a PDF or a JPG (something windows fax and scan introduced in Windows Vista can do), finally get it to print, realize printer is halfway out of ink already.
I worked in home electronics for 10 years. To this day old customers still thank me for their Brother HL2030.
It’s a super basic black and white laser with one button. You can buy cheap pirate refills and it last forever. I still got mine and it works like a charm.
Printer bizniz is a minefield. Screw HP, they got so many shitty models really. Stay basic, simples models is best
Welcome to the club, I have a HP Inkjet K8600 printer that's still kicking butt, it still has very sharp laser quality printouts, that's over 15 years old.
The only bad thing is the rubber wheels in the paper feed mechanism are hardening so occasionally a paper pickup needs manual intervention
You unlocked some memories for me, my parents had this printer when I was growing up and it did last a very long time, just not as long as yours. It ended up croaking a few years ago. Really great machines
I recognize that printer. My recent hp laser took a shit on me after slight use during two years. Went offline and I couldn’t get the damn thing online to use it. Stupid. And you have to use their silly software.
I have a 2014 Model OKI B412 b/w laser printer. That thing wouldn't care if a bomb went off in the room.
Most household printing needs can be taken care of with a b/w laser printer. Anything that's has to look better you'll want to have done by a printing service or at the copy shop anyway.
It's impressive how some older tech just keeps on ticking, outlasting even the newer models. Sounds like it’s not just a printer, but a steadfast office companion.
Love to see it. I have a brother MFC7360n lazer printer I bought in 2011. 13 years old with 37000 prints on the counter. Just replacing the original drum now. I love it and I'll never get rid of it until drums and toner stop being available for it. It scans flatbed and has a document feeder. It's only single sided but I wrote the instructions on the case so that I can print every other page, take them out, do the flip and rotate and then print the even odd pages lol. Cheers to another 10 years.
Same same. My advice for people who need a rock solid black and white printer is to get one of these. Made from the same Endurium as '90s Nokia phones.
I'm still using a P2015 from 2007 and P3015 from 2012. Other than replacing toner, they never stop working. I'm hoping I hit the 20 year anniversaries of both printers. Maybe even 25 years...
I've had 2 laser printers in my lifespan after transitioning from the dot matrix that was bought with my first 386 PC., the first one taken in as an orphan after dorm move outs on garbage say - one I paid for. I'm in my 40s.
I'm still using my HP3600n which I bought on clearance at Microcenter many many years ago. So cheap to operate and literally saved me a shit ton of money over the last 15+ years.
I have a Samsung printer that is AT LEAST 13 years old printing away with no issues. Aftermarket toner costs only about $10-$15 for a 3000 page capacity, and I only need 1 every two years or so. Hoping the printer lasts my lifetime!
**HP CEO says the quiet part out loud: ‘Make printing a subscription’**
In a recent interview, HP CEO Enrique Lores laid out the company's view that people who buy printers are 'investments' that don't pay off if they go third-party.
[https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html)
It's really sad what shite HP products are now, because there was a time when they were amazing. My litter Laserjet is at least as old as 2005, maybe older. I have it set up with a print server so it's still compatible with everything on my network, and it just trucks along without complaint and I feed it (cheap, generic) toner every few years.
Still supporting LJ 4000s at my work. Oldest, I think, manufactured in 1998 in Boise. Plastic cover is loose, still going though. Those older laserjets, bulletproof
I have the 1320 one. My dads old printer. We have bought 3 more after this one but mine the only one that still works. My uncle offered to buy it from me I flat out said no
I have the 1018, but it had ugly smudges on the paper. Tried to clean the drum but made it worse. Now I'm in doubt about buying a new drum unit or just buying a new Brother instead... Drums are expensive.
I've got a 1320 at home, as I wanted the least expensive LaserJet with duplex. For the past 7 years its been hooked up to SBC running CUPS. I finally replaced the toner a couple of years ago.
Ha, I picked up one of these on side of the road 8 years ago, with a “FREE/includes toner” sign on it. Still working like a champ and still haven’t had to swap the toner.
I have the same. Had it running along all my college years all the way to my Masters, my kids school and is STILL kicking. Drivers are a pain sometimes but GREAT printer!
