&gt; I&#x27;m not even sure that printers where ever that great. Printers seems like devices that sort of peaked 40 years ago. Since then they have gradually decreased in quality. Printing 1000+ pages a day seems to be a little much to ask from many printers, they simply wear out to quickly. The whole process of looping paper around inside something that fits on a desk (sort of), combined with cheap plastic parts is a receipt for disaster.<p>If you get an old LaserJet they&#x27;re industrial beasts.  But no-one wants to pay money for a printer, so we end up with two markets: the very expensive, but good, professional printers, and the domestic horrible printers.<p>If you&#x27;re printing 2 reams a day you can afford to invest in a decent printer.<p>&gt; Why are there even multiple trays, we only ever need to print on standard A4 paper?<p>You only need that.  A bunch of offices need to print on A4, and C5 envelopes, and sometimes A5 and sometimes on labels.