> > This has come up for discussion before.  Further notes:
>
> > 1.  Replacement cartridges are VERY expensive.
>
> Oh, I don't know.  They (the crayon colorstix) appear to be about the same
> price as an inkjet cartridge (US$40).  I don't know how many pages you get
> from each colorstix.  Plus you get free black colorstix.
What am I doing wrong?  They charged me $79 per stick.  Yes you get free
black sticks, BUT one requires three different color sticks!
>
> > 2.  Keep it on all the time.  It uses cartridges 10 times faster
> > if not left on all the time.
> >     There is a technical reason for this I won't get into here.
>
> This is nice.  We used to leave our HP LJ 4500 on all the time also, but
it
> still took a *long* time to warm up after coming back from powersave mode.
> The Xerox printer warms up quite quickly compared to it.  Yes, but you use
up
your cartridges faster if for some reason you turn it off and then on.

Nick D.