@ninjaemilee I am exactly the same. Approximately a ream and a half a week for work, and I think I’ve used my home printer twice in the last four months.
I mostly print NYT crossword puzzles. And the occasional recipe. I’m still using a 10+ year old HP b/w printer, but every time Windows changes the OS I have to finagle a way to talk to the ol’ gal. When that gravy train finally runs out I’ll be sad.
Thanks for listening to my printer story. You’re a true friend.
My company has gone a little overboard with the whole paperless craze, and so on the rare occasions we need to print something, we have to go to another building. It’s enough to make you look for a work around. I have gone three years without printing anything. Unless you count our fax machine. I used that as a loophole last summer.
I print typically several pages a day for work; sometimes I need a couple hundred. It’s not all work, work, work though; I made a Bachelor Chow label for a box of oatmeal.
I print interesting articles at work to read offline, jam it in my bag…and never read them . At home the kids and I print a dozen or two pages a week, not enough to keep the ink from plugging up an inkjet. We always seem to find this out five minutes after Staples closes the day before “IT’S A BIG PAPER DAD!” is due.
I recently bought and all in one scanner and laser printer for less money than I was paying for ink cartridges. I print so infrequently that the ink jet cartridges would always dry up, and a laser printer doesn’t have that problem.
My HP inkjet is hanging on only long enough to clear out the ink cartridges I got for basically nothing after my sister cleared out a business that went under and they found a bunch that fit my printer. (They were just going to throw them away.)
After that, I’m getting laser - not because I really need it (I print very little) but because it’s cool and the “ink” doesn’t dry out with half a tank left.
If my home printer would cooperate I’d print more. Very frustrating beause a business I use regularly which emails me coupons requires them to be redeemed in hard copy, the employee must staple it to the store’s copy of the receipt. I end up dragging a thumb drive to Office Max or the local business center a couple of times a month. I think it’s out of ink this time. Now I have to find out if this printer’s ink falls under Costco ’ s recharge program.
I’m doing my best to go paperless. Every receipt or document we receive in the mail gets scanned to PDF. The trouble, especially at work, is that physical paper is so much easier to glance through than scrolling a PDF on a monitor or even a tablet. I find myself printing PDFs just to make a stack of related documents for a specific task and then throwing them out when I’m done.
Personally, just a few sheets a week. But we’re a family of 4, so up around 25 (especially when reports are due).
I have noticed that some teachers allow digital submittals as well as paper copies.
Printers suck. Unless some corp let’s me use a biz HP or other monstrosity for free.
ZZZERO pages.
@f00l we have a 4-tray, all-in-one monstrosity. It comes up to the middle of my torso. (I’m about 5’5")
@ninjaemilee
The huge corp that let’s me print stuff has a bunch of them. Bigger than a desk, one of them.
I work as an office manager. You could say I live in our printer. At home though… 3-5 sheets every month give or take.
@ninjaemilee I am exactly the same. Approximately a ream and a half a week for work, and I think I’ve used my home printer twice in the last four months.
Most weeks I print two pages or less. On the other hand there’s the occasional atypical week when I print a couple thousand pages.
@kaighintze Likewise (actually, it’s rare I print more than a couple hundred at a time, but still it’s 0,0,0,0,200,0,0…)
I mostly print NYT crossword puzzles. And the occasional recipe. I’m still using a 10+ year old HP b/w printer, but every time Windows changes the OS I have to finagle a way to talk to the ol’ gal. When that gravy train finally runs out I’ll be sad.
Thanks for listening to my printer story. You’re a true friend.
Nearly everything I print is subsequently mailed to some government office because bureaucracy still doesn’t understand computers.
My company has gone a little overboard with the whole paperless craze, and so on the rare occasions we need to print something, we have to go to another building. It’s enough to make you look for a work around. I have gone three years without printing anything. Unless you count our fax machine. I used that as a loophole last summer.
A week? Sometimes I end up printing more than a hundred a day.
I print typically several pages a day for work; sometimes I need a couple hundred. It’s not all work, work, work though; I made a Bachelor Chow label for a box of oatmeal.
I print interesting articles at work to read offline, jam it in my bag…and never read them
. At home the kids and I print a dozen or two pages a week, not enough to keep the ink from plugging up an inkjet. We always seem to find this out five minutes after Staples closes the day before “IT’S A BIG PAPER DAD!” is due.
I run a print shop for a midwest company. 200K is a light month for me.
It’s rare that I print anything at home. At work, it can be nothing for a week, and then suddenly I’ll print 50 pages in one day.
I recently bought and all in one scanner and laser printer for less money than I was paying for ink cartridges. I print so infrequently that the ink jet cartridges would always dry up, and a laser printer doesn’t have that problem.
My HP inkjet is hanging on only long enough to clear out the ink cartridges I got for basically nothing after my sister cleared out a business that went under and they found a bunch that fit my printer. (They were just going to throw them away.)
After that, I’m getting laser - not because I really need it (I print very little) but because it’s cool and the “ink” doesn’t dry out with half a tank left.
At work, I typically print 4 or 5 things, and then they all go in the shredder at the end of the day.
If my home printer would cooperate I’d print more. Very frustrating beause a business I use regularly which emails me coupons requires them to be redeemed in hard copy, the employee must staple it to the store’s copy of the receipt. I end up dragging a thumb drive to Office Max or the local business center a couple of times a month. I think it’s out of ink this time. Now I have to find out if this printer’s ink falls under Costco ’ s recharge program.
I’m doing my best to go paperless. Every receipt or document we receive in the mail gets scanned to PDF. The trouble, especially at work, is that physical paper is so much easier to glance through than scrolling a PDF on a monitor or even a tablet. I find myself printing PDFs just to make a stack of related documents for a specific task and then throwing them out when I’m done.
How come I don’t care about any of this?
Personally, just a few sheets a week. But we’re a family of 4, so up around 25 (especially when reports are due).
I have noticed that some teachers allow digital submittals as well as paper copies.