Paperless office.

[Ian Robinson]

What ever happened to it ?

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

They used stripper and then painted the walls?

We'll never have a paperless office as long as accountants, lawyers, and the tax office demand hard copy, and softcopy readers aren't as cheap, disposable and convenient as real books and paper.

[bojan]

If by paper you meant a non-rewritable media on which the information is stored to be displayed permanently, then paper-less office is never-to-be.
Even if we use soft-copy readers, this is is the same thing in principle as paper.. only different materials are used to manufacture it

[Barrykgerdes]

Originally Posted by bojan

If by paper you meant a non-rewritable media on which the information is stored to be displayed permanently, then paper-less office is never-to-be.
Even if we use soft-copy readers, this is is the same thing in principle as paper.. only different materials are used to manufacture it

History shows that "Hard copy" (chiselled in stone) is nearly permanent. Older paper has occasionally survived. Mylar punched tapes and cards etc., last a while but who can read MFM hard disks, 8"Floppies these days.

Barry

[DavidU (Dave)]

I have more paperwork than ever in my office. Anyone want some paperwork?

[okiscopey (Mike)]

The paperless office will happen soon after the paperless toilet.

[Ric]

Originally Posted by okiscopey

The paperless office will happen soon after the paperless toilet.

Good one Mike

[Nesti (Mark)]

We would use far less paper if we went back to ledgers etc.

BTW, I can create on PC, but cannot edit properly on PC...I always miss things...so I edit on hard copy.

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Its funny for me to see a thread with this title.
I am always having a whinge about the "paperless office".

I tried many times to save paper ( goodness knows the amount of junk mail we receive far surpasses any savings I alone could make ).

However, I still tried, and here is an example, from which you may get a laugh.

Being an Electrical Technician, I used to have service jobs sent to me via fax.

ie: 1 x piece of paper.

I thought I could get smart you see, so I aksed the company who faxed jobs to me, to instead send my jobs via email .

However , when I needed to print out the jobs from the email sent, it printed out on 3 x bits of paper instead of 1 as it used to via fax....
1 x for the header, 1 x for the job and 1 x with something across the bottom of the page that I didnt need anyway.

I tried to make the emailed jobs smaller to fit on one sheet, but the stupid machine printed the email on one sheet and then spat out a 2nd page still with nothing on it except for a few meanigless letters etc at the bottom of the page.

What chance do we have with the paperless office I ask....

Now I just give up and only print when absolutely necessary, and make note pads for work notes out of the otherwise wasted paper, so at least it has a 2nd life of sorts.


geoffro