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People still use printers?
Why, what are you doing, carving your documents into a clay tablet with a reed?
All my documents are digital these days. I think I've actually had to print a document maybe like 5 times in the last 10 years and even then the people who I had to give them to agreed that it was a huge pain in the ass lol
I recently had to fax a document to the government, which meant I had to print the thing, then pay $12 at OfficeMax to send it. Absolute bedlam.
From time to time I have to sign a form that specifically says "Print and sign, no digital signatures"
I use Adobes "draw a signature" feature to do my squibble, then place it on the signature line taking at least a little care to make it look handwritten (So like a portion of my signature is dipping below the line etc.). Finally I print to PDF (Even if it is already PDF) and email that or use one of those fax apps if fax is absolutely required.
I haven't had any such forms rejected (Well, at least not for "improper signature" or whatever) and I've been doing it on forms for well over a decade now lmao
Same happened to me two years ago. I signed up for a 30-day trial with one of those e-fax companies and after the doc was sent I cancelled. To be fair, my work had an account with that service so I already knew about it - but I knew I didn't want to pay a buck a page just to pay my taxes... Hopefully you don't need this advice in future but maybe it can come in handy just in case!
I am always pissed off when someone sends me a document to print, sign, scan and send back. You are still missing your stupid fax machine, don't you?
I have no printer because it's not worth the upkeep, so I have to walk down the street to a copy shop and print, sign, scan and send back my personal data there.
Thank you, fax machine person.
Across the street, lol. I don't even have a copy shop in my town.
Fuck PDFs! Send HTML!
Is pasting in your signature digitally not an option? That's what I've been doing all my life, but then again the area where I live is quite progressive in terms of technology.
On a related note, someone should make an image filter that makes digital documents look like they've been scanned in. Would save a ton of paper and people's time lol.
Problem with that is that simply pasting your signature is in no way legally binding. Someone could crop your signature out of a random document and then sign a bunch of papers with it.
With a paper copy you're supposed to keep the hard copy (and so is the other party, that's why you always sign in doubles).
Hell even printing, signing and scanning is quite vague in terms of legal value... You'd have to actually send the original hard copies by mail to be 100% covered. (With a registered letter at that).
Digital signing will supposedly make this whole process easier, but doing that digital signing can only be executed by a small amount of certified organisations. (As in everyone can digitally sign something with their own keys, but it won't be legally recognized)
Not a lawyer, just someone who tried to figure out how signing legal documents works to include it in an inhouse program at work
sadly
I print a lot of study stuff on my job printers. I know is bad, but I can't really study in a screen.
Yes some of us still touch grass.
and we go 20 miles in the snow both ways to touch said grass, because I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time.
Nineteen dickety two
Why are a giant laptop or a monitor the only options? I read recipes off my phone all the time! No fancy set up required, I just read it while I'm cooking! I still don't see how any of this is related to your original statement about "touching grass" though
Just need to scroll through 800 lines of garbage back story and hope they use the keep screen alive toggle! And it's super easy scrolling with shit on your hands!
Not everything is made better by a 6 inch screen.
Or you could just screenshot the recipe... Still not clear on what any of this has to do with "touching grass" though
๐๐ phones easier
Whatever you say dude, at this point I'm going to assume the comment about "touching grass" and everything after that is some kind of failed attempt at trolling lol
You have a nice day now
I fail to see how the one thing is related to the other ๐
I threw mine of the balcony when it refused to print again.
I'm not even kidding. It felt amazing. (I did clean up the mess tho)
I dismantled several cheap inkjet printers for parts. There are countless useful parts inside for my future DIY projects. 24-volt power supplies, several motors, pulleys, belts, hundreds of small bolts.
Sometimes don't have a choice, at least here in AU there are lots of government institutions that still only accept paper copies of certified documents either snail mailed or physically handed in
Yes. I rarely print documents, but as a hobby arts and crafter, I do print of lot of stuff for my projects. Screw inkjets, but they do have a really high resolution in photo mode, which is the only reason I haven't ditched my nightmare printer for a laser yet.