that’s LATE STAGE CAPITALISM
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I had a giant monochrome laser printer that the university was just giving away. Probably an HP LaserJet 4, looking at pictures. It lasted maybe 15 years. I went through a series of cheap multi-function printers on the side just in case I needed color.
I had a big fat hp color laser that was very reliable. After 7 years sitting in a storage room I plugged it in and it worked perfectly. But I didn’t want to lug it around so I gave it to my sister.
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Socialism rules. I’ve literally never owned a printer or scanner, been using public libraries on rare occasions when I need to print stuff at home.
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Why the hell is the Johnny Depp trial public?
Because we live in a cyberpunk dystopia. Reality TV shows where people actually die aren’t too far off.
+10000 to a basic ass B&W laser printer. I bought a Samsung printer in 2016 for $60 on sale at Saples and the thing prints great. I have had a few issues with “paper jams” over the years but it is an order of magnitude fewer issues than any inkjet printer I’ve used.
imo just take a photo.
Scanning apps on the iPhone work great. Convenience of a photo, quality of a scan.
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Taking a photo is messy with tax forms. They come out pretty ratty.
Not sure how you guys are managing that because mine always look like shit. Also a pain to do with a 12 page tax document, and then combine it into a PDF.
I use an app from Microsoft called Lens that works good for this. You can takes photos of several pages and save it as one PDF.
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I use Genius Scan on the iPhone, combines the pages automatically or keeps them separate if you desire. Auto-straightens, etc. Couldn’t be easier.
i use Scannable. it can do pdf and jpegs, and also fixes the page is bent or curved. which is annoying for grid paper. and saves them to evernote automatically
I used to have a physical scanner but that became obsolete when I discovered that my phone’s Dropbox app makes it super easy to scan and upload documents. That and apple wallet for boarding passes were my two recent “old man amazed by very basic technology” moments.
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Just want to point out that this tweet is misleading; academic articles are rarely this cheap. The floor for an ILL request at my institution is 40 bones, I think. Science journal subscriptions in particular are usually thousands, often tens of thousands of dollars per year.
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Today I tried to put on reading glasses when I was already wearing reading glasses.
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do your companies usually celebrate 5 year (or any year) anniversaries for employees?
I really don’t understand or appreciate referring to downloading a ticket onto your phone as “print at home”.