Here's another travel-related tip, this time from Bradford Benn, business development manager at Crown International (a manufacturer of power amplifiers and microphones). Bradford writes,

I travel quite a bit for work, and one of the things I do to save time at the airport is to print my boarding pass at the hotel ahead of time. However with some airlines, the time at which you print the boarding pass or check in impacts your place in the queue. This queue could be the boarding order (in the case of Southwest Airlines), or the queue for upgrades or flight changes (on an airline like United). So one of the challenges is being able to check in online, and print out the boarding pass at that moment.

I use the SnagIt printer to get around not being at a location with a printer, or even if I just want to do the check in from the comfort of my hotel room. I simply print to the SnagIt printer, and then I can save the boarding pass for printing as an image or PDF. When convenient I then take the file down to the hotel lobby on a USB memory stick (thumbdrive) and print it there.

Using a broadband card in the laptop, I have done this check-in trick while sitting in a car and someone else is driving, too!

Who knew that the SnagIt Printer would be used in so many clever ways. Thanks for the tip, Bradford!

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