How Home Printers Waste Your Time, Not Just Your Money

Sure, there's financial costs associated with owning a printer...

There’s the cost of a printer.

There’s the cost of ink.

There’s the cost of maintenance.

But the biggest cost of all?

Your time.

Every time someone tries to print something at home, there’s a silent checklist happening in the background:

• Is the printer awake?
• Is it connected to Wi-Fi?
• Are the drivers updated?
• Is the paper loaded?
• Does the PDF need resizing?
• Does the ink need a “quick cleaning cycle”?
• Did the printer decide it needs a firmware update right at this very second?
• Why is it printing in grayscale when I told it color?
• Why is it telling me I'm out of cyan ink when the document I want to print is in black & white?

The average user wastes two to three hours a year dealing with printing issues, and that’s if they only print a handful of times.

And for many, the time waste comes in batches :

30 minutes here, 15 minutes there, an hour of troubleshooting once every 3 months or so.

If someone charged you $50/hour to “fix” a machine you barely use, you’d fire them .

But with printers, most people don’t even realize the time is gone.

It evaporates in small increments.

The real cost of home printing isn’t money., i t’s the hours of life you’ll never get back.

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