Am 23.02.2012 18:38, schrieb Warp:
> clipka<ano### [at] anonymousorg>  wrote:
>> Print out invoices for the clients of some freelancing business?
>
>> Print out stuff which freelancers are legally obliged to archive for 10
>> years on paper unless they own a WORM drive for that purpose?
>
>    I doubt he runs a freelancing business.

I was listing uses that I have (or had) myself for owning a printer, 
presuming your statement to be a generic "nobody needs printers these days".

>> Print out something to read while traveling by train or lazing on the couch?
>
>    That's what handheld devices are for. ;)

I prefer printed A4 for certain texts. Not to mention that I currently 
don't have the money to buy a smartphone or the like (used to have one, 
but it got stolen quite some time ago), and actually don't need one 
anyway, because - guess what, I own a printer :-P

As long as handhelds don't allow you to just put your thumb between any 
pages you choose, and/or come at a price where you can own two or three 
of them to arrange in front of you, I guess I'm going to stick with 
paper for certain uses.

>> Print out character sheets, rulebook excerpts etc. for pen&  paper
>> roleplay gaming sessions?
>
>    I have got the impression he doesn't play such things (at least not as
> a DM).

I actually do that as a player. It helps with quickly looking up rule 
details for my character's abilities and magic items taken from some 
obscure extension rulebook, maybe with added notes about certain 
parameters as applicable to the character.

>> Print out charts and then scribble some notes on them?
>
>    Charts of what?

When I look at the left portion of my desk, I see a printout of the 
emission spectra of some typical RGB phosphors, with added hand-drawn 
lines & curves, and notes about how they might be approximated 
mathematically.

Similarly, a while ago I printed images of Penrose tilings, adding 
various colored lines to visualize how they could be defined 
recursively. Doing the same in Photoshop didn't quite cut it for some 
unknown ergonomic reasons.


As for Andy, one particular use I could think of would be to print out 
music sheets downloaded from the Internerds now and again.

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