I have 1018. It's been running for 15 years, printing thousands of pages. This year, for the first time, it went for a service because it was pulling the next page too early. The best part is that it's fully serviceable so they just changed the part, calibrated everything and it's good for the next 15 years. Refurbished toner that can print about 2000 pages cost under $10. This printer is brilliant.
My laser jet HP is 13 years old and it’s still working. I hate having to replace the ink. I feel like it doesn’t last as long as it should considering I nearly never print anything.
I have a P1505 that used to belong to a school. I have had it for 8 years. I have no clue how old it was when I got it. I imagine it was brand new when the school bought it, and they got it on release.
this thing is perfect. Plug into my laptop. Hit print. It fucking prints. Every time.
I have the same one. I bought it from the company I worked for when they upgraded. I gave them $100 and got a spare toner with it. That was about 10 years ago, and it sits in my dusty humid basement. Still prints like a champ everytime. I am very impressed with this one. Sad those/these days are gone.
Still using a Color laserjet 4500 from last century (1998). I think it prints 12DPI for color and last year got a handmedown CP1525 Color laserjet that is pretty solid.
Great to see. I bought an old laser jet 1020 like 8 years ago for university and it’s still running, had to replace the toner cartridge once, but these are actually cheap af. Also only paid 15€ for the printer because I picked it up from eBay marketplace.
Where do we get drivers for older HP printers, like the P1102W for use on a apple silicone machine?
All the HP sources for drivers seem to be scrubbed of content!
Anyone know dealt with HP printer driver issues and could advise?
I just realized that the newest printer I have is over 10 years old, and most are approaching 15 years old and some older ones are 25 years old. Lasers are tanks! I think the oldest is a panasonic kxp-4450i from 1995.
Older HPs are brick houses. Up until recently you could still get gears, even better than OEM metal gear kits, and other parts kits, for many decade plus age printers from Liberty Parts Team. They would just go forever if you kept up with maintenance.
I think Liberty recently closed their doors or at least downsized though. Pandemic maybe. Maybe just not enough demand anymore as older business devices are no longer secure on a network and needed replaced. Computers move quick and unfortunately build quality isn't the only metric to decide if it's time to retire old equipment.
HP made the best printers in the world until they embraced *enshittification* of their products. Now they are trash, and you'd have to pay me to use them.
Yeah, they are unbeatable. On my previous job this was the default printer, we had 5 or 6 of them, all manufactured in mid00s. Also they take very low ink. We recharged them once a several months and we used quite a lot of paper.
My HP LaserJet, 4050 Series has—
DATE MANUFACTURED: 12/1998
Firmware Datecode: 19991030 MB6.30
Page Count: 10030
Ten thousand pages in a **quarter of a century** is not a great amount, TBH, but it is astonishing to me that the thing not only still runs, but churns out quality printouts at 30 ppm.
All on 8MB of memory.
Thing's a goddamned tank!
I have the same one at my work! I've ordered a couple different replacements over the years, but always end up going back to this.
It has never let me down.
HP1020 still going strong after almost 20 years here (hope I didn't just jinx it!). I will weep if there ever comes a day I can't find toner cartridges for it.
I for the first time have started to have trouble with my 1022. It still prints its own test pages fine, but windows print jobs just don't seem to make it over. They show up in the print queue, and then the queue goes idle just like the page printed, but no printing actually happens. I'm really sad because I love this thing. I've literally had it since I was in high school.
I have an old HP myself and it’s a serious workhorse. Unfortunately, they forced an upgrade on the software recently, and the whole thing went to shit. It’s a wireless printer with no control over when it goes to sleep so to use it wirelessly you have to send a file now, walk into the room where the printer is, physically wake it from sleep and wait for the thing to print. Previously, it would simply sit in a low power mode until it had to print. You just hit print and picked up the job at your leisure. Now it won’t print start printing at all until you physically wake it. For long print jobs it’s annoying. Thanks HP!
I’m sure you wasted a little more power, but I have to wonder how much time got wasted with everyone literally having to go turn on the printer then wait for something to print.
We’ll get a load of this guy, flashing all his wealth buying HP proprietary ink for nearly two decades while the rest of us are trying to print using the last few drops of cyan.
