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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (14696)	1/13/2006 8:21:05 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 14778

I agree with you in regard to printing non-color pages using a laser. WAY cheaper than inkjets, and you can buy a laser printer these days for $99 bucks, so it can become a 'disposable' ala an inkjet printer. My wife does lots of printing, the vast bulk of it on a laser, and uses her inkjet only when necessary for charting, etc. It would be interesting to read a comparison of inkjet/color laser costs, I don't recall seeing such a test in any of the major PC rags. I'm curious because while color laser prices have really come down (some below $500 bucks now), some of them need 3-4 replacement cartridges, which can add up to a couple hundred bucks for the lot. Best regards, John

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (14696)	1/16/2006 1:53:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Re: "Now if you really want to get me going, lets talk about the chips that are put into ink cartridges to turn off the ink when the cartridge gets low. " I certainly agree that this practice deserves a rant. Perhaps not quite as bad but something I would consider a design fault is when color printers disable printing when one color runs out. You might have black, cyan, magenta, and yellow. Say blue runs out. Now you can't even print black text. Tim