We dusted off an old, wired, B&W low res Cannon laser printer last year. It's our utility printer for internal docs or stuff you'd prefer to review on paper. It feels like an old reliable car. I think we're still using the same toner from last year's rebirth.
I bet there are a ton of these old printers sitting in corners shadowed by some glitzy full color, wifi, Internet enabled new hotness printer. It's probably a smart move to grab one of these old workhorses off Craigslist if you just need to print plain docs.
Of course after a little while the customers going to notice a problem. So then you can sell them a fix (patched firmware) or a new printer. Play it right and you get to run the same scam again then ...
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/laser/39806
Proud owner of a Brother laser printer here. My guess is that this is how they can afford to sell the printers for so cheap (usually underselling HP).