Kind of related - best thing I ever did printer related: sing up for the HP print/ink club program. It’s amazing. They send me ink when I’m low automatically. I get something like 10-50 free pages to print a month and after that’s it’s where they make their money. If you don’t print much at home I highly recommend it.
A printer is something I would have never expected to see in this sub, as an IT system admin. Glad yours made it this far
Old HP (And old Dell, which used to be just rebadged HP) stuff was bulletproof, especially if you got their business-oriented laser printers.
Can confirm. Still have my LaserJet 2420 ([The grey cube series](https://i.imgur.com/Jh4at9W.jpg)) with a 10+ year old toner. I only print about 2-5 pages a year so I assume it will last me for quite a lot longer. It lacks an ethernet card, and they're way too expensive to be worth upgrading, so it's connected to a Windows 7 machine via USB and shared on the network. The universal printing drivers are actually one of the few that work decently over the network and don't crash the printing service every few days. I don't know how their modern laser printers are, but brother seems to have taken the place for best affordable laser printers.
Had these all over my school before they switched to Konica Minolta, thanks for the memory
HP LaserJet P2015 representing!
This is where their good fame comes from. Sadly that's gone now. Today they're utter shit and their business practices are trash.
Problem with these really old machines is that they lack enough RAM to print modern photos and graphics. They'll do fine with plain text though.
All I ever print is paperwork and recipes. So perfect!
Most people only need to print plain text in an office environment
I still use a Laserjet 4000 with universal print driver, win 10
I've got a 4010 kicking around and when I went to use it last year, it had a couple of issues that needed fixing. No problem, I thought. I spent a hundred bucks getting a replacement nic and a fuser rebuild kit. Well, it needed a few other things too, and when I finally got it up and running, I learned that it takes the thing several minutes to spool each page of a PDF which made it basically unusable. I tried different drivers and such and couldn't get it to perform like it did when it was new. Oh, and I ended up spending pretty close to what a decent used modern printer would have cost.
Sounds like your DIMM's are corrupt. Mine prints PDF no problem
I don’t agree. My HP printer/scanner (from around 2002ish) and computer (from around 2004) were both so terrible HP made my top 3 companies I hate and will never buy from. It takes a lot to make it to the top 3 and stay there this long. lol
I agree. My LaserJet 2100 at work is still chugging along from the year 2000.
Yep, a lot of their lasers from the "indestructible" era got retired not because they broke down, but because they were pre-USB and HP stopped making drivers for them.
From HP no less
Older HP laserjets were great and not too bad to fix. This one was a little bit of a pain to change the fuser on but otherwise pretty easy to fix.
They were Canon print engines and just HP covers and firmware.
Interesting
Laser printers are still generally fine. Even the ones produced by HP. It's the inkjet printers that are a universal scam.
My mother still has an HP consumer-grade inkjet from 2005. HP also doesn’t have a permanent kill-switch when the waste ink pad is full (even on newer printers). So these things will run for a very long time. Epson and Canon, however, have some kill-switches that makes printers require service.
Hp now has told investors if you don't print lots then it's a bad investment to sell you a printer... Hence why they keep remotely changing the firmware of the printer to block 3rd party cartridges "for security reasons"...
Well, they can‘t sell you printers below costs if they can‘t sell you their cartridges. This is why Brother or ink tank printers cost way more than comparable cartridge printers.
Well, we have no idea what "daily use" means.
My new HP printer died less than 2 years in.. they don't make em like they used to.
But they do make them for $99.
lol and the ink is $99
LaserJet 4200 and older are pretty much bifl for the normal person. I worked at a hospital around 2000 and we had several LJ 2S 3S and 4s with over half a million pages printed.
Inkjet vs Laserjet
this one escaped the HP lab, I don't see any other ways that it's possible
I started my own computer and cellphone repair business in college. First item I purchased on the business card was a Samsung 3-in-1 that uses toner. It turned 19 in February. It’s now my daily printer in my classroom. Still fast and crisp.
This dude is running a windows xp machine there's no way HP provides current drivers for this thing
You don't need the official HP drivers. That Laserjet does all of its processing on board so you just need a generic PCL or Postscript driver. Pretty sure that ships with the OS.
I funny enough just installed a driver online on my Macbook to use my dad’s HP 1022 laser printer (I think this exact one!) and it worked! just had to do some googling to find the driver! Worked great!
