I loved those old boxes of continuous feed perforated paper. Eventually they came out with something called laser edge, so you could tear off the perforations cleanly. I used to buy the big boxes at Costco for something like $10.00. Feed your printer a couple of times a year, and print to your hearts content. Let the printed sheets fall to the floor, and go eat lunch. Everything stayed in order. And I would ink my own ribbon when it started to print faint. Buy a bottle of ink for $3.00, and your cartridge/ribbon lasted for years. Today ink costs $40/month. The ink is more expensive than the printer. It's ink for goodness sake. It's an incidental like paper clips. You shouldn't have to take out a loan to buy ink.
