Any printers on your network are monitored. All users authenticated to
your Active Directory are tracked.
You can use it strictly to track usage (although there are free programs
that do this), but then also set limits by user or AD group. =20
You can also set page costs for black and white and color and then give
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Personally, I found that setting limits just frustrated the users.
However, my teachers are really spoiled, as everyone has a black and
white laser in their classroom and a color printer within their building
(shared by no more than five classrooms total). When I set limits,
there of course were "critical" things that needed printing and I had to
change the settings. It just got to be a nightmare. I finally, just
turned it off.
The biggest issue we have is students printing to the wrong printer (not
checking before printing), then just reprinting rather than walking to
the other classroom to pick it up. I actually don't have individual
student accounts but rather grade level. So, when I limited printing,
the entire grade level of students could no longer print. This didn't
work (and the teachers were really mad), so again, I just don't set
limits.
What I do is constantly remind students to check were they are printing,
and if they print to the wrong printer, go walk the 20 steps or so, and
get it off the other printer. I also send out each year the amount we
spend on ink and the page counts for the year. There are only 370 kids
at my school and we print over a million pages a year which costs about
$20,000 in ink.
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Barbara Share
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Subject: Printer software
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My IT person is suggesting that we look into software that would help
control the amount of unnecessary printing. I'm guessing this works by
one person controlling which jobs would go through to the printer,
thereby letting us delete the 2nd, 3rd , 4th and so on copies that
sometimes come through the printers and then are left.=20
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Do you any of you have this kind of software? How does it work, are you
happy with it, can you recommend what you use now?
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Also - do you charge for printing? Currently, we do not charge for
printing, but do charge (via copy card) for photocopies.
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And one more query - do any of you have a set up where the print jobs go
directly to the photocopy machine, thereby not even having printers.
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I appreciate any information you can send my way! =20
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Thanks for your time,
Barbara
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Barbara B. Share
Librarian
Ransom Everglades Middle School
2045 S. Bayshore Dr.
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
305-250-6882
305-854-1846 fax
bshare@ransomeverglades.org <mailto:bshare@ransomeverglades.org> =20
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