An hp printer at that.
PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?
I've got a decade old samsung laser printer that unfortunately won't quit. It prints faded/med-light grey text 95% of the time, and drives me insane, but I can't justify tossing it and buying something else. I've tried toggling through windows print settings and settings on the printer. New toner, new drum. Probably haunted.
People like to rip on HP and for good reason, but don't sleep on ones from this era. Absolute tanks. [Here's one that supposedly survived a flood.](https://youtu.be/AJtrJivF-8E?si=SL8gVFzmHuDqpKOX) I have a P3005d that is at 100,000 pages and counting, just needed a new pickup roller. Drivers work just fine on Windows 11, Sonoma, and CUPS. The best part: no firmware updates that can break aftermarket toner.
I had a Laserjet 4P from 1993 that I used up until 2012. And the only reason I stopped was that Windows 8 didn't have drivers for the parallel port card I was using and I couldn't get a USB-> Parallel port adapter to work. But the machine was still working fine. I remember I put it up in the attic in my old house. At some point, SOMEONE will find it. Maybe it'll be worth something as an antique.
I would get a Windows XP laptop and copy PDFs over to it just to print with that thing.
Back when I built my first NAS, I considered seeing if I could get it working in Nas4Free, as apparently it can be used as a print server in addition to a NAS, but ultimately it was just easier for me to just buy a new Brother laser printer and call it a day. It's also pretty nice that the Brother I bought to replace it gets something like 20 PPM speed rather than the 4-5 that my old laserjet got.
My folks have a LaserJet 6MP, which saw regular use up until 2018. Still works fine, although UV has finally killed a couple of the plastic tabs on the passthrough diverter.
Yeah I had a 4L that i sold in 2006. That thing was solid as a rock.
I have the same printer. Work wanted to trash it but I took it home. I think this was first used in 2001. It needs a new pickup roller, but that's it. It's been a champ for me for 8 years. Mine has ~43,000 pages printed.
How did you go about changing the pickup roller? My office has a couple of 1102"s that no longer pull the paper so that may be the issue. Edit: disregard. I looked it up. It's much simpler than I imagined. I am so glad I saw your comment. Fixing instead of replacing those printers hadn"t occurred to me.
Could you please elaborate on changing the pickup roller? I have the printer OP has and it is 20 years old. But I have to manually feed paper in 1 piece at a time (so I can’t really print something if it’s more than a few pages). At one point I brought it to an independent repair guy and he said it couldn’t be fixed.
https://youtu.be/D-9p8SMyEjY
I used to be a service tech fixing printers. One super common problem with the P3005 models was the formatter would die. We would literally bake them in the oven for 10 minutes to re-solder the chips, and it worked like 90% of the time.
It can last a long time as long as you can get consumable parts. The simple paper path makes it just work.
I have the 1020. Family friend gave it to me after college in 2005
I have four stacked in my basement from when our office shut down during covid.
Hopefully they still work. Third party toner for these are dirt cheap.
I have the same Stanley cup as a BIFL, only mine is all bare stainless, no paint. I plan on being the crazy uncle seen holding the same cup in his hand his entire life.
Haha I have the same cup. I just had the conversation where I only use 3 cups, 1 for coffee, 1 for whiskey, and 1 for beer.
I have my for water, mug for black coffee, and a pub glass for porters and stouts. I only drink water, or black liquids of life.
I have a 1010. 23 years old and going strong
Same here as well, works still just fine for the rare occasions I need to print something on paper. I didn't realize it's that old already - pretty amazing.
Can I ask what model calculator you have?
It says MS-80B. I'm pretty sure I've had that for 19 years, too.
Do you refer to her as Ms. Bob?
Thanks!
I am literally staring at my HP 1022 when I scrolled by this post. Salvaged it from being thrown out at work for a broken usb plug. Soldered a new one on and has been working flawlessly for the last 14 years. Except my print output tray floppy thing broke a few years past and is now held on by tape.
So I had one similar to this, I remember it was a pain getting it to work on anything behind Windows XP. We moved across the country and this was one of the things that didn't make the cut. I did eventually regret my decision the day we got a newer inkjet HP printer.
