Print management solutions

[Kelli Staley]

We use PaperCut (public library) from TBS singlecard.com

They work with a lot of universities as well.  We're doing some interior
renovations, and when we move our equipment, we're adding a debit/credit
card reader to the print release station.



Kelli Staley
COSUGI Chair Elect 2015-2016


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Circulation, Collection and Computer Services Dept. Head
Lansing Public Library
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Lansing, IL 60438
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Jack Drost <drostj at uah.edu> wrote:

> 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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>>
>> Now, to my question:
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Huddleston
>>
>> Network and Systems Manager
>>
>> Mississippi State University Libraries
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