Too many comments here miss the point of what Bruce says:

Regulation is coming!

If technologically savvy people do not get engaged then technologically illiterate people will make the rules.
You could become a politician, but you can also support lawyers, politicians and (the right) lobbyists.

But no matter what, regulation is coming!

The internet and technology play a bigger and bigger rule in our daily lives and that makes regulation inevitable.
I am sorry if this offends your belief in freedom, libertarianism, small government, or whatever. Where many people become engaged there need to be rules that govern those social and economic relationships.
Wasn't "bureaucracy" an achievement in Civilisation or some similar game? Letâ(TM)s create small and few rules.

Regulation is coming ! (thank you game of thrones)

Oh, and I did not mean to call the Brother a "cheap hobbyist printer", it looks very nice. The Lexmark and the Epson are built for much larger print runs, though.

Thats what I believed, too. But it is not true any more for "bigger" printers. For normal SOHO use I would prefer a laser any time, too, beacuse it's more rugged, but who knows how much the original poster really wants to print in color?

I'll give you a comparison in Euros, from this website: http://www.druckerchannel.de
Who knows? Maybe toner is cheaper and ink is more expensive in the US. But here the difference is not even funny: (for color that is)

Prices are for the standardized ISO test pages and the original toner/ink. Maybe you can hunt for vastly different prices with refills but it's a hunt and you have to find quality. I think that if the original toner/ink gives you a nice price, refills should be even cheaper by a comparable amount for each printer so that the difference in costs per page stays about the same between the compared printers.

Your Brother would cost me €193 to buy and with the original toner I would have to pay 13 cents for a color page and 1.5 cents for b/w,
€40 for 4000 pages of black toner
€99 for 3500 pages of each color
€119 every 25000 for a drum kit
€77 every 50000 for a transfer unit
€14 every 5000 for a waste toner box

Epson B510dn 0.8 cents b/w and 3.1 cents color
€58 for 8000 pages of black ink
€52 for 7000 pages for each of the three colors
€15 every 35000 pages for the waste ink box
The printer itself is available for €400

Now heres an expensive color laser with cheap toner costs:
The Xerox Colorqube 8870DN color laserprinter costs €2000 and you have to pay 3.5 cents for each ISO color page.

Here is a a color laser theat costs a little bit less than the Epson to buy:
The Kyocera FS-C5250DN color laser costs €380 and you have to pay 8.3 cents for each ISO color page. (Very nice printer)
Its €82 for 7000 pages of black toner and €90 for 5000 pages of toner for each color.

Bot the Epson and the Kyocera are rock solid and you can get on site maintainance contracts. Don't compare them with a cheap hobyyist printer that will be a pain to maintain.

And while I'm at it, here's the multifunction color laser Lexmark X748de: 6.7 cents per color page, 1.4 cents b/w
See, just like I said it's nice for printing black and white unlike some color laser vendors who also gouge you on black toner.
But it's a €2000 initial purchase price.
€162 for 12000 pages of black toner
€190 for 10000 pages of each color
€92 every 20000 pages for a drum kit (but you can get away with lying to the printer and use the old drums some more)
€7 every 25000 pages for a waste toner box.

Very solid, if you want to have a nice color laser that works as a copier, too. Its a flatbed scanner with a document feed and it scans both sides of the page.

I have used all of these printers but the Xerox and the brother. The Lexmark and the Kyocera are rock solid in typical laser fashion. The Epson can be finicky feeding paper. The 500 page bootom try is suspectible to paper orientation problems. See the arrow on the side each 500 page ream of paper? Thats the side the Epson wants to print on first. No such problems with the smaller top feed. Normally I do not like Inkjets, but we use the Epson every day, so nothing dries up inside.

Already people are perpetuating a lot of myths.

- Laser ist cheaper than Inkjet
This is not true. A cheap color laser has very expensive toner needs whereas an expensive inkjet printer can be cheaper than many color lasers. If you cheaply want to print color the Epson B510DN is a goot choice. It is not so great for photos though and as with any Inkjet it wants to be used regularily.
If you want a color laser you have to buy a very expensive model to achieve cheap toner costs. This is only interesting if you have to print enough color pages,

Personally I would buy an Kyocera FS-1370 for cheap black and white laser printing. As mentioned by a post above this, it only needs toner and cheap refills are available without loss of quality. A new toner cartridge wheighs like a pound and it's all toner. But if you buy a cheap color laser from Kyocera the toner costs a lot.

For cheap color printing I would buy the above mentioned Epson.

And I woul buy a dedicated scanner.

If space constrains make you buy an all in one machine for scanning copying and color printing. I would get an Lexmark X748de It's expensive but the toner costs are OK. YOu can even use it as a b/w laser without feeling too bad. Lexmark has a rightfully deserved bad reputation for their small printers because ink was very expensive. Their professional models are great, though and the repair service is good.

Vodafone Websessions: Walk into the Vodafone store at the airport €30 for the UMTS (3G) usb stick, €5/day (capped at 1GB transfer volume) or 10€/week (similarly capped at 1GB). The only problem might be that they don't have the package and will have to send it to your hotel/address. It's pay as you go, after login you have to enter your credit card info.Similar offers are available from T-Online (web'n'walk €50 with a usb stick including €10 on the pre paid account.). O2 and Eplus are generally cheaper but their 3G coverage is often not as good as Telekom or Vodafone.

Of course there are tons of other options available.

I guess you really have to begin producing the action figures mentioned in the previous post now.

You should get your phone system to put the 9 already in front of the number when it sends the callerid to the ip phone, duh.

The truth is no insult!

You made "kshhhhhh boing, boing! Kshhhhhhhh." ?

56k is pure luxury! In my time we had 9600baud modems! (Nobody knew the difference between baud and bits/s back then)