>>http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/19/0224257
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>>Watch out for those consumables costs if you buy an inkjet printer for Christmas ...
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>...or for printing.
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>I've retired one HP because it has got the idea that it needs to test itself about fifty times each night (printing as many test pages as it had paper). Other than that, it printed fine after five years of moderate use. After the laptop rebate scam i swore I won't buy anything from HP for at least a few years - so the printer that replaced it is a Brother (with a scanner that I actually didn't want, but came handy for the price :) with separate ink cartridges, plus a pack of spares which cost about half of what one pack for HP would have cost... and I somehow think this thing uses less ink. We'll see how long will the initial pack of inks last.

What model of Brother printer do you have? I have a networkable model (don't remember the model # right off) but the networking was horrible. I bought a USB cable and it seemed to work fine with that, but the main purpose of me buying it was to network it with our wireless devices.