On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:54:45 +0000 (UTC), Gordon Henderson wrote:

I did the power meter thing a year or 2 ago - went round the house
meansuring everything. The only real surprise was my HP Colour Laser
printer. In it's "low-power" idle mode it's sucking 30W. That now gets
turned off.

My old HP5N took 45s from standby or 45s from On - I didn't bother to
measure it as there was no advantage in it being on, but I'd guess it was
about the same.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.