Ugh; WinPrinters. They sucked back then, they suck now, they’ll suck for all of eternity.
PCL can do some hilarious tricks (the infamous display prank to change the display on the printer to say… whatever you want is one of them). Postscript can also do some fun things; google “postscript processing speed test” for an outstanding example of what plain, version 1.0 postscript can do with a printer’s rendering engine.
I have a soft spot in my toner-blackened, shriveled heart for the laserjet 4 series (4/4+) and to a lesser extent, the 4000 series. robust, easy to maintain, and with proper care and feeding the engines will easily give you several million pages before a major overhaul.
