I got an HP color laser not long ago and noticed something very annoying but probably commonplace today. They provide a program to check your toner levels instead of a read-out on the printer. When you start the program it GOES ONLINE to report back to it's true owner - HP. If your firewall blocks this the program FAILS TO WORK. All you want to do is check your @#$%ing toner levels. Why should that be any business of HP's? It's this kind sneaky @#$% tricks we now come to expect from the snotty little brats who work for large American corporations today. They take the attitude that you are stupid and can be used by THEIR software to help them with their marketing and it's ok and preferable if you don't know it's being done. What's worse with this particular program is that it stays on after you've closed the program unless you stop the process in task manager and prevent it from starting on boot up.