Back in the late 90s I paid heaps for an Epson Stylus 500 printer.
It was great at first, but then started producing "banded" printouts.
I wasn't really surprised, because it didn't get much use. Eventually
it got so bad that it was unusable.
When I took it apart, I was stunned by how much massively expensive
ink the thing had pumped into the huge absorbent pad under the
mechanism in its unstoppable self-cleaning cycles. I vowed that I'd
never ever touch another Epson printer, or inkjets in general if I
could avoid them.
However a mate loaned me his old HP Deskjet 500 which was totally
reliable for years until I decided to upgrade.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a little HP Laserjet 1020 which is
perfect so far, for the small amount of invoice etc printing that I
do.

Bob