Which laserjet were you having trouble with? I guess I've been lucky. I exclusively use laser printers in all of my homes because I've thrown away so many inkjets which clogged from non-use. Some of my laserjets only get used once a year but still perform. Same goes for some of the spare laserjets we have at the office. They'll sit in storage for ages and tossed into service when we need an extra printer and they'll run fine, even after sitting for 2+ years.

FWIW, I "fixed" the broken Brother HL-L6400 B&W laser by removing the duplexer tray and replacing the Brother toner cartridge with a $13 generic one. It won't print double-sided anymore and runs at 1/2 speed, BUT no paper jams, no creased pages. Time for the first page to come out is the same as before. ...and what other printer can print 8,000 pages for $13 of toner ($0.0016/page)? Would I buy one of these again? With $13 toner, probably. Pulling the duplexer didn't require any tools. We do have an HL-L6200DW in the office which so far hasn't acted up, despite reviews on Amazon showing it has similar issues. If it does, I'll be yanking its duplexer out as well.

We've also bought a ton of the Brother HL-L8630CDW printers and they've been absolutely solid. Trying to get them over the past few months has been difficult, but we finally replaced all of the older HPs. Bonus: They log all prints to .CSV files on the server. With that we're able to bill clients accordingly. These printers have already paid for themselves in the first year. When some clients are requesting 10,000+ pages in a single month be printed, the printers have become a profit center.

pseudoswede That Brother is a darn good printer. Pain to connect to WiFi on the panel, but once that's done it just works. I bought one for my parents and no matter what they do to it, the thing still runs.