Color laser printer

It's not uncommon for Carolyn and me to "pool our holidays" to justify giving each other something that is really just a frivolous luxury that we both really want. Such was the case this year when we'd tried for the umpteenth time to get one of our two color inkjet printers to work. The problem is that we just don't use the inkjet printers enough so the cartridges always dry up before they run out. And we end up getting a dozen or so color printouts during the life of the cartridge. We've had such great results from our HP Laserjet 6P printer that we've been eying color Laserjets since they arrive on the scene. But as long as they cost $1,000's we couldn't see getting one.

Then just before Mothers Day a Costco flyer advertised a great sale on HP's new home & small office color Laserjet. They've come down in size and price to the point where we could afford both the space and the expense as long as we "pooled" enough of our holidays. I think this is at least Mothers and Fathers Day and it might include my birthday as well.

Installing it was a snap as it has both USB and network connections and it virtually installed itself. I was worried when it complained about the firewall it found but the firewall then asked if it was okay to let the printer through so I didn't have to find out how to disable or reconfigure the firewall. These machines really are beginning to have some smarts.

The only hitch in the installation was trying to configure it for our second computer which is still Windows 98. It just can't go back that far.