OT: Printer Suggestions

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If you can afford it, train one person in the area (or have a roving operator)
to see to the care and feeding of the public area printers.  Check
them daily for
toner and that the trays are full of paper.

Sometimes toner levels can be checked remotely or the printers can email
alerts when something is wrong.  Set up all the bells
and whistles so it reduces printer management load.

I think you will still have a few that insist on inkjets on their
desk.  You might
find a way where IT or 'shared services' pays for the 'shared printers' and
user departments get stuck with a bill for all the 'desk' printers.  Managers
like to keep their dept budgets down while using 'others' resources.  But make
sure that upper management sees that this is reducing overall cost to
the organization,
not just empire building.

But changes like this all depend on your corporate culture.