Hello fellow experts and printer users! I came here to seek for quite specific advice.
I have my small art project that focuses on old historic pictures. recently I’ve started trying to make prints and stickers out of them.
I’ve started really minimal as I have little resources and also I’m kinda sustainability nerd.
so I tried to print on my family’s 20-years-old HP Laserjet 1010 which surprisingly still worked after all this years and I kinda enjoyed the grain that it gives — as it feels like an old newspaper print or something. (you can see an example above which I also coloured by hand later)
Unfortunately HP started acting out lately — chewing the paper, smudging an ink and giving me hard time in general. Changing the cartridge didn’t help much, and probably fixing it is not worth it eather and it would probably cost half of it price.
So I’ve been trying to find an upgraded version of what I’ve had. preferably something really similar in terms of grain texture (or something that gives film photo with better quality), if it’s even exist. I’m not looking for perfect hd pictures, more like analog, risographic or newspaper type of prints.
I know that it will probably be a risky search of some kind of magical relict which is also 15-20 years old and still work well, but I love the challenge lol
I will appreciate any kind of recommendation!

looking for the old laser printer with analog vibe