I feel your pain. I have the same dilemma right now. I am in grad school...

Last year I had access to an office where I was interning (read: lots of free printing), which made life easier. (Yes, I still used recycled paper and double sided etc. etc.)

Now....officeless.....I am left to using my own ink jet. Ugh. While I can't quite justify printing out 500 pages of reading from academic journals that I have (for ONE! paper), I also don't think I will be able to tolerate reading them online.

From what I understand, printers that have toner instead of ink (I hope I'm getting this terminology right) are cheaper to use. (Usually the big copiers/printers in offices have toner...but they also sell smaller toner printers).

I believe toner printers are more expensive outright, but that the cost is WAY offset because inkjet printer ink is SO expensive!


I feel your pain though! A lot of times I just need to read articles for a paper...to see if they are relevant. Once I decide they are, then I need to be able to write on them....so....computer screen is not so helpful.

Maybe there is a software that lets you highlight and such on PDFs (without having Adobe) for this purpose???? Anyone know of one???