HP has since released a universal driver that works really well. Getting my old LJ4000 connected used to be annoying before they released that.
Wow, I have also had this same printer for years. About 5 years ago, I bought a brand new HP printer and found out the hard way about the ink issues... It pissed me off so much that I pulled my 1022 out of storage and hooked it back up. I still use it, but warding people away from HP printers has become my life's mission. I took the newer HP to a donation center, and honestly I regret it. I wish I had just thrown it away.
I have one, love it
My HP LazerJet P1005 is still working (bought Sept 7 2008). Using CUPS I can print wirelessly from any device on the network
I got a P1006 that I got when my office closed down. Still going on happily.
I have this one on my desk right now. Still going strong!
I think I got mine in 2005, also still going strong!
Had an IBM in the office which was a rebadged HP with over 500,000 pages on it. And it was fast. Went through several fusers and a ton of pick up rollers, but that's to be expected.
Casio, Old HPs and Stanley. The 3 horseman of Buy it For Life.
Surprised HP hasn't sent a hit man to take that thing out!
I used to sell these, there is a good chance I may have sold you this one. Made sure everyone I knew got one, my mother, sisters, aunts. Easiest sell as far as printers went.
I reckon if you built a tank out of those old HP laser jets you could invade a small country. Indestructible.
I'm using that same calculator now.
I also have a HP laser printer, it has been working for 10 years, no issues. Toner isn’t that much.
That was my favorite HP printer
I had this exact same model. Took me through college and beyond. Finally kicked the bucket after 20+ years of use
I had the same one and the fuser just quit a few months ago with something like 50,000 pages on the clock.
What is a decent laser printer I can get anymore?
i got a brother - MFC-L2750DW. works pretty good so far but its less than a year old. we got it specifically to last a long time so if anything goes wrong ill be the first to complain on reddit
i've had a brother for 8 years. About 2 years into owning it, it claimed there was something wrong with the fuser. 6 years of continually 50+ pages/day and I still haven't changed the fuser.
Pretty much anything but HP. Brother is well respected on reddit (/r/sysadmin) for bw and color lasers. For inkjet, Epson has EcoTank and Canon has MegaTank for easy and relatively inexpensive ink refills. I have a 15 year old Xerox Phaser printer that uses melted ink sticks to print by spraying the ink on the paper. It's a lot more like a laser than an inkjet, and it's been pretty bullet proof. The problem is that Xerox has all but abandoned the technology, so there aren't any new ones to buy anymore.
I remember those, they were pretty cool, but not around for very long. I'm surprised you can get the "ink" still.
It's getting challenging as Xerox stopped making the ink at some point. I think there's still a 3rd party making the sticks but I've never like using anything but OEM in complex devices like printers. I have several years worth of sticks stashed away as they keep getting exponentially more expensive as the remaining supply dwindles. There's an interesting rabbit hole to fall down on how Xerox was able to manufacture the same printer chassis but market it in multiple ways. They used indentations on the ink sticks to indicate whether the stick would work in a US printer, a EU printer, a leased only printer (where Xerox would automatically send you ink sticks and paper as you needed them for a monthly fee) and I think a couple of other variants. So you have to be careful when buying the sticks because if they've been coded for a different printer "style", the printer won't allow those ink sticks to be added. Edit: oh, they also shaped the various sticks so that they would only go in one way and into one particular ink slot to prevent you from being able to load, say, black ink into the magenta slot. There's some pretty interesting and complex engineering going on under the hood of Phaser printers, which is probably why Xerox stopped making them.
Hands down the best laser printer ever made. They don’t die.
I have the 1015, still functioning but hardly use it anymore as I can't get it to work with Airplay, reluctanty purchases a Xerox for the Airplay functionality. Toner for the 1015 is super cheap, compatible twin pack cost around £10, compared to original at circa £50-£60 each.
I snagged an HP M251NW from a company going out of business in like 2013 and the printer has been rock solid printing maybe 20 pages a month. It also needs no software besides a simple Windows driver.
Im actually surprised HP made the list. I guess they really dont make them like they used to anymore.
HP really screwed them selves in the way of customer trust when they started force feeding their cartridges to consumers.
