Photographers don’t pay that much for inkjet inks. They buy commercial grade printers which cost a lot more up front but have much cheaper continuous feed ink tanks.
Only naïve consumers pay those highly inflated prices for ink. Those people should be buying a cheap laser printer but they’re not well-informed about the situation and so they get the cheapest possible printer which happens to be an inkjet.
OEMs. The documentation for every factory machine my company builds included a 3-ring binder of the entire system documentation as well as a print out of the schematics. Go ahead and try to convince a factory owner that paid us a quarter of a million not to include a 2 dollar manual.
Also I will sometimes print out complicated schematics and let my intern mark it up with pen. Sometimes you catch mistakes by changing your perspective.
I print a lot. As far as I’m concerned, #email is dead. It was killed by MS & Google. Probably 99+% of the world still does not use PGP. Web forms? No, they’re also dead to me because I refuse to solve most #CAPTCHAs & most certainly will not solve a Google #reCAPTCHA. Message centers? Also dead to me because a good number of them are snooped on by Cloudflare, or they proactively block Tor.
Even if a web form or message center is non-Cloudflare & open to Tor users, most of them demand too much info. They always make email address a required field. They’re not getting an email address from me if their MX server is Outlook or Gmail.
Hence why I’ve gone back to the paper letter, apart from the few recipients who still have a fax number.
Back when I worked the reference desk at a public library, one of my duties was helping people print stuff. People print things for lots of reasons. Here are a few:
invitations for children’s birthday parties
clip art for art projects
brochures
letters they’re mailing to someone
Government documents that they then need help faxing
tax forms because they’ve been doing their taxes on paper for 50+ years and don’t want to learn how to do them online
passport applications
Of course, the library charged 20¢/page (black and white), which is much cheaper for the occasional user than owning their own printer. It also sidesteps the maintenance and ink drying issues the casual printer user would encounter. And it doesn’t escape my notice that a lot of the use cases I mention involve interacting with the government.
They ought to go out of business. I mean who the heck prints stuff anymore?
All government instances.
True, but governments are generally using laser printers or printing presses.
I saw your username and was just wondering if I could call you “Meg”?
I’m actually male, but based on my username, Meg works. I’m cool with that.
Photographers.
Photographers don’t pay that much for inkjet inks. They buy commercial grade printers which cost a lot more up front but have much cheaper continuous feed ink tanks.
Only naïve consumers pay those highly inflated prices for ink. Those people should be buying a cheap laser printer but they’re not well-informed about the situation and so they get the cheapest possible printer which happens to be an inkjet.
OEMs. The documentation for every factory machine my company builds included a 3-ring binder of the entire system documentation as well as a print out of the schematics. Go ahead and try to convince a factory owner that paid us a quarter of a million not to include a 2 dollar manual.
Also I will sometimes print out complicated schematics and let my intern mark it up with pen. Sometimes you catch mistakes by changing your perspective.
I print a lot. As far as I’m concerned, #email is dead. It was killed by MS & Google. Probably 99+% of the world still does not use PGP. Web forms? No, they’re also dead to me because I refuse to solve most #CAPTCHAs & most certainly will not solve a Google #reCAPTCHA. Message centers? Also dead to me because a good number of them are snooped on by Cloudflare, or they proactively block Tor.
Even if a web form or message center is non-Cloudflare & open to Tor users, most of them demand too much info. They always make email address a required field. They’re not getting an email address from me if their MX server is Outlook or Gmail.
Hence why I’ve gone back to the paper letter, apart from the few recipients who still have a fax number.
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The primary use for my printer is printing shipping labels when selling stuff online. I don’t wanna go to the post office if I don’t have to.
Back when I worked the reference desk at a public library, one of my duties was helping people print stuff. People print things for lots of reasons. Here are a few:
Of course, the library charged 20¢/page (black and white), which is much cheaper for the occasional user than owning their own printer. It also sidesteps the maintenance and ink drying issues the casual printer user would encounter. And it doesn’t escape my notice that a lot of the use cases I mention involve interacting with the government.