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.
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.