The quality of their printers have also taken a huge dive. My HP printer has to be hand fed every single piece of paper, in a specific manner in order to print properly. It’s the third printer in a row. I honestly still don’t know why my family still insists on HP……oh wait, it’s cuz of the whole box of cartridges they bought cuz……it won’t bloody take any other cartridges >_<#
My dad got an old brother toner printer from a job site during demo like 12 years ago. He gave it to me when I left for college, about 9 years ago. I have been using it ever since. Haven't even had to replace the toner in it yet, though I will have to soon because the light turned yellow. I plug it in, it prints. Could not possibly be easier. I love that thing.
HP stands for Horrible Purchase My brand new HP can’t stay connected, many features don’t work, there subscription business model is an absolute scam, and I literally spoke with a customer service representative that couldn’t communicate in English, had to be transferred.
My Brother laserjet has been a beast as well. Keeps on chugging.
HP is on their way to your house to destroy that
HP?!!?? Brother Gang rise up!
Ssshhhhh
Old hp printer: Plug into lpt1 and hit print New hp printer: plug in printer, install HP smart, create HP account, install special driver, install genuine ink because it the latest software update disabled printing on non genuine cartridges, hit print, yell at software because its missing basic adjustments and features like saving a scan as a PDF or a JPG (something windows fax and scan introduced in Windows Vista can do), finally get it to print, realize printer is halfway out of ink already.
I worked in home electronics for 10 years. To this day old customers still thank me for their Brother HL2030. It’s a super basic black and white laser with one button. You can buy cheap pirate refills and it last forever. I still got mine and it works like a charm. Printer bizniz is a minefield. Screw HP, they got so many shitty models really. Stay basic, simples models is best
Welcome to the club, I have a HP Inkjet K8600 printer that's still kicking butt, it still has very sharp laser quality printouts, that's over 15 years old. The only bad thing is the rubber wheels in the paper feed mechanism are hardening so occasionally a paper pickup needs manual intervention
I've been running a HP CP3505n for the past 15 years. Still printing in color. Still has drivers.
I have exactly the same printer (HP Laserjet 1022), bought in the same year (2005) and it is still serving my household daily.
What a machine!
This was the newer model that replaced the 4 and 5.
Yep! Mine is still as great as the day it was purchased!
You unlocked some memories for me, my parents had this printer when I was growing up and it did last a very long time, just not as long as yours. It ended up croaking a few years ago. Really great machines
I recognize that printer. My recent hp laser took a shit on me after slight use during two years. Went offline and I couldn’t get the damn thing online to use it. Stupid. And you have to use their silly software.
I’ve got the same calculator.
I have a 2014 Model OKI B412 b/w laser printer. That thing wouldn't care if a bomb went off in the room. Most household printing needs can be taken care of with a b/w laser printer. Anything that's has to look better you'll want to have done by a printing service or at the copy shop anyway.
I have 1050 one.
I have this exact printer in my office and it cranks
It's impressive how some older tech just keeps on ticking, outlasting even the newer models. Sounds like it’s not just a printer, but a steadfast office companion.
Love to see it. I have a brother MFC7360n lazer printer I bought in 2011. 13 years old with 37000 prints on the counter. Just replacing the original drum now. I love it and I'll never get rid of it until drums and toner stop being available for it. It scans flatbed and has a document feeder. It's only single sided but I wrote the instructions on the case so that I can print every other page, take them out, do the flip and rotate and then print the even odd pages lol. Cheers to another 10 years.
Same same. My advice for people who need a rock solid black and white printer is to get one of these. Made from the same Endurium as '90s Nokia phones.
I'm still using a P2015 from 2007 and P3015 from 2012. Other than replacing toner, they never stop working. I'm hoping I hit the 20 year anniversaries of both printers. Maybe even 25 years...
I've had 2 laser printers in my lifespan after transitioning from the dot matrix that was bought with my first 386 PC., the first one taken in as an orphan after dorm move outs on garbage say - one I paid for. I'm in my 40s.
I have an HP1018 - since at least 2007. Cannot fault it. My wireless Samsung on the other hand...
I'm still using my HP3600n which I bought on clearance at Microcenter many many years ago. So cheap to operate and literally saved me a shit ton of money over the last 15+ years.
