I found myself out for a walk today, when I realized I still hadn’t faxed a document to Palm that they need in order to cut me a check for my Palm Digital Media royalties. Fortunately, I had the document on my trusty Jornada, PrintBoy installed, and there was a Kinkos ahead only about one block off my route. A quick detour, and my royalties should be on the way, right?
Wrong.
I walk into the Kinkos, wait for someone to help me. When the guy walks over, I ask where the IR-capable printers are.
“What?”
“I need to beam a document to a printer,” I explain. “So I can fax it. I have it on my Pocket PC.”
“I’m sorry,” the guy says. “We don’t have anything like that.”
So I walk back into the blistering sun, no royalty check in sight. And I start to wonder…
What the heck kind of a “document center” doesn’t have at least one IR-equipped printer in the 21st century?!? I could maybe understand Bluetooth, but IR is hardly new technology. A single $70 Infra-Ready adapter– what I use at home– would have solved the problem. Not only did Kinkos lose a customer, but now I’m ranting to you guys about their Luddite ways…
Sheesh…
And yes, I realize I could have used J2 to fax from home if I only had a scanner, a decent model of which I could buy for under $100. I’m still repairing the damage incurred during my long stint of unemployment, and not in that financial league. I’ll just have to print it out from here and fax it on my way home from work tomorrow.
What a waste of a good opportunity for mobile technology…
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