Canon Laser Printers - 1990
"...for as LITTLE" -- allow me to repeat that word -- "LITTLE.....as THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!"
This Australian ad for Canon laser printers just blows my mind! And mind you, this is 3000 Australian dollars in 1990. Who knows how much this would be in today's money!? Furthermore, I believe this is the ENTRY-LEVEL price being stated, so I can't even begin to fathom how much more it could possibly cost. Probably had to put a second mortgage on your house for top-of-the-line, I guess.
The upshot of the exorbitant price would be an exceptionally high degree of quality. I would imagine that, as long you've been constantly refilling the toner cartridge, it would still work today (yes, even after 20+ years of continual use, without so much as a breakdown) although I could be wrong.
Remember, of course, that dot matrix printing was still very much the norm then and that laser was a luxury few could afford, so...
