LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT
A delightful little visit unfolded in Betoota today as an individual who doesn’t own a printer just stopped by their printer owning mate’s place to say hi, that’s all.
Known as a central piece of machinery in the Great Ink Scam (1998 – present), desktop printers allow computer things to become real life, as explained by Betoota tech writer Dorothy Umbers (88).
In an increasingly paperless world where ink cartridges cost as much as a weekend blow out, fewer people choose to keep a printer at home with many instead choosing to use the free space to store all the money they saved on ink.
However, the odd physical resume or whatever new shit real estate agents are putting potential tenants through requires the use of a printer meaning printerless individuals such as Dan Cole (24) are forced to drop by their printer owning mate’s place just to say g’day and shoot the shit.
“Hey Brenner, how are you going buddy?” stated Cole, showing up at his mate’s door unannounced like it’s the 1950s.
“I was just in the area and I realised I hadn’t shown you this cool new USB stick that I’ve got.”
Sensing what was going on immediately, Blake Brenner immediately showed his ‘mate’ to the printer which he keeps next to a vending machine he had installed so he could make some of his money back.
“Only in black and white though.”
“You want a cup of tea? Kettle’s in the kitchen. Mate.”
MORE TO COME.
