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Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers (www.which.co.uk)
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[โ€“] Shayeta@feddit.org 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wrong, old printers are the only ones that were built to last and are easier to maintain.

[โ€“] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah. I got a free HP Laserjet 4 a few years back. 4 pages per minute, smelly (ozone, I think), curled pages like crazy, was fucking huge, no duplex or networking. Actually, if I remember correctly it was parallel only, no USB. Completely repairable though.

Now, for my B/W printing (I also have a Brother color laser, and an Epson A3 inkjet because reasons) I have a tiny Brother laser, that prints something like 16 PPM, duplex, with dirt cheap compatible cartridges. Go ahead and get a LJ4.

I imagine that if you have some obscure specialized printer this may be a problem, though.