My HP LaserJet 4000 is maybe 15 years old now, possibly a bit older. This last computer upgrade, we had to do some jury-rigging (serial to parallel? parallel to serial? not sure, but there's a converter box in the back of it where the wires are plugged in), and have to play some games to get the kids' newer computers to print to it, but other than that it's still going strong. I can't imagine a printer that dies after only 1500 pages. I suspect that what will force us to get a new printer one of these days will be the inability to connect to it any more, not anything intrinsic to the printer itself.
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