Don't think they were rare, then. Just a little on the expensive side maybe.
My step dad had a copy and shirt printing business. He had the first color lasers I ever saw. They were huge and expensive and usually little bitches when they didn't like the environment, they were placed in. They were also 2nd hand because he couldn't afford new hardware when he started out. All that happened like 15 years ago. Am I off by much?
It sounds like your talking about one of those large multifunction commercial type printers. I don't know when the smaller printers actually hit the shelves, but when I was shopping for a printer there weren't many color models. That was back in 2016.
I call them 'malfunction' printers. Too complex for their own good. Or very good for the dealers service dept.
Confession: I really don't, but that's how I like to imagine things.
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