It's well past time to replace the wife's ancient Epson 740 inkjet, which she uses for general purpose printing. She'd like to get one of the HP Color Laserjets. Although the main use would still be printing documents, it would be nice if we could also use the new printer for decent quality travel snaps from the Nikon digicam. Photo printing would be color only, I use the darkroom for B&W.

Is anyone familiar with these? How does the quality compare with dedicated photo inkjet printers? I assume one can tell the difference, but is it so bad that I could do better with crayons?

Do color laser printers use dry toner cartridges like B&W lasers? That would be a real plus. She doesn't use the printer very frequently and it's expensively annoying to realize that it's time for new ink cartridges after maybe 50-100 sheets. My LaserjetIII has had the same toner cartridge for 7 or 8 years now, and it was used when I got it Actually, this is her main motivation for considering the color laserjet.

Any other suggestions?