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Re: student-owned laptop printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Dustin)
Fri Jul 15 16:17:08 2011
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:15:14 -0400
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From: Jon Dustin <jdustin@USM.MAINE.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <5b363ccd-5293-4f21-ba43-89a2c889085f@esslama.earlham.edu>
My plan is to configure the "follow-me" printing feature in Papercut, and installing the same model printer around campus. This way students install ONE driver, then the Papercut client asks which printer they want the job to be sent to.
Thanks for the responses!
>>> On 7/15/2011 at 4:05 PM, in message
<5b363ccd-5293-4f21-ba43-89a2c889085f@esslama.earlham.edu>, "Randall K. Kouns"
<kounsra@earlham.edu> wrote:
> I agree with TJ... that is what we are doing at Earlham and it works great...
> the side benefit if you use release stations on every printer, the student
> can send it to whatever printer on campus they feel is the closest to where
> they are going.
>
> Regards,
>
> Randy Kouns
> Manager User Services
> Earlham College
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "TJ Higley" <tj.higley@gmail.com>
> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:57:23 PM
> Subject: Re: student-owned laptop printing
>
> Why install printer drivers on student-owned devices? Why not use PaperCut's
> web print functionality? Students submit their doc via web. And it requires
> no driver install since the job rendering is done on your server.
>
--
Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME 207-780-4152
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