世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Research recently took a look at the lightly related topics of web sites and photograph printing.

Demographics

Between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September 2011 1,010 computer-using and mobile phone-owning members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.3% of the sample were male, 16.8% were in their teens, 20.5% in their twenties, 19.6% in their thirties, 21.4% in their forties, and 21.7% in their fifties. Furthermore, 50.7% used standard mobile phones and 49.3% smartphones, 54.8% had laptops as their primary computer at home, 44.9% with desktops, and 0.4% with tablets.

I print out stuff about once a month or so, usually emails; before you condemn me for wasting paper, in my defense they are emails from my mother and I translate them with the in-laws. Perhaps if I had a smartphone, or even a tablet, I could save a sheet of paper or two a year…
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My Canon is a single-function inkjet, so I’m quite close to the norm according to this survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into inkjet printers.

Demographics

Between the 6th and 12th of January 2011 1,060 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.8% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.7% in their twenties, 20.2% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older.

I plan to upgrade shortly as the print head is getting a bit worn out, and although the head can be cheaply replaced, I’d like to get a Brother so I can interchange ink cartridges with my multi-function phone/fax/printer/scanner/SD card printer/kitchen sink.
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Having looked recently at the computer recycle law, here’s a related look with iBridge Research Plus, reported on by japan.internet.com at printer disposal.

Demographics

On the 10th of May 2010 300 members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.3% of the sample were male, 13.0% in their twenties, 33.3% in their thirties, 29.7% in their forties, 15.3% in their fifties, and 8.7% in their sixties.

In Q1SQ2, note that most local authorities have separate collections for unburnable rubbish and large rubbish. Some places charge for certain kinds of large rubbish, and some places also try to recycle the large rubbish, although I haven’t a clue what happens to the unburnables.

My local authority says that printers can be disposed of for free as large rubbish, although my last place charged 300 yen, so when I had a printer to throw away I dismantled it and chucked it out bit-by-bit…
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With the busiest season for home printers upon us, this survey from goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into home printers has some interesting figures about what people are doing with their printers.

Demographics

Between the 2nd and 7th of December 2009 1,052 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.1% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older.

I’ve set this translation up in my publishing queue as instead of working on my blog tonight I too am printing out my nengajo New Year postcard addresses for the coming Year of the Tiger on my five year old Canon.
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With the busiest season for home printers coming up, namely the creation of New Year cards, it is quite timely that goo Research, as reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at printers at home.

Demographics

Between the 18th and 20th of November 2009 1,093 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.4% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I’ve read stories than in the US ink jets are so cheap yet cartridges are quite expensive, people just throw away the whole printer when they run out.

I post all my empty cartridges into Yodobashi Camera’s recycle box. Checking my local rubbish collection rules, I see that the cartridges are burnables, so in Q3 are about one in five incorrectly disposing of their items? It also mentions in the notes column that if possible, one should use a recycle box at the shops.
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japan.internet.com published the results of a survey conducted on the 11th of November amongst 330 members of JR Tokai Express Research’s internet monitor group on the topic of printers. 67.3% of the 330 people who completed the private questionnaire were male, 21.8% were in their twenties, 43.0% in their thirties, 26.1% in their forties, 6.7% in their fifties, and 2.4% in their sixties.

Q1 is confusing as how does someone not know if they have a printer at home or not! I like my home Canon, mostly because the separate ink cartridges for each colour works out cheaper in the long run. However, I’ve heard (but not quite calculated the exact costs myself) that it is cheaper to order digital camera photo prints rather than running them off yourself, although the convenience aspect perhaps outweighs the cost saving.

In Q3, I’m not really sure why people would have a printer connected to their PC by more than one means, but apparently up to 6 people do.
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