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Going back to pen and paper to reduce printing costs
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- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Mobile & Wireless
We just had our boiler serviced yesterday, and I noticed that the engineer has gone back to filling out a printed paper form with a traditional form of instrument called a pen.
For the last 7 or 8 years the engineers have been carrying around one of the Toughbook's with a portable printer and printing out the details of the engineer report. I've always actually been impressed with the way they set up the machines and printed out the reports. For such a large force of non-computer users (particularly 7 years ago) to be regularly using a laptop and portable printer to produce the reports was an interesting logistical and training issue.
Now it's more common place for people to have computers in their homes, the backwards step of returning to pen and paper is a bit odd.
The reason? The cost of the printer cartridges for the printer far exceeded the cost of pre-printing the forms and having the engineers fill out the forms by hand.
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