It's already happening

Hewlett Packard and Lexmark both are retailing internet ready printers.

With Hewlett Packard a new owner goes to http://www.hpeprintcenter.com and registers the printer and then chooses apps for printing out of the printer.

With Lexmark a new owner uses the built-in screen to choose an RSS feed that automatically prints out content.

Home to Print

It's been a long time since the home printer was a new device. But this year 2010 it is.
Certainly Hewlett-Packard is leading this charge but Lexmark is in the race too at this point.
Both have internet-ready printers on the market. There are big differences.

HP gives you a slew of made-for-home-printing "publications."
Lexmark gives you access to RSS feeds to print.

But who needs to print? No one, really. It's expensive, that is the ink is expensive. (The printers are relatively inexpensive at $200, some of them). And whatever you can print, you could save time (and money) by just reading on your PC or on your smart phone.

So why print?

Because it's convenient. Every morning it's there. You just grab it and run.

Or maybe you want the record. Or maybe you need to show it to other people. Or refer to it several times during the day.

Or maybe you are one of the tens of millions who doesn't have a smart phone. Just a mobile phone, with texting, no doubt. So you want something from the internet delivered to you every day. Something to read, of length, longer than 140 characters.