Since the beginning of my computing era, I have had various printers.
In the beginning (early to mid-late 90's) I used a dot matrix printer, a 9 dot Star LC-20. It was very reliable, however equally noisy and slow.
Having one, even standing next to a retro rig, would take away all pleasure, just by looking at it. Brrr.., nevermore!
Ink jet printers were next step. They were much quieter, image quality was really good, they did print colour, but there were problems with clogged nozzles if I did print not often enough (especially on colour cartridges), or sometimes ink spilled inside (during paper jam for example), and it was a problem to clean it thoroughly. I have had a different models from HP and Lexmark, and all suffered (to more or less degree) all above problems.
Finally lasers had arrived. It is not important if you print a two pages per month, or one hundred a day. You turn them on, and they work. It is not a problem to find a model with LPT connector, or built-in print-server (I think even ancient HP LJ4P has a Ethernet option).
Go and get a laser printer 😎