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Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would generally assume that everybody has at least 1 printer at home. I'm also not aware of many printers that keep logs for lo
by brk 4y ago
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would generally assume that everybody has at least 1 printer at home. I'm also not aware of many printers that keep logs for long durations, but perhaps their shared network printers were logging to some kind of system log.
- prepend 4y agoIt’s higher than I expected at 70% of Americans having home printers. [0] I expected it to be super old but there must be old people with printers. I get annoyed when companies expect me to print stuff at home. I prefer companies to assume that no one has a home printer and plan for it by including return labels and whatnot. [0] https://metafacts.com/home-printer-trends-in-the-us-tupdate/ https://metafacts.com/home-printer-trends-in-the-us-tupdate/
- bojan 4y agoI wonder how many of those printers are actually still functioning. There was a time once where you actually had to print stuff (anyone remembers MapQuest maps?), so I'm guessing there are still a lot of printers from that era collecting dust at people's homes.
- rtkwe 4y agoI swapped over to a laser printer for that exact reason. There's still a few things a year I need to print and the laser printer stays working through the lulls where I always had issues with inkjets clogging up.
- distances 4y agoAnd I walk to a nearby copy shop for my printing needs. At maybe twice a year it's a rare enough occasion that I refuse to keep a printer myself.
- rtkwe 4y agoI do shooting sports so I print a lot of targets for that too.
- olyjohn 4y agoThat's what I do for photo printing. I use my laser for things like maps, tickets, instructions and forms. Love using it to print out instructions for use in the shop, where I can get my greasy fingers all over the paper, and not on my nice clean instruction manual.... When I need some color photos printed, I head to the print shop.
- jaywalk 4y agoYes, I love my laser printer. It's somewhere around 10 years old, and has printed a grand total of 99 pages. But it's still happily using the same toner it came with, while an inkjet's ink would have dried out and needed replacing countless times.
- jwozn 4y agoI had an old HP printer from 2009 that I finally got rid of this year. The case was broken, the tray was falling off, and it spent years collecting dust. It still worked! Only the ink dried out. I'm curious about the reliability of printers, and how often people have to replace them.
- lijogdfljk 4y agoYea i have a printer; a decent one (laser iirc) for my wifes college papers. We've not hooked it up in years though, and offhand i'm not even sure how to use it.. that's how long it's been lol. Hell, i'm not even exactly sure where it is ..
- iceburgcrm 4y agoMy c64 has a great working dotmatrix printer. A home computer without a printer is a modern invention. I would expect if the employee had a computer they would have a printer.
- kube-system 4y agoI would expect the employee to have a modern computer.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoMy wife wanted a photo printer. At first I told her it was a ridiculously primitive and pointless idea, but I went along with it since I had a bonus burning a hole in my pocket I have to admit, it turned out to be pretty cool. I hadn't used a printer in years for anything personal, and it turns out you can print professional-looking glossy photos for like 15 cents each between ink and glossy photo paper. Now we have a ton of nice family photos all over the walls, and I printed out a selfie from my WoW character when our guild killed some raid boss together and mixed it in with the other pics
- insane_dreamer 4y ago> everybody has at least 1 printer at home why would anyone have more than one at home?
- johannes1234321 4y agoA photo printer and some fast laser printer for example.
- asdajksah2123 4y agoCorporate networks tend to keep printer logs for extremely long durations. Also, printers at home are incredibly useful. I'm surprised more people don't have them. Especially now that online shopping (and therefore online returns) are so much more common and require printing return labels.
- HideousKojima 4y agoAmazon returns no longer require printing out labels, so someone who does most/all their online ordering via Amazon wouldn't need a printer.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoI need to print return stickers for Amazon in EU.
- flo123456 4y agoInteresting. I’m germany we love paper but amazon returns work without the need to print a label at home.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIn Austria you do need to print the label. How dos returning without a label work? I mean how does the post know where to ship the package?
- HideousKojima 4y agoAt least in the US, Amazon has arrangements with major shipping companies like UPS and FedEx. So if you want to return something, Amazon says "Bring the item to your local UPS store and have them scan this QR code." The QR code gives UPS the shipping information it needs.
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- torben-friis 4y ago>Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would generally assume that everybody has at least 1 printer at home. I haven’t seen a home printer since I moved out. In all these years I’ve only needed to use a printer once (sheet music when I was learning piano). It’s just not that common to use paper anymore, aside from school projects.
- yamtaddle 4y agoSchool projects and super-handy things like being able to print coloring pages on-demand for most any topic one can think up, are probably a big part of why they're still so common. It is so damn nice to have a printer if you have kids of most any age. I've also yet to find a superior UI to printed pages for running RPGs. Books are great, iPads are great, laptops can be OK, but for the core material you need for a given session, there's nothing in the world I know of that beats ~20-30 pages of printed notes and excerpted bits of PDF books & some randomly-generated junk from the Web for each session, so you have only expected-to-be-relevant info in it. Nothing better when you're actually at the table. I mean, you could do the same thing writing it by hand if you have very neat handwriting, but being able to mix together your own notes and e.g. NPC template-blocks, custom maps, and commercial material pulled from books, is awesome and saves tons of time when prepping. You can achieve something similar with just an iPad, but it's still slower and more awkward to actually use—though I do have other things I use tablets for at the table, that they excel at.
- weberer 4y agoI haven't needed to print anything at home in over a decade.