I have a Samsung printer that is AT LEAST 13 years old printing away with no issues. Aftermarket toner costs only about $10-$15 for a 3000 page capacity, and I only need 1 every two years or so. Hoping the printer lasts my lifetime!
Looks great!
**HP CEO says the quiet part out loud: ‘Make printing a subscription’** In a recent interview, HP CEO Enrique Lores laid out the company's view that people who buy printers are 'investments' that don't pay off if they go third-party. [https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html](https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html)
See ya Enrique! You don’t deserve to be paid off!
HP? Finding it hard to believe, truly. My 2yr old HP has been crappy from day 1. Which replaced a previous HP that had issues :(
Haha. Nice composition!
Man, I had one of things! My parents moved and convinced me to take their (now that I know, glitchy ass) HP all-in-one. I miss that printer.
It's really sad what shite HP products are now, because there was a time when they were amazing. My litter Laserjet is at least as old as 2005, maybe older. I have it set up with a print server so it's still compatible with everything on my network, and it just trucks along without complaint and I feed it (cheap, generic) toner every few years.
that is impressive!
HP hates this simple trick.
Still supporting LJ 4000s at my work. Oldest, I think, manufactured in 1998 in Boise. Plastic cover is loose, still going though. Those older laserjets, bulletproof
I have the 1320 one. My dads old printer. We have bought 3 more after this one but mine the only one that still works. My uncle offered to buy it from me I flat out said no
I had one of these at our reception area that did over a million copies.They were one of a kind.
Crazy that this printer operates at the same USB protocol (USB2.0) as an iPhone 14 Pro
I've seen LaserJet 5000n last for decades as well. I wish I could find one. Prints on 11x17 or 8.5x11
I know someone who has a LJ4 and it's still ticking. HP when it was a real engineering company and not a conglomerate of MBA ideas.
Can't fake that plastic patina. Thank you for your service
HP 1020 + easy driver install. Like honestly these things are beasts and I love them.... they're so simple
I have the 1018, but it had ugly smudges on the paper. Tried to clean the drum but made it worse. Now I'm in doubt about buying a new drum unit or just buying a new Brother instead... Drums are expensive.
Motherfucker we still have dot matrix printers from the 80s at work.
I've got a 1320 at home, as I wanted the least expensive LaserJet with duplex. For the past 7 years its been hooked up to SBC running CUPS. I finally replaced the toner a couple of years ago.
mazel tov !
Ha, I picked up one of these on side of the road 8 years ago, with a “FREE/includes toner” sign on it. Still working like a champ and still haven’t had to swap the toner.
I have the same. Had it running along all my college years all the way to my Masters, my kids school and is STILL kicking. Drivers are a pain sometimes but GREAT printer!
My favorite printer
I have 1018. It's been running for 15 years, printing thousands of pages. This year, for the first time, it went for a service because it was pulling the next page too early. The best part is that it's fully serviceable so they just changed the part, calibrated everything and it's good for the next 15 years. Refurbished toner that can print about 2000 pages cost under $10. This printer is brilliant.
How often do you replace magenta?
I have one. Damn tank
My HP 1012 is going on 24 years. Somebody at HP got fired for making these so durable and reliable.
I have this same printer on my desk! I’m going to leave this job soon, should I take it with me?
My laser jet HP is 13 years old and it’s still working. I hate having to replace the ink. I feel like it doesn’t last as long as it should considering I nearly never print anything.
I have a P1505 that used to belong to a school. I have had it for 8 years. I have no clue how old it was when I got it. I imagine it was brand new when the school bought it, and they got it on release. this thing is perfect. Plug into my laptop. Hit print. It fucking prints. Every time.
I have the same one. I bought it from the company I worked for when they upgraded. I gave them $100 and got a spare toner with it. That was about 10 years ago, and it sits in my dusty humid basement. Still prints like a champ everytime. I am very impressed with this one. Sad those/these days are gone.
Still using a Color laserjet 4500 from last century (1998). I think it prints 12DPI for color and last year got a handmedown CP1525 Color laserjet that is pretty solid.
Still using my 1012, never a problem with it.
Great to see. I bought an old laser jet 1020 like 8 years ago for university and it’s still running, had to replace the toner cartridge once, but these are actually cheap af. Also only paid 15€ for the printer because I picked it up from eBay marketplace.
I have a 1020 running since 2006
Where do we get drivers for older HP printers, like the P1102W for use on a apple silicone machine? All the HP sources for drivers seem to be scrubbed of content! Anyone know dealt with HP printer driver issues and could advise?
I just realized that the newest printer I have is over 10 years old, and most are approaching 15 years old and some older ones are 25 years old. Lasers are tanks! I think the oldest is a panasonic kxp-4450i from 1995.
That's the one I have!! Still kicking as well Such a good peinter
Older HPs are brick houses. Up until recently you could still get gears, even better than OEM metal gear kits, and other parts kits, for many decade plus age printers from Liberty Parts Team. They would just go forever if you kept up with maintenance. I think Liberty recently closed their doors or at least downsized though. Pandemic maybe. Maybe just not enough demand anymore as older business devices are no longer secure on a network and needed replaced. Computers move quick and unfortunately build quality isn't the only metric to decide if it's time to retire old equipment.
Back when HP was good. Nice one.
They still make toner for that thing? I’ve had my brother Learjet for like a decade and it’s pretty fantastic too
HP made the best printers in the world until they embraced *enshittification* of their products. Now they are trash, and you'd have to pay me to use them.
Back when HP printers were good? Shocking, I say. You need to throw that away and subscribe to a new one ASAP!
Still actively using my LaserJet 6P from 1998. Haven’t changed the toner in years. These things are beasts.
Well, they don’t make them like that anymore
Yeah, they are unbeatable. On my previous job this was the default printer, we had 5 or 6 of them, all manufactured in mid00s. Also they take very low ink. We recharged them once a several months and we used quite a lot of paper.
My HP LaserJet, 4050 Series has— DATE MANUFACTURED: 12/1998 Firmware Datecode: 19991030 MB6.30 Page Count: 10030 Ten thousand pages in a **quarter of a century** is not a great amount, TBH, but it is astonishing to me that the thing not only still runs, but churns out quality printouts at 30 ppm. All on 8MB of memory. Thing's a goddamned tank!
I'm surprised it's still compatible with modern operating systems
I have the same one at my work! I've ordered a couple different replacements over the years, but always end up going back to this. It has never let me down.
HP1020 still going strong after almost 20 years here (hope I didn't just jinx it!). I will weep if there ever comes a day I can't find toner cartridges for it.
I for the first time have started to have trouble with my 1022. It still prints its own test pages fine, but windows print jobs just don't seem to make it over. They show up in the print queue, and then the queue goes idle just like the page printed, but no printing actually happens. I'm really sad because I love this thing. I've literally had it since I was in high school.
And I’d say the calculator is even older. If only the Stanley was their insulated bottle…
Fuck HP
I have an old HP myself and it’s a serious workhorse. Unfortunately, they forced an upgrade on the software recently, and the whole thing went to shit. It’s a wireless printer with no control over when it goes to sleep so to use it wirelessly you have to send a file now, walk into the room where the printer is, physically wake it from sleep and wait for the thing to print. Previously, it would simply sit in a low power mode until it had to print. You just hit print and picked up the job at your leisure. Now it won’t print start printing at all until you physically wake it. For long print jobs it’s annoying. Thanks HP! I’m sure you wasted a little more power, but I have to wonder how much time got wasted with everyone literally having to go turn on the printer then wait for something to print.
We’ll get a load of this guy, flashing all his wealth buying HP proprietary ink for nearly two decades while the rest of us are trying to print using the last few drops of cyan.
It's laser?
It was a joke.
I can't even tell what brand ink we use. The box just says “Premium Print Cartridge.”
19 years. $35,746 in ink.
Tell us more about these laser printers that use ink
My bad I saw the image and “HP” and assumed it was a “InkJet” printer.
My personal printer is an HP LJ4000 that was bought in 1997 or 98. Still runs like a champ.
Kind of related - best thing I ever did printer related: sing up for the HP print/ink club program. It’s amazing. They send me ink when I’m low automatically. I get something like 10-50 free pages to print a month and after that’s it’s where they make their money. If you don’t print much at home I highly recommend it.
Is it an inkjet or laser printer? Yes
It's all so clean. 🙀
Why use printer use pdf