Why Home-Schooling Families Print More Than They Think (And Why a Home Printer Still Isn’t the Answer)

Home-schooling quietly turns printing into a sporadic, recurring task.

Most parents think that modern homeschooling is done primarily on-screen or via textbooks and workbooks. This is true, but there's a 3rd element: printing. Worksheets, reading assignments, math drills, science diagrams, progress reports, co-op forms... it adds up fast. Textbooks are also VERY expensive to buy if you're purchasing them one-off (as opposed to in bulk like a typical school does), so sometimes printing is the answer there as well. The problem is your 10 year old, $50 bargain printer is not designed to print textbooks.

Most parents don’t realize how often they print until the printer stops working right before a lesson.

The problem is that sporadic but urgent printing is the worst possible use case for owning a printer. Ink dries out between lessons, cartridges run out mid-week, and troubleshooting steals time from actual teaching.

In today's digital age, most kids are already not too keen on sitting still for hours on end listening to Mom and Dad teaching them history. Even the kids that do enjoy it are not going to benefit from a break in the learning flow because the family printer jammed and they don't have the worksheets for the lesson.

Skip the printer drama. Plan your lessons, upload worksheets and lessons to Have It Printed when you need them we’ll print and mail them for you.