I vote with the rest - take the PDF to a copy shop and have them do it
for you.  Should be less than a few cents a side, so a 400 page
datasheet will be less than $20 at a cheap copy shop.

Alternately, talk to your employer.  They'll probably let you do it for
a small amount of money, or sometimes free!  Make sure they understand
this'll tie up the printer for half an hour.

However, as a computer consultant, I've pretty much started telling
everyone who prints long documents occasionally to invest in a laser
printer.  I got a nice Apple laser printer from a grage sale for $40 a
few years ago and only recently replaced the $100 toner/drum unit.  Each
cartridge is able to print about 4,000 pages, so I get about 2.5 cents
per page.

A current cheap laser printer, such as the LaserJet 1000, will cost $250
to start with, and will go for about 2.5k pages before the next $65
cartridge change.  After three more cartridges the total cost of the
printer, cartridges and paper is about 5 cents per page.  Given that
it's a laserjet and should last a good few years, the cost goes down to
3.6 cents per page.

Given that a cheap inkjet will cost 10 to 20 cents per black and white
page, and upwards of 75 cents for a color page, the cost of a laser
printer is quite small, even when new.  I've only had to change the
cartridge once since I bought it, so I don't even keep an extra on hand,
like I have to with all the inkjets I use.  I rarely need color, but
when I do I know that my inkjet is going to be fine since I use it so
infrequently.

-Adam

Ryan runderbrink wrote:

>Does anyone know if Microchip sells paper copies of the datasheets?  I want a few of them on paper copy, but I don't want to waste an ink cartridge apiece.  If Microchip doesnt, does anyone know someone who does?
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