RobFrain Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Hi I have been asked to look into our printer situation at our school. We currently just buy the printer, and then purchase compatible toners for them. We do run Papercut and I today ran a report. We have 14 different staff printers manly based in individual offices and 15 student printers in teaching rