Jon,

is this something you will need to do for years? a year?

Jon,

here is their June announcement. This is not a joke:

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Holy crap that's...

t brain shorts out

That's astounding.

le nube, I probably don't want to commit to more than 6 months to a year.

Thanks for those links, by the way. I'm going to play around with the free version of dropsend.com. If that doesn't meet my needs, both they and transferbigfiles.com have $5/month options that may suffice.

It looks like the free version of megaupload takes about 2 hours to upload one of the typical files I'll be receiving, so that's the benchmark I'm testing against.

excellent. would you let me know what you finally decide? I'm curious.

Any suggestions on a laser printer that works well with Macs.

I have a brother HL2040 [link]

It's USB, it's plugged into the USB jack on the Airport Extreme wi-fi router. I can print from my iMac, from my Win7 laptop, and work MacBook Pro with no problem at all. I don't do a lot of printing. But it works great for me. I got an older version of this for old job, and it was about 2 years before I had to replace the ink cartridge. Again, not a ton of printing, but a heck of a lot more than I do at home.

I print a whole lot, at least by home standard - whole books for editing, some brochures and pamphlets for political groups I belong to. I'd say at least medium by home office standards.

My Hp 1320 has worked like a champ. They want to sell me expensive cartridges, but I get no name ones through Amazon for $35 that last at least 5,000 pages. That is around 7/10ths of a page for toner. I'm on windows, but assume HP works with Macs. Again B&W and only makes sense if your volume is high enough if your volume is high enough that a low per page price is worth a higher up-front cost. (Though the 1320 is not that much more expensive than comparable brothers. Also the duplex printing (ability to print on both sides) can be very convenient. Maybe these days that is universal, but when I bought it a lot in the same price range lacked duplex printing

I ended up getting an HP laser printer (P2055dn). It's plugged into our desktop and I can print wirelessly that way. I ended up getting it because it does double sided printing and seems like it should last. Plus, it's a tax deduction.

Cool. I suggest getting a generic laser toner well before your current one wears out. (You can check to see how many pages your toner is good for.) If you live in a major city maybe you can buy locally. Otherwise on-line is your best bet. I get mine for $35 from somebody's Amazon store. Locally the same thing (generic, not real HP) is $85. Again if you don't live in a hick town the price difference may be less. But check it out now so you don't have to buy in a hurry. Check if there is an extended cartridge that lasts for more pages than the standard. The price difference is usually worth it in savings per page. And if there is an HP extended, there will be a generic extended.

I don't mean you need to get it now. But check out the price difference between local and on-line so you know whether on-line saves you enough to be worth it, and then if on-line is best for you, order well before your current one wears out so you don't need to buy a new one in a rush and end buying locally or paying for express shipping.