Ain't Technology Wonderful

I think that is what I will have to do. But that isn't what Amazon said.

It seems that some customers must find printing a label beyond them. When I returned an item a couple of weeks ago, printing a label wasn't an option. I took it to the Post Office, where they scanned the QR code on my phone and printed a label that they stuck on the parcel. I haven't investigated how you go on if you don't have a phone, or have one that can't display your emails.

perhaps those people don't order from Amazon

I have always been able to print the label. Useful, as my 'phone is not a 'smart' phone, and does not receive e-mail messages.

Owning a printer is so last millennium.

That's probably why I have 4.

We've had 4, but serially rather than all at once. The first few tended to blow their PS after a small (3? 4?) number of years so this time we shelled out a few more notes for a Canon G6050. Now, after more than four years without needing to, I've just refilled the tank with black ink. The colours look like they'll do for another year.

Since this is a machine with tanks with what might be termed infrequent refill requirements, I don't mind buying Canon inks rather than compatibles.

Does duplex and has a scanner. What more is needed?

My Epson ET-2650 is coming up to 6 years and 2 boxes of paper. Print/copy/scan.

A3 paper?

Don't think I'ver needed to print A3 at home, ever. It has a rear feed, too, so I can print labels. I wrote my own AddressBook app for that, so I can skip already-used positions on a label sheet, f'rinstance.

That's OK. My everyday printer was manufactured in 1993.

Interesting. Whilst my printer usage has dropped, I still couldn't do without it. Not everything is suitable for display on a smart phone.

Particularly when the battery has run down. My wife has seen this happen twice on trains, when the inspector arrived in the carriage.

Whether they were genuine phone problems or not we do not know, but I've seen peoples' phones run down in less stressful situations. Apparently iPhones normally need charging every day, more often as the battery ages.

Crosswords are a lot easier when you have some “scribble space”. ;-) Our printer’s main use is for printing our crosswords these days. I also still prefer a hard copy of some documents when travelling as phone batteries and/or their internet connections are never 100% trustworthy.

I do acknowledge that’s it’s a bit of an age thing. Neither of my daughters have one.

Tim

I think a dead i-phone is a scrote's best friend... Returning to thread I took the bloody parcel in to the post office and they grinned and said 'Evri is it?' like they were expecting it...

I wouldn't have minded except I ticked the box saying 'pickup from address'- I am not that good at lugging parcels down the high street as I used to be...

And how are you going to print sticky labels for your tool cabinets?

No. I still have uses for mine. I admit that a full 'I only have a mobile' person can probably just about get by without one

Most of the time. That kind of person usually does not see the need to take a screen shot of a must-have document, which at least guards against loss of signal. It's not going to be easy to display an online ticket while underground, even the Elizabeth Line doesn't have mobile repeaters.

While sitting in the cafe of a park, some months ago, my son queried why I have coins in my pocket. He does not even carry notes.

An hour later we were in a different park, where parking payment was by phone or... coins. Fortunately I had enough for both of us, and the 'I told you so' just hung implicitly in the air, I didn't say anything.

Attending a trade exhibition in November, I apologised to the counter clerk when I checked in thatb I only had a paper ticket - rather than one on my phone. She said at least paper works!

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I just printed two posters advertising an event. Normally it's more likely to be something like a railway map.