LaserJet Printer

I haven't christened the printer yet (probably should think of a good name before hooking it up to the PC), so forgive the plain title of tonight's weblog update. I went to Fry's Electronics in Fishers, Indiana today (a "slight" detour from my ultimate goal of Lafayette) to go purchase a laserjet printer. Reasons:

• I need a printer slightly because of the annoyance, the time lost on the road (10 minutes each way), the gas lost driving, etc. of going to Lynn every time I need to print something off, often things as simple as one page from Google Maps or two pages of study notes
  
• I need a printer greatly because of the reinstitution of my "printed-off doujins" policy. (For more details, ask? Awkward.)
  
• I recently learned that laserjet printers have much more expensive toner/ink cartridges than do inkjet printers, but that they last so much longer that within 1 year of fairly regular printing the home office user will have spent as much money on ink cartridges as he will have on his inkjet printer whereas he will have only spent 10% of his laserjet printer's cost in the form of toner replacements. Because of this knowledge, it seemed slightly beneficial to me to get a laserjet.
  
• For $150, I was able to get a $200 Hewlett-Packard black-only laserjet printer.
  
• For $300, I could have gotten the color one.
  
• But I don't need my own color printer because I rarely need to print in color and so I can still count on using Purdue's facilities for those rare times.
  
• And finally, I sort of did this as a $150 experiment: because my family has a Dell color inkjet printer and they go through black ink (alone) at roughly the rate of one cartridge every 3-4 weeks. It's very, very expensive and having to order replacements through Dell every month is driving my mom crazy. If this laserjet printer turns out to be pretty awesome, then I will encourage them to get the $300 color one. If it turns out to be a shitty dud, then it's a lesson learned at the expense of $150. I can still continue to print at Purdue, and they can keep doing what they're doing. Worst case scenario, thus, is nothing more than a maintaining of the status quo.

I've already used the names Kotoko (numerous times), Sumomo, and Freya for computers. I didn't really grow attached to Elda (despite loving Chii), and I don't believe in naming a computer Chii (since she's above that). I didn't really care for Yuzuki. I wouldn't name a computer after Ueda's Yumi. And unless I was christening a server or an antivirus program, I wouldn't use the names Zima or Dita. So that stated, I'm thinking I'm out of Chobits names. There never really was any persocom in the show who fit the role of a printer anyway -- they were PCs, laptops, a server, and a firewall/antivirus. (Naming my router with a Chobits name, iirc Freya, is already going one step too far for me!)

I will try to think of a good pop culture name for my printer. Until then, I OCD'edly won't be able to install it. HAL doesn't work. Preferably something that actually had to do with printing. Which I fear is going to prove pretty difficult considering even robot movies and novels focus on the PC and AI aspect of robots and not on tasks like printing, faxing, being a joystick or a keyboard, etc.