If you start haunting your local thrift stores, there's a good chance you'll be able to pick up one in good nick for, like, 15 bucks or so.

Throw in a $12 aftermarket toner cartridge and you'll be ready to rock and roll.

I will say though, if you can test the printer at the thrift store, some brother printers have an issue where there's like a hammer on the side that is made out of a sticky cork substance, and when it breaks down over time, it will stick to the thing that it hammers on and not be able to print a second page.

To fix that, it's a very difficult and expensive process of using a screwdriver to remove three or four screws and then putting a piece of scotch tape over the cork pad so that it won't stick anymore.

I agree, I have had mine for years at this point. A monochrome wireless printer. Maybe print out 10 pages a year and still works great.

yup. even their color laser printers are good.