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Recommend a printer for very infrequent use

I've had it with the wife's inkjet printer. We rarely print, she will print our recipes every so often, I print once a year, tax forms. Guess what time of year it is?

I dragged out old reliable. A HP 4000 I bought used from the local tech college. It has a sticker on it that a maintenance kit was installed in 2005 at 186,000, and it is flashing again that it needs another kit, along with the toner being just about empty. It took me way too long to find the right driver for it, HP's site is acting up, like it always is, and I couldn't find a page with a PCL5 universal print driver. Ended up downloading it from a shady site, I've probably compromised my laptop.

Looking for a printer that can sit and sit and sit, collect dust, and then print at a moment's notice. WiFi would be ideal, so I don't have to drag it up from the basement to plug it into the router like the old 4000. Blazing 10mb connection. Just above the 10bt connection is a coax connection. Coax!

Thinking of picking up another used HP off CL or FBM. Tell me why I'm wrong.
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