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Started by Mary Molinaro
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
Re: charging for printing
Author: Mary Molinaro
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Well, we have just put the finishing touches on a huge installation where we are charging for printing in all of our public labs and in the Library. We started on this project in May -in May we weren't even sure this was possible in our environment - and as I said, we just have completed the install. We have learned a lot from this and I am in the process of formally writing this up, but basically here's the scenario. We have 17 labs on campus (plus the library), a mixed environment (Macintosh, WIN95, varieties of unix including NeXT, SUN, and HPUX), Novell 4.1 and 3.11 (mostly 4.1), about 1200 client seats. You get the picture! The printing is ALL routed to some WinNT printservers that in turn display the print jobs on print stations by the printers. The student walks up and swipes their id card (ours uses the Griffen system), the station tells them how much money they have in their account, they select their print job, the station tells them how much it will cost, they click print and the job goes to the printer and the amount is deducted from their account. The vendor is handling EVERYTHING including loading paper and toner. They are extremely service oriented and we love them already. We examined other options (including tackle boxes of change under the desks - which I ruled out from the start!) and other vendors and we are really happy so far. We have been able to add color printing at $.50 per page ( b & w is $.10). There are some things that we could have done differently (telling the students ahead of time would have eliminated a lot of ill will) that would have made a difference, but all in all it has come off without a hitch. The vendor that we found is CDP Imaging Systems in Minneapolis who partnered with Pharos (whose product Uniprint makes all of this possible). I will write more later and would be happy to answer questions if you have them. Mary _________________________________________ Mary Molinaro University of Kentucky Libraries University of Kentucky 216 A King South Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039 606-257-6199 molinaro@pop.uky.edu
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