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The 4P is a total tank of a printer and very likely will outlive you if maintained well. Techbros love to tell people that they'll be better served by a modern printer with low-power standby but the 4P is actually the first printer to be equipped with a modern low-power standby feature, and as you've said is far more serviceable. Look for a cheap ram upgrade if you haven't already, you can sometimes find a kit that will max out printers of this vintage for $10-15. It likely won't help with day-to-day usage but if you ever have to print a large or complex job, it'll help a ton and it's not like it hurts to have.
I've heard about the RAM thing and looked around at kits a bit, but never quite understood the benefit so I haven't picked one up yet. Probably will eventually. I need to get better about maintaining it. rn I really have to crank the density settings to get dark blacks at all, probably something is failing slowly. But like I said it gets very rarely used. And yes! the "economode" lol. I just keep it fully powered off tbh but I don't print much. I didn't know this was the first model to have it, but I knew this was a very early home consumer oriented laser printer. My parents got it when one of them was in college in a very very paperwork-intensive program
I love having old, sturdy appliances rather than always buying a new piece of crap that will absolutely shit out in a year or two.