If You Own a Printer, You’re the local Office Supply Store

Printer ownership is declining, less than half of all Americans now own a printer. This creates a weird social side effect: If you have a printer… Everyone else suddenly needs it.

Fewer households own printers now. Which means:

• friends ask you to print resumes
• family asks for shipping labels
• neighbors ask for forms
• schools assume “someone” can print

That someone is you.

You’re providing:

• ink you paid for
• paper you bought
• time you didn’t plan on spending
• troubleshooting you didn’t volunteer for

And if your printer fails?

Everyone’s stuck and you're on the hook to fix it.

It's like anything... when you're the person who has the specialty gardening tool or you're the only person on the block who can fix something, people come to you. That's not to say you're not a generous person, but with printing it's only going to get worse.

Which is exactly the worst use case for owning a printer. Printing isn’t a household staple anymore. It’s an on-demand task. And on-demand tasks work best… on demand.

You don’t need to be the neighborhood print shop.

No favors owed. No ink debt. No stress.