"You need to buy a printer."
"No, I don't. Pretty much everything I do is electronic, all of my records are electronic, why do I need to print anything out?"
"No seriously, you need a printer."
"I've done quite well without one so far. The rare times I need hard copy for a letter or something, I just, er, steal office supplies."
"Go buy a printer."
"Look, you know me. I never throw anything out. Within six months, my life would be completely buried in paper."
"But you need one!"
"We've gone through this. On the computer, everything's sorted, searchable, and even if it's clutter it only takes up virtual space. Why do I need anything on paper?"
"Scribbling."
"Scribbling?"
"Yeah. You can't scribble on electronic documents. Some documents are easily editable. Some document formats can be annotated. Some let you 'cross items off' a list. Inevitably, though, this means you have to create a document with the specific intention of being editable, or annotated, or things-to-do-ish."
"...whereas any document can be printed out and scribbled on. You've got a point."
"Well, I am you."
"You are? Why am I talking to myself then?"
"Call it a literary conceit."
"Ah, I'm being pretentious again, aren't I."
"Hey, you said it, not me."
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Oh look, why don't both of you just quit your bitching and go buy yourselves a printer. Take it from one who was formerly printer-owning, but who is now printer-deprived: Printers Are Good.
What do you mean you need a printer? Your antiprinter self is right. There are enough printers out there that you don't need one of your own. Anything you need to print you can print elsewhere. If you need to scribble on something, scribble on blank paper and make notes.
Apple make printers, so it must be OK.
Maybe you don't need a printer, but one of these -- http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,5184,5787,00.html .
I've got one and and I love it to pieces. However, I haven't figured out how to print out documents I'm reviewing onto the special pen-ready paper.
That link to the pen is actually quite good. They are made by a company called anoto who are based in Stockholm. I did a presentation there for doing the testing or related software, (we didn't get it), and so had a go after the meeting. It is cool but you do need special paper for it, which costs of course :-)
Aren't printers dirt-cheap anyway? I dunno, over here it makes more sense to buy a new Lexmark printer than ink catridge refill.. but I swear by my laser printer! You should, too!
Can't live without my laser printer either.
I have an addiction to scribbling and I get a major headache when I have to read documents from my monitor (running @ 120Hz), though I can read and debug any amount of code without any pains or what so ever.
I think I have a mental block to read documents and stuff from monitors.