What’s the worst thing about working from home? Surely it’s having to use the personal printer, which is the most detestable piece of technology ever invented.
We have the technology to print in 3D, and yet when it comes to printers in our homes, they appear to be virtually unchanged since they were first sold in 1981. We all have our tales of woe with them. I have many, too many for here, but doubtless they will be familiar to all – the unclearable paper jam; the paper jam that has been cleared but the printer maintains has not been; the insistence that the printer is not connected; the printer that takes half-a-day to warm up in order to print just one page before revealing that it is out of ink; the printer that mysteriously requires a new magenta cartridge to print a monotone document; the unexplained stripes that appear down every page which can never be got rid of; the paper tray that can never be inserted to the printer’s satisfaction… The issues are endless.
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