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Yeah, there is that downside.
I just bought an ancient enterprise color printer from auction for a song. It came with an additional full set of unopened toner, all for less than half the cost of the toner.
The upside is that I will have a color printer I can manage and use for printing books.
The fact that it's a laser printer certainly redeems you! I'm dumb and bought a decent Canon printer several years ago (do they still make them?), and have used it a few times since then. I haven't checked recently, but am 100% certain all the cartridges are dried up. If I ever wanted to use it again, I'd have to blow out all the dust from it, clean the nozzles, buy more of all the colors (even if I'm printing b&w), and align the printing again. So much better to just go to a print shop the few rare times I'll need it. I don't want to make assumptions, but I bet that's the case for most people...
If you are lucky, you may be able to reclaim the ink with rubbing alcohol, but I always spent forever on that and rarely had good results.
https://www.wikihow.com/Clean-Ink-Cartridges
If that doesn't work, I'm a fan of blotting the cartridge on an alcohol-soaked paper towel and then dragging the cart along a piece of paper to scrub the nozzle.
I have gotten ink working that way, personally and professionally.