[Web4lib] Question about electronic printing and an end to paper and/or plastic print/copycards

[Harvey Melinda]

Our main library uses the plastic print cards, but it was too pricey for the smaller branches when you factored in all the extra equipment.  One branch went with pay at the circ desk, and two of us use the photocopiers as printers.  Basically the photocopier has to be networkable, the copier is connected to the campus network, and each computer is assigned a name.  Students send the print job to the copier, put in their money, select the job, and it prints.  You can have the copier set up so that the job automatically deletes after it is printed, or you can clear out the buffer manually.
Melinda Harvey

Reference Department,

McClellan Library, 

Gadsden State Community College

256-238-9352



 "In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim."  Linton Weeks

--- On Sat, 10/10/09, D. Turcotte <electrum05 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: D. Turcotte <electrum05 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Question about electronic printing and an end to paper and/or plastic print/copycards
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:16 PM

Hello,

Are you using an electronic type of print/copycard system instead using
paper or plastic cards? The supplier our Library has used in the past no
longer produces the paper cards used for our card reader, and we cannot
reprogram plastic cards on our card reader, so our Library is seeking an
alternative solution.