I have just sprung for an HP 1010 - 12ppm at about $220 - and very pleased with it so far. It's a real entry level model - no parallel port input, only USB.
I might add that I looked at other makes (Lexmark (which I am told uses the same print engine as Samsung), Canon, and a couple of others) but went for the HP after talking to my cartridge refiller who pointed out that filling an HP cartridge was about 50 - 60% the cost of the others. And spares are pretty readily available too.
Only thing is - if an HP printer gives you trouble after the warranty has expired, it's worth trying to find an independent fixer - HP charge a fixed amount for fixing anything which is usually about 50% of buying a new one. And after a goodly number of pages, the sheet separator packs up.
My elderly HP 6L Laserjet is now in semi retirement - don't know how many pages it has printed, but I have been through somewhere in the region of twenty cartridges - and that's a l-o-t of pages!