I guess I lucked out with printers; my basic B&W laser predates Windows 2000 let alone XP and still works with everything(*); one of the first models with USB, and speaks both PCL and (emulated) Postscript.

Not bad for $300 almost 15 years ago. Lexmark no longer makes the toner for it, but easy to get from 3rd parties, and other than double-feeding sheets of paper

(* and I include things way more obscure than typical desktop OSes, although to print from OpenVMS a few years ago I had to save the postscript to a file, ftp it to a different machine, and then send that to the raw USB port.)

Not that it's plug-and-play with Windows XP/7/8, but it's pretty easy to pick a compatible driver out of the list.