HP has become more customer unfriendly. A friend has an HP laptop about 5 years old, and needs to repair it - bad fan. HP pulled down the service documents for laptops of that vintage off their website. Thanks a lot.
I buy Dell. They keep any support documents at their website basically...
Searching around I found an older Canon laserprinter model MF3010 is being sold for as low as $80 with toner cartridge. Just do a search on the model number. The user manual has a copyright date of 2013 so it's been in production for a decade. I don't know anything about it other than the...
I bought my Canon d1120 back in 2010 for $395, and it's still going strong. Equivalent models now being sold with full-up scan capabilities (Canon MF455dw) go for $280. The sheet feeder on the d1120 is failing now but I can still scan manually.
I just went over and checked at Amazon. It appears nobody makes a monochrome (black and white) ink jet printer anymore. All ink jets shown were for color printing.