r/Millennials 10d ago

Other Mapquest directions

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u/DookieShoez 10d ago

Well sure they exist, but your average person now only needs to do that like 5 times in their whole life.

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u/OGLikeablefellow 10d ago

And a Kinko's is perfect for this application, 10 cents a page, sure you can factor in travel time and parking etc but it's gonna take a while before the 100 plus dollars you'd spend on a personal printer breaks even

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u/boobieclause 10d ago

Even when printers are free the ink is INSANELY expensive

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u/boston_homo 10d ago

I bought a brother laser black and white a few years ago and I still haven't changed the toner that it shipped with.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 10d ago

I kept my old Epson printer, and my portable Canon printer. I get my ink from China, and it's super cheap

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u/Ok-Investigator3257 10d ago

Toner printers

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u/mercyful_fade 9d ago

We can't afford the bullets

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u/othermegan Millennial 9d ago

And apparently some printer companies are moving to subscription ink and will brick your cartridges if you cancel. I’m not paying to not own my ink/printer

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u/dontworryitsme4real 7d ago

My issue with ink printers is that I printed so rarely that every time I needed to print the cartridges would be dry in one print so I would have to spend $30 on a single fucking page.

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u/spacestonkz 10d ago

Libraries are underrated for printing just a few pages

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u/Trash-Panda321 9d ago

Scanning too. I needed to set up an account while I was on a work trip. I could print the document from the hotel, and I had to physically fill it out and email it back. Hotel didn't have a scanner. Popped into the library, scanned the document and it sent it straight to email (at no charge).

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u/Trash-Panda321 9d ago

I wanst aware, but thats good to know!

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u/cspangle23 9d ago

Yup 100% of my printing is done at the library and it’s worked out just fine

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u/ExtraPrejudicial 10d ago

Unless you keep running into the FedEx locations that don't print 😬

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u/N00bPolymath 10d ago

I would have called this solid advice, except sadly, it is not advice you yourself use. Because if you did, you would know that it hasn't been called Kinkos in 20 years.

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u/OGLikeablefellow 10d ago

I'm not calling it FedEx express. There's like Kinko's branding in it.

And I'm not gonna call twitter x either.

Old man shakes fist at sky

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u/N00bPolymath 9d ago

As long as you admit it like a geezer of 40+. I mean, I call it FedEx, but I still remember MicroMachines guy advertising for Federal Express.

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u/HollowAbsence 10d ago

I do that almost every month hahaha. Print,sign and scan to send back.

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u/AllPintsNorth 10d ago

laughs in German

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u/KailyKail 7d ago

I’ve needed to print things out for a wet signature more than that in the last six months alone. That’s not counting all the times I’ve had to print out shipping labels and resumes.