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I have one major use-case for (very cheap) inkjet printers: on the beach. I run a non-trivial number of beach volleyball tournaments[1], and the beach is not a terribly hospitable place for electronics.

So I carry with me a cheap printer that's light to carry. If it takes a fast-moving ball that breaks off a part, or it gets overloaded with sand, dust, destroyed by rain, whatever, it's no skin off my back, since it was just $30.

So far the same crappy printer has been serving me for about 4 years in this capacity.

Toting around a laser printer would be a huge pain in the ass.

Otherwise, I'm completely onboard with the overarching sentiment: there's not a lot of reason to own an inkjet printer.

[1] My flagship product (http://bracketpal.com) is a tournament management system, and beach volleyball is the niche I focus primarily on.

[collyw]

How do you power it? Are there battery powered printers these days?