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Nick G 🇪🇺

I had neighbour come to me with a printed document which was too light to fax (came out white at the other end). So I scanned it in, darkened it in Photoshop and printed it out the darker version so it would fax properly.

I took it round to him and I noticed the same document was actually open on his computer! Turns out he was printing it out on a printer which had run out of ink.
The person requesting the document had actually emailed my neighbour asking for a copy of the document in the first place, I simply showed him how to email it back... No reason at all for either a printer or a fax to be involved :)

I don't think he ever actually understood what I did, or why I never did anything with the paper copy I had printed.