I need to be able to hold some documents in my hands and lean back in my chair to really enjoy reading them. To read the same things online, of course, requires that we lean forward to peer at the screen. (I think they've even alluded to this duality on an episode of CSI before, too.) There was a time when I printed out *everything* and filed it away *for later*, but that became too cumbersome. Now, I just save the webpage to my Favorites folder (which I make sure to save on a flash drive on a regular basis) and have access to whatever I need for a later date. Owing in part to my system of folders and subfolders (and subsbubfolders) in my Favorites folder, I have links to whatever articles I am currently using as reference for Xombytes, as well as items of interest to use in future -bytes. For what you're printing, you are definitely going the right route to buy your toner and film. The best advice I could give you in terms of *cheap* paper is to go to stores, like Staples, and buy a case at a time of the store brand paper. Sometimes, but not often, you can get name-brand paper by the case on sale. Plus, having a whole case of paper means fewer trips to buy single reams of paper. "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it doth prosper, none dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington, 1561-1612