Occasionally, I will travel with hardcopy for travel itinerary, reservation info, flight info, and the occasional QR code to interface with various services and kiosks along the way. Reason being: sometimes, I’m in a busy place and I’m simply not getting to an outlet to feed a hungry phone. Plus, apps are aggressively networked these days (no offline data) so losing access to information due to spotty cell or wifi reception is a stupid problem to have, especially when paper is such a reliable workaround.
Also, a hard-copy backup for tax filings and other important transactions is cheap insurance.
I’ll add that I’m currently using a 15-year-old HP laser printer that’s on its second toner cartridge. An inkjet would have clogged and sent to e-waste about five times over by now. So it’s hardly an inconvenience.
Why would someone that works with tech want to own a 2d printer?
Printing return labels mostly.
Occasionally, I will travel with hardcopy for travel itinerary, reservation info, flight info, and the occasional QR code to interface with various services and kiosks along the way. Reason being: sometimes, I’m in a busy place and I’m simply not getting to an outlet to feed a hungry phone. Plus, apps are aggressively networked these days (no offline data) so losing access to information due to spotty cell or wifi reception is a stupid problem to have, especially when paper is such a reliable workaround.
Also, a hard-copy backup for tax filings and other important transactions is cheap insurance.
I’ll add that I’m currently using a 15-year-old HP laser printer that’s on its second toner cartridge. An inkjet would have clogged and sent to e-waste about five times over by now. So it’s hardly an inconvenience.
You have to print your own return labels? Every time I have needed one they print it out for me at any shop that takes deliveries.
Have to? No. Want to in order to avoid potential problems since I already have a printer around? Yes.
Portable rage room, a la Office Space