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How often do you print anything (for personal reasons)?

I print instruction sheets for kits, order packing lists and invoices etc.
 
I only print a few sheets a month. Mainly piano scores, guitar tabs and documentation for parcels. The MFP gets far, far more use as a scanner.
 
In my last job I was selling wine at food festivals and needed to print off price lists (sixty odd pages) at least monthly, since it was a commission only job I invested in a laser printer with duplex to keep costs down. Unfortunately I did so very shortly before leaving the job. These days I print my own monthly schedules and 'Reflection Logs' for my wife's driving students to fill in. Other than that things like manuals (I'm currently starting Fallout, the first one, and jumping in and out of it on a modern machine is a bit of a pain so using the pdf is less than ideal).

That said I do a lot of printing but most of it is 3D not 2.
 
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A couple of times a month; mostly sewing patterns that I've bought as pdfs. There's a place in the village that will print them for me but they charge such a lot.
 
We print practically any ticket, form, or document because my wife insists that it is more safe. Personally, I don’t need a printer most of time, and I sign documents digitally.

However, I do think my wife has a point, because it has happened that documents have been unavailable because they were mysteriously deleted, or there was no network access for some reason. But the filing system of my wife has been infallible.
 
steenkh said:
We print practically any ticket, form, or document because my wife insists that it is more safe. Personally, I don’t need a printer most of time, and I sign documents digitally.

However, I do think my wife has a point, because it has happened that documents have been unavailable because they were mysteriously deleted, or there was no network access for some reason. But the filing system of my wife has been infallible.
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The first time, I used a pdf of a boarding pass on my phone, you should have seen the looks I received from the other passengers.

I'd imagine it's pretty much standard these days.
 
Agatha said:
A couple of times a month; mostly sewing patterns that I've bought as pdfs. There's a place in the village that will print them for me but they charge such a lot.
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I’ve seen ads for patterns online and often wondered how that works. What size paper do you need?
 
I use a printer daily- but thats for 'work purposes', and its only a 50mm wide thermal receipt printer lol
(it 'can' actually do limited picture etc in 'black and white' but pretty meh quality...)

I actually have two inkjets here- they both in theory should still work, but neither has ink, and I haven't used either in this decade yet...
 
I've had an HP Laserjet 4P since 1993 (when HP were still good!) and according to the firmware test page, I've only printed 750 pages in all that time! Why, it's practically still new!
 
novaphile said:
The first time, I used a pdf of a boarding pass on my phone, you should have seen the looks I received from the other passengers.

I'd imagine it's pretty much standard these days.
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I feel safer having printed copies for backup, just in case my phone stops working or something.
 
Almost never now. We have a nice Brother wifi laser printer. My daughter is at uni now and no longer prints off homework sheets or pictures for art projects. My wife, who has her own business as an IT project manager, long ago moved the last process online. The last thing I printed was tickets for a show (Ed Byrne - Tragedy plus time - see it if you can) and noticed the warning about yellow ink has been on for years.
 
bigred said:
I haven't had a printer in years because I almost never have a need or even interest in printing anything. I've printed something like twice in the past 5 years. Just wondering if that's typical
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Probably sometime in the last year.
 
I'm keeping a spreadsheet of my freezer inventory which I update and print every couple weeks. (I write on it in the in-between.) After so many years of playing roulette with whatever I have in my 3 freezers (one in the fridge and two cube-style in the basement -- one for meat and the other for bread and veggies), I finally decided to keep track of what goes in and comes out. Many times I have forgotten I have something and it's a pleasant surprise to find it on the list.
 
alfaniner said:
I'm keeping a spreadsheet of my freezer inventory which I update and print every couple weeks. (I write on it in the in-between.) After so many years of playing roulette with whatever I have in my 3 freezers (one in the fridge and two cube-style in the basement -- one for meat and the other for bread and veggies), I finally decided to keep track of what goes in and comes out. Many times I have forgotten I have something and it's a pleasant surprise to find it on the list.
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...what? What do you mean, roulette? Like...you go down to the basement, seize an unlabelled package, and say "THIS shall be dinner!" and then you open it to find out it's just blueberries or a pack of egg roll wrappers? It's novel, I grant you, but I'm wondering if such a game is actually much fun.
 
TragicMonkey said:
...what? What do you mean, roulette? Like...you go down to the basement, seize an unlabelled package, and say "THIS shall be dinner!" and then you open it to find out it's just blueberries or a pack of egg roll wrappers? It's novel, I grant you, but I'm wondering if such a game is actually much fun.
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You might be surprised at what a decent cook (moi) can come up with when faced with a challenge.
 
alfaniner said:
You might be surprised at what a decent cook (moi) can come up with when faced with a challenge.
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Heh. My fridge is busted so right now it only contains lukewarm soda, ketchup, and two bags of sugar. (I keep sugar in the fridge to discourage ants.)
 
arthwollipot said:
Oh, and for D&D I always recommend going electronic. I use Hero Lab, but Beyond, Roll20 and other platforms are fine as long as you're okay with paying for the books twice.

The advantage of using a non-paper character sheet is that a computer never forgets to add your proficiency bonus.
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I am in a game using Roll20, and we keep our sheets updated in the system, but I still like a paper copy during game sessions.
 
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