Daniel · 14 answers · 2y

For a decade everyone had a home printer, now no one has a home printer. What were we printing?

All of our hard copy midterm and final projects and papers that we had to turn in to our college professors.

I still have a printer. It’s mostly for work stuff. I can’t remember the last time I used it for anything else.

travel stuff - airline tickets, boarding passes, hotel confirmations and such...could just be me though

Who doesn't have a home printer these days?!

Our printer still gets plenty of use. My very likely neurodivergent daughter has people I need to refer her to, SLT, Autism pathway etc and the paperwork needs filling in by hand.

There are other uses, such as printing off CVS.

haha, I have still a home printer. I do print stamps. Yeah, modern times and modern bar code stamps. But the printer manufacturere hated customers plus printers. Which is a weird combo. But yess, they made their printers short lived, expensive to use and maintain, kept the printer driver space scarce and the market accordingly shrinked. Now since everybody has a smartphone the size of a post card the world shifts to digital in pictures and documents and online communication. So no printers any more, no handwriting, no letters, no forms, no notes written or printed.

documents, images, street directions, custom greeting cards

I don't get that meme, I still do have one and it's useful.

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