Paperwork for the kid's daycare. Sick kid needs a prescription? Get them mostly better at home, then print and fill a form authorizing daycare to administer prescription meds and deliver it (along with the eyedrops or whatever) when dropping off the kid. None of that has been digitized yet.
Shipping labels. Returning something you bought online? The merchant often will send you a shipping label to print and tape to the package. My wife chooses to buy a lot of clothes online and return the ones that don't fit.
Signs for when we host a large gathering of people. Sometimes it's to label garbage vs recycling (for the large number of aluminum cans, mostly). Usually it's to warn people that one of the cats likes to try and sneak outside, and please watch out and don't let him outside.
Certain government paperwork. While many things can be filled and submitted online, other stuff (passport renewals come to mind) need to be printed and physically mailed. This tends to be very infrequent, but the forms contain personal information. How much do you trust a print shop?
> Shipping labels. Returning something you bought online? The merchant often will send you a shipping label to print and tape to the package. My wife chooses to buy a lot of clothes online and return the ones that don't fit.
These can usually be printed by the clerk when you drop off the package here if you show the barcode on your phone. Means you need to drop off at a manned location though.
When I do the kind of work that involves technical spec sheets and papers etc I print them out. It's so much nicer having a copy on the desk instead of trying to view it in your monitor. It's basically an extra screen.
The last semi-regular thing I'd print were postage labels for when I sell stuff on eBay. But in the last few years it's changed, now I can just go to the post office with a QR code and it's all done.
Last time I did this, I printed, signed and sent only the last page, which had the signature on it. They rejected it because I didn't print and scan the entire document.
If they'll accept a PDF at all, just using a digital signature annotation in Mac Preview is sufficient for every use case I've found. The ones that won't accept this generally require physical hard-copy, not a scan.
I usually have to print at minimum 4 to 5 documents per year. They are almost universally the same things, and they're many many pages, but infrequent:
1. Tax return to mail
2. Other government forms to mail
3. Contracts
Unfortunately, while the majority of the things I do in my life are purely digital, this fails as soon as you interact with the government in any meaningful way off the happy path or interact with the legal system, in those cases hard-copy only with original signatures is required to get anywhere.
