AccidentalLemming10 liquids that cost less than printer ink
BombOmOmStop buying printer ink. Buy a laser printer and buy toner instead. It’s significantly cheaper.
For B&W text, sure. But the quality of laser required to print a decent colour photo is not cheap.
How often does the average person really need that, though?
Theres always ‘but sometimes’ arguments to everything, but the advice was general.
Shipping labels, concert tickets, sometimes train tickets and airline tickets (some companies don’t accept them just on the phone), contracts, NDAs, tax returns, etc.
Depends on where you live and how much you interact with other companies and government agencies.
A simple B&W laser printer would work great for all those things
Yes. The word “color” is mentioned exactly 0 times in the ancestor nodes above my comment.
I’ve printed most items on that list in black and white. Why would you need color for any of those things?
I wasn’t replying to anything that mentioned color.
Yes, you were. The comment you responded to was asking whether coloured printing is all that necessary in response to someone saying that while b&w laser printers may be cheap, colour ones aren’t.
Every single thing you’ve listed would be absolutely fine in B&W
Well OK yeah, for those you just need B&W. Color becomes useful when trying to impress. I’ve sent rent applications in color specifically because I know that the real estate agents are subjective. Some of the talks that I’ve held were helped out by coloring my notes while I was presenting. And some home crafts and activities (escape rooms with friends) were helped out several times by the color printer. Given that there isn’t a huge price gap in maintenance and initial costs, for me it was worth it.
The comment I replied to did being up the topic of colour though, just read the thread.
My response to that is that the average person doesn’t need colour printing, and honestly doesn’t even need to print at all with rare exception.
Based on your replies you are not the average person in terms of printer usage. So that’s why you had the responses that you’ve had. You’re just seeming to look for an excuse to argue?
“don’t buy ink”
“Who needs that anyway”
No explicit use of the word “color” or “colour”, or the opposite of b&w. Why can’t you just accept that when you’re not being explicit, you shouldn’t expect people to be telepathic and there will be misunderstandings? You could have just gone by and pass this misunderstanding, but instead you chose to gaslight here.
Lol, the comment thread you replied to is literally talking about color printers. The person you replied to said “How often does the average person really need that” with the ‘that’ being in reference to printing in color. Then you listed a bunch of stuff that doesn’t need color
No it does not. Some other comments parallel to mine do. But not the one I was replying to and neither was the article above. So unless my 2 different apps and the web version I saw show a wrong picture, I suggest you dial down your senseless confrontational attitude and try to act more like a decent human being.