bit-twidler,
There was no paper economy with mine. It would burst in to life and throw out an inch of so of paper at a time, except it would only print a proper sheet per minute.
Every time they tried to configure it as a proper network printer it would issue more scrap paper. Finally they admitted the printer was not capable of being installed on the network and they had to get the manufacturer to write new drivers.
Don't know if it is fixed yet.