Best answer IMO. You can get a refurbished Laserjet 5 on Ebay for around $150 + shipping that's anywhere from $10-50 depending on distance from you to the seller. You'll need to buy a toner cartridge but in home use one should last you for the next 3 years or so!

DO NOT get one of the newer ones. 4050, 4100, 4200, etc, you do not want. They're crap. We spent something like $13k/printer for HP 9000 series printers. Always having problems.

I went on Ebay and bought two of the last 'old' design printers (LJ8150DN). Not quite as fast but dead reliable and approximately $600/printer with shipping. These stated 32,000 pages when we bought 'em three years ago; we had to replace the fusers and get toner cartridges but otherwise they've been faultless and now have approximately 665,000 pages lifetime and are still going very strong. Older HP stuff is *awesome*. The oldest printer in continuous use I know of is at an office in DC. It's a Laserjet III that was installed when I was in college in 1991. Still cranking.