Home office – Essentials you may have left out

There are three reasons that people need a home office. First, for work. Whether you’re self-employed or on the payroll, a fully functioning home office is something you will crave after the second day of sitting on the sofa with your laptop getting hot on your knee. Second, for your creativity streak. Building a blog or putting together a portfolio of your latest photography isn’t something you can do very meaningfully whilst sitting in your garden, struggling to see the screen from the glare from the sun. And third, because you have space and nothing else to do with it but throw in a table, a chair, a lamp, laptop, and potted plant. That’s it. Simple. Beats the pants off using the spare room as a hoarding space for junk. However, there are a couple of things that every home office needs that people tend to forget about until it’s too late. Let’s take a look at the home office essentials you may have left out.

Low on cyan

Your printer likes to tease you. It’ll work, sometimes. Other times, not so much. Depending on what mood your printer is in, you might just be able to print some things today. But wait. What’s that? Low on cyan? You only want to print in black ink. You don’t need any other colours. But your printer won’t hear of it. Ink doesn’t last forever, and not having a replacement cartridge can slow down your whole day by hours. A small thing, perhaps, but one that will make you really happy to realise you took care of, when the ‘low ink’ time comes. See https://www.printerinks.com/1/2p-n-011/inkjet-and-toner-cartridges/brother/ and stay on top of your inky needs.

External drive 
For most people wanting to run a home office, looking into the costs of renting online storage space for the purposes of disaster recovery is probably a bit far-fetched – although, if you are running a personal business from home, the opposite is true (this kind of service can be a lifesaver when it comes to unresponsive hard drives). But there’s no need to go that far if you don’t mind losing a certain amount of data between backups. Storage devices are relatively low cost and are available from all good vendors of quality IT equipment. Even 1TB of storage will be enough to keep you in daily backups for most types of files for years to come.