Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Re: Printing Strategies

Laser printer in every classroom? Yikes!! Makes me wonder how much these
schools budget for printer supply costs.


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Fred Austin
<faustin@theoakwoodschool.org>wrote:

> Brandon
>
> We have evolved our printing plan into this structure:
> There is a high volume BizHub Color Copier networked in each division.
> Each classroom does have a B&W laser.
> One of the Media Centers has a Color Laser.
> Each administrator (except me) has one in their office.
>
> We utilize this strategy:
> Use the copiers for most of your printing needs.
> The classroom printers are to be used sparingly.
> The Media Center is for use by the science lab next door for color
> printing, where the copier is generally not available to students in that
> building or for backup when the BizHub is busy/down.
> The administrators still use the BizHubs unless confidential (we could use
> a security locking feature on BizHub - but as Tim responded that's another
> story)
> We also emphasize the use of digital documents rather than hard copies on
> paper.
>
> Successfully, we have cut down on our laser toner use to 25% of what it was
> 5 years ago. The cost of the toner for the BizHubs are built in to the
> maintenance agreement, but is a mere fraction of what the laser toner is. We
> are working on paper usage and are managing smaller percentage of reductions
> each year. We are a PK-12 school that is 1:1 laptop from G4-12.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Fred Austin
> Technology Director
> The Oakwood School
> A PreK-12 Independent Day School
> Greenville, NC
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Brandon Watkins wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> We are trying to come up with a new printing strategy for our PK-12
>> school.
>> We currently have a mixture of b/w laser and many inkjets, all teachers
>> have
>> a printer in their classroom and each building has several laser printers
>> that can be printed to.
>>
>> Would like to know what other schools are doing as far as printing
>> strategies go?
>> Any input would be helpful.
>>
>> Thank You,
>>
>> Brandon Watkins
>> Director of Technology
>> The Independent School
>>
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