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We must end the tyranny of individualism? ;) Recently, I needed to print something in Vietnam. I took the elevator down from my apartment into the underground
by fxtentacle 3y ago
We must end the tyranny of individualism? ;)
Recently, I needed to print something in Vietnam. I took the elevator down from my apartment into the underground shopping mall and walked over to their print section. I scanned the printer's QR code to pay them $.1 and then I could send the document from my phone to the printer. Great print quality, lots of paper options, and easy to use. Plus I can even combine my printing trip with buying breakfast/lunch in the hawker centre along the way.
In my opinion, you only need your own printer if the public infrastructure isn't good.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoHere, we have libraries and commercial print shops, like Office Depot, UPS Store, FedEx store. There was a coffee house with a printer, too. But the nearest one is a mile away. If it were an easy walk, that'd be great. It'd be logical for USPS stations to have printers; they want to do more retail operations, right? What if every Circle K and 7-Eleven had a printer? Hmm.
- qawwads 3y agoThere are privacy issues with transmitting your print jobs to your nearby underground shopping mall.
- fxtentacle 3y agoGiven how intrusive they usually behave, I'd expect the average consumer printer to phone home, too. The solution in both cases is privacy laws.
- BetaDeltaAlpha 3y agoI can put my home printer in a restricted vlan and block it from phoning back to HP. No laws needed (until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least).
- josephcsible 3y ago> until the mfg tries to brick the device on loss of WAN access at least Didn't HP already do that with their Instant Ink program?
- fxtentacle 3y agoOr until the manufacturer includes a cheap GPRS module in the hardware.