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Planet Money

Why Printers Are The Worst

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.629.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

This is Planet Money from NPR.

0:07.0

This is a story about what happens when you get between a grandma and her grandkids.

0:12.6

The grandma in question is Dolores Williams.

0:15.3

Can I ask how many grandkids you have?

0:17.5

I have at the moment 14.

0:20.5

You have 14 grandkids.

0:22.8

It's wonderful, yes.

0:24.8

It's 2015 when the story starts.

0:27.3

Dolores is retired and she's living in Washington State.

0:30.5

I was off the grid almost.

0:32.8

You were living in the woods.

0:34.5

Basically in the woods.

0:36.2

Far away from those beloved grandkids.

0:38.4

So Dolores wants photos of those grandkids everywhere.

0:41.9

And to save herself money and time and frustration, she wants to print the pictures herself.

0:47.0

So she goes shopping for a new printer and she's a very savvy technology consumer.

0:51.8

She worked in IT for a decade.

0:54.2

Because you were the one who had to go open up the printer and make sure it worked.

0:57.9

Yes.

0:58.9

And take it apart sometimes and put it back together.

1:01.2

I was very good at doing that.

1:03.7

She shops around and decides on an HP printer because she used them at work and she thinks

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