My new printer printed the user manual on its own as soon as I got it up and running

For this reason alone I think laser printers are the way to go. Inkjets suck and I hate them. People bring inkjets in all the time looking to get some random ass problem with them fixed and I always tell them it's not worth screwing with. These pieces of shit are rarely designed to be taken apart, and even if you do get them all apart it's unlikely you will even be able to find parts for it. There are also many smaller components that can easily get lost or damaged while trying to dismantle them (I'm looking at you, springs and encoder strips, fuck you). And on the off chance that you somehow DO find parts it will likely be far more cost effective to just replace the printer entirely than try to get the parts and install them.

The other problem with inkjets is if you don't use the fucking thing for 45 and a half days it suddenly sucks at printing. The print head gets all nasty and gross and the ink does not flow out the way it's supposed to. If you don't print at least one thing on them every month they will eventually not print right, no matter how many times you put it through the built in cleaning process. I've even gone so far as to completely dismantle inkjets suffering from this problem and manually clean the print head assembly by forcing cleaning solution through it with a bunch of tubes and syringes. They still won't fricking print right.

Laser printers on the other hand? TBH I think these things are absolute dreams. Some of them really suck to work on, but they are at least DESIGNED to be taken apart without breaking anything or losing a bunch of small parts. I have yet to see a single laser printer I can not dismantle to remove an entire component, such as the duplexer or fuser. Additionally, laser printers can sit unused for months and when you finally tell it to shit out a paper it just works. Worst case scenario you might have to take the toner cartridge out and give it a good shake. And the increased upfront cost of laser printers generally makes them cost-effective to repair. The last laser printer I worked on was some huge $1,600 behemoth. The most expensive component that I found for it was the fuser, which was about $350. That is well worth repairing. Inkjets? Not even worth it.

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