The printer is down again. A generation of holdouts confronts the stress of printerless life. “When you need it, you need it.”
“When you need it, you need it,” says Leigh Stringer, who works at architecture firm Perkins&Will helping companies design sustainable offices.How much of our lives have we given to the mad dash of trying to find a working printer?mean we’re in the office, with its gleaming fleet of equipment, only a few times a week. So too, it seems, is the IT department, which has yet to fix that combination printer-scanner-fax closest to your desk.
Where there’s a problem, there’s a business opportunity. Tyler Eshleman was wandering through a dorm at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University his freshman year when he came across two intrepid roommates. They’d purchased a color printer and were charging students to print out term papers, reading assignments, even entire textbooks.“I wish I would have gotten in on something like that,” Mr. Eshleman says, noting the pair was turning a profit.
“Some point, you buy an apartment, house, car, second house or a boat. Then maybe you think about buying a printer,” he reasons.Printing at the office comes with its own struggles. Terri Barris of Ontario, Canada, once found herself sending off confidential tax documents, including her pay information, to…where exactly?
After a year of mounting printing difficulties, her manager bequeathed his personal printer to her. She loved it. So did everyone else. Her colleagues would line up at her door, bearing chocolate chip cookies and candy, wondering if she could print their documents.A weekly look at our most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories on the business of life.Some printer hookups can reach their limit.
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