Print management solutions

[Jack Drost]

LPT:One from Envisionware. We have been using it for 12 years and it works
beautifully for our students.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Huddleston, Paul <
PHuddleston at library.msstate.edu> wrote:

> At our Library, we have a lab with roughly 140 stations in it that all
> print to 4 printers at a central desk located in the lab.  As it stands,
> when a student prints, the job immediately charges their account and goes
> to the printer.  Our lab workers take those jobs and sort them on the
> counter according to the Student ID and place them on the desk where they
> are retrieved.  In a small setting, or one with a low print volume, this
> would be ideal and would work fine.  The nature of our lab makes it the
> highest volume lab on campus by a long shot.  Compound this with the fact
> that students wait until 10-15 minutes before the hour to print since that
> is when they leave to go to class and you can imagine the log jam that
> happens.
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> What product or solution are some of you using that have experienced the
> same thing as us?  We have looked at PaperCut for the backend management,
> but were wondering about the physical release stations that are able to
> take campus cards or even debit cards (which seems like a solution that
> would help with guest/visitor printing).  Are there some solutions that are
> affordable and effective at handling this?  We would like to think that
> this would be a way that students could print to a single queue and then
> the release station they choose would determine the printer that actually
> printed the job.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Paul Huddleston
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> Network and Systems Manager
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> Mississippi State University Libraries
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