You can pay extra if you need to print a lot of documents, which could be helpful if you deal regularly with contracts, or if you want photo quality prints, which can be helpful for posters or flyers. Printers are both smaller and cheaper than they were even a decade ago, and more of them come with built-in copiers and scanners to help you avoid the need to run to Staples or Kinko's. Even if you aren't running a small business, more and more of us are working from home nowadays, so it can be useful to have a small printer around. Kids often need printers handy for school papers and projects. If you have a home office, you’re probably going to need to print out documents, memos, contracts and the like. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need paper at all.
One of the best jokes on The Office was when Michael Scott made a local advertisement that bragged that his company had “limitless paper, in a paperless world.” And yes, the truth is people don’t need paper like we used to.
