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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-30/covid-turns-printers-from-has-been-to-2020-comeback-kid
I had Bloomberg news on while doing housework wearing headphones the other day and heard this go by. Several parts of it grabbed my attention and have been difficult to let go of.
First, Lachappelle says "printer" but she means "all-in-one".
Second, the primary use mentioned is _printing shipping labels_.
Where is this data coming from? Not a good source! There is a link to the deloitte data and it does mention all-in-ones, but it does not mention printing shipping labels. It positions the return of the printer within the context of the return of paper books (and the underlying link for that claim points out something that deloitte leaves out entirely -- ebooks are declining as readers buy more and more electronic audiobooks. D'oh) and vinyl records (ha ha ha ha).
This all has weird implications for makers of all-in-ones and other printers. They do not make much on the home market for this stuff; otoh, maybe they can sell more computers to households that used to get by with a single PC and a few tablets for other people in the house.
I do sort of wonder what people are using printers for. I mean, I use mine a bunch -- and shipping labels are a consequential part of that use, probably the hardest part to replace. The rest of my use can be chalked (ha) up to a process for travel and remembering scheduled things that is not yet wholly digital, but is creeping that way.
I had Bloomberg news on while doing housework wearing headphones the other day and heard this go by. Several parts of it grabbed my attention and have been difficult to let go of.
First, Lachappelle says "printer" but she means "all-in-one".
Second, the primary use mentioned is _printing shipping labels_.
Where is this data coming from? Not a good source! There is a link to the deloitte data and it does mention all-in-ones, but it does not mention printing shipping labels. It positions the return of the printer within the context of the return of paper books (and the underlying link for that claim points out something that deloitte leaves out entirely -- ebooks are declining as readers buy more and more electronic audiobooks. D'oh) and vinyl records (ha ha ha ha).
This all has weird implications for makers of all-in-ones and other printers. They do not make much on the home market for this stuff; otoh, maybe they can sell more computers to households that used to get by with a single PC and a few tablets for other people in the house.
I do sort of wonder what people are using printers for. I mean, I use mine a bunch -- and shipping labels are a consequential part of that use, probably the hardest part to replace. The rest of my use can be chalked (ha) up to a process for travel and remembering scheduled things that is not yet wholly digital, but is creeping that way.