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The White House Finally Got Color Printers (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article on Gizmodo: Everyone loves an upgrade -- even POTUS. The New York Times reports that the White House has recently undergone a technological transformation, though it may not sound too impressive to many of us: Its employees are now equipped with modern laptops, iPhones and even... color printers. [...] Employees have new computers with "fast, solid-state drives and modern processors," according to the newspaper, along with color printers. There's a new phone system and many staff now tote iPhones. The Wi-Fi has been upgraded, so it's now fast enough to live-stream video. And security has been increased too, with a new software system for managing visitors and a chip-based card system which is used by staffers instead of passwords.
"This was, how Stalin learned, Roosevelt does not have much longer to live"
Was there a reason for those comma's or do you just like to sprinkle them around?
Wait I get it, you're William Shatner. Hey everyone Shatner is on Slashdot!!
99% of the stuff that needs to be printed does not need color.
Are you kidding? Have you ever seen a Powerpoint presentation printed in B&W? It's horrible. All of those important colored bars, dots and lines just blend into a sea of low contrast grey. It's bad enough when the data is just financial reports from a Fortune 500 company, but this is the highest level of the US government.
Just think if somebody printed out a map of the Middle East in B&W. It would be hard to differentiate borders - you might end up starting WWIII because you blew up the wrong country.
No, color in this case is cheap. The world has too many shades of grey as it is.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!