I have not. Working from home meant I needed a printer at home. Especially for official documents needed for travel.
Ask HN: When did you stop using a printer and why?
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#2210 years ago. I’m in Japan and I go to the nearest convenience store, transfer the pdf document to the printer and get a clean print. I only use the printer for two pages a month to post the document, stamped with my company hanko, to a traditional Japanese big company.
The only time that I regret not having a printer is when it is pouring with rain on print day.
Why? Because dried up ink was a rip off.
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#23Several years ago, I can't remember exactly when. I simply don't have things I need to print anymore.
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#24I have a Xerox color laser I got for cheap. It sucks, and I found out after purchase that Xerox had sold me a broken refurbished machine, but the replacement mostly works. Print quality is pretty decent.
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#25When I moved out of my parents place years ago, I never bought a printer. I printed stuff at work from time to time as needed, and over time, the need for printed paperwork diminished. The last major thing I use printers for is immigration paperwork.
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#26I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it. For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the pages together to get a better feel for the document. Side note: why can't I get rid of the idea of pages in Word? Just let me type on an infinite white space. When things (tables, images, diagrams, paragraphs) get split over two "pages" it…
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#27I haven’t. I have a Brother laser printer that’s probably 10 years old now, if not closer to 15. I don’t use it frequently, but it comes in handy occasionally. My wife prints a little more than I do. Toner is cheap and lasts forever. I think I’ve been through 4-5 toner carts and 1 drum replacement.
If it died, I’d get another. As infrequently as I use one, when you need it it’s nice to have.
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#28I just woke up one morning and realised the printers had been using me all along.
I thought it was just me that had the realization one morning. Glad to know I have company.
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#29A few decades ago when multiple high-res monitors became affordable. (However, partner is addicted to printing important documents, so we have one.) Before that was fine to print at the print shop for a while until I learned copiers and printers are keeping internal copies of files and scans that are not deleted. Very few folks are aware of this, but the world keeps on spinning somehow. So I've been using our home pr…
Just hook it up via USB?
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#30I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it. For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the pages together to get a better feel for the document. Side note: why can't I get rid of the idea of pages in Word? Just let me type on an infinite white space. When things (tables, images, diagrams, paragraphs) get split over two "pages" it…
Somwthing like a mix between word (layout/ ui) and jupyter notebook (for the infinite single page design with cells) might be an interesting project. Maybe as a libre- or openoffice fork.