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by swalberg 3748 days ago
Over the past few months:

* Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government) * Printing homework or practice questions for my kids * Printing registration forms for the many places that aren't computerized * Faxed identification for various purposes * Faxed contracts for real estate * Scanned documents and identification for people that accept them over email * Scanned expenses

And that's not including my wife's use of it, who is a student and will regularly print off stuff to mark up by hand.

1 comments

> Printing tax forms (even if you do them electronically it is much easier to have a file folder of all your info should you get a query from the government)

I store them as PDFs and put them on a NAS that with backups to S3

> Printing registration forms for the many places that aren't computerized

Generally have found I can fill out the PDF and stamp a signature on it and it's fine.

> Faxed contracts for real estate

Same as above.

> Scanned *

Not a printer, I just use a phone app for 'scanning' documents.