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While it is clear that a big printer is better and cheaper per page printed, that ignores the fact that the demand for pages printed will be much higher with a fast central printer than a slow local printer. People will send of 60 page prints just to see what is in them when the printer is fast and 50 feet away. If it is local and a minute per page, they will think twice. (I am not saying they won't ever print, just that often they won't). We have all centralized printers, and while I wouldn't go out of my way to change the situation, I wouldn't protest a change. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. In the end, I think the most important advantage of the central printer is the saving is desktop real estate. Daniel Feenberg
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