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I'm in Tasmania's second largest city, Launceston. The closest printing shop with extended hours, which I need because I'm just a lowly blue collar working who

I'm in Tasmania's second largest city, Launceston. The closest printing shop with extended hours, which I need because I'm just a lowly blue collar working who needs to work 12 hour days to make ends meet, is Officeworks, and there's exactly one of those here and it's 8 kilometres from my house and shuts at 7pm. I'll just use my second hand Brother colour laser, cheers.

derefr 5y ago
Or, presuming you don’t work 7 day weeks, you could just go during working hours on the weekend. Again, who needs glossy photo prints with a 24 hour deadline? What for?
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
  Six day weeks, leaves me with Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Does it bother you that much if I’m ok maintaining a colour laser printer myself because I want to have it handy for the Hangul of times a month I want to use it.
  - ev1 5y ago
    I think it's reasonable if you're using it multiple times a month. I know my use case pattern is something like "oh shit, I have to print [a form/some homework-type presentation]" closer to once a year.
- yunohn 5y ago
  > glossy photo prints with a 24 hour deadline? What for? Why do you assume that’s the /only/ thing someone would want printed? Quite odd, considering the declining popularity of print photos.
  - derefr 5y ago
    Because this thread is about buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability, and how that removes the option of printing photos (which is something people sometimes try to do at home), but retains the option to print pretty much anything else[1] people try to print at home. And then, as a tangent, this is a subthread about using printing services to substitute for the rare — and as you say, declining! — use-case of printing photos, which, when you realize that that's possible, makes the calculus of "buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability" much more clear. [1] (It also removes the option to print e.g. color flyers or posters or business cards, but people don't generally try to do any of those at home anyway, instead deferring to a commercial printer to 1. get a high-quality result, and 2. not have to buy dozens of ink cartridges and spend hours fighting their printer to get a thousand flyers out of it.)

derefr 5y ago

Or, presuming you don’t work 7 day weeks, you could just go during working hours on the weekend. Again, who needs glossy photo prints with a 24 hour deadline? What for?

TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
Six day weeks, leaves me with Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Does it bother you that much if I’m ok maintaining a colour laser printer myself because I want to have it handy for the Hangul of times a month I want to use it.
- ev1 5y ago
  I think it's reasonable if you're using it multiple times a month. I know my use case pattern is something like "oh shit, I have to print [a form/some homework-type presentation]" closer to once a year.
yunohn 5y ago
> glossy photo prints with a 24 hour deadline? What for? Why do you assume that’s the /only/ thing someone would want printed? Quite odd, considering the declining popularity of print photos.
- derefr 5y ago
  Because this thread is about buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability, and how that removes the option of printing photos (which is something people sometimes try to do at home), but retains the option to print pretty much anything else[1] people try to print at home. And then, as a tangent, this is a subthread about using printing services to substitute for the rare — and as you say, declining! — use-case of printing photos, which, when you realize that that's possible, makes the calculus of "buying a simple B&W laser printer for its reliability" much more clear. [1] (It also removes the option to print e.g. color flyers or posters or business cards, but people don't generally try to do any of those at home anyway, instead deferring to a commercial printer to 1. get a high-quality result, and 2. not have to buy dozens of ink cartridges and spend hours fighting their printer to get a thousand flyers out of it.)