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by fiores 1975 days ago
Hello HN,

I built an online service that prints PDFs through ClickSend.

I stopped owning a printer years ago because I it bothers me seeing it on the desk, and because the thought I might run out of ink scratches my OCD bad enough that I don't print stuff.

This might be one of the top five problems I had over the past decade+ that are unsolved in my life. I drove to Kinko's so many times to print stuff, brought the USB with the ext3 filesystem on it and had to drive back to reformat to vfat, or forgot the name of the file I uploaded on my webserver. Now I live in cold NYC. When my local print guy shut down, the next closest one is 15 mins away of walking in the freezing cold to print a flight itinerary.

I used Staples.com for a while (small fonts in their UI but it works) until they jacked up their prices.

I want to reduce the prices and initially built this over Lob until I found out Lob always adds barcode watermarks on their prints. Lob can't print and mail a blank page.

Love to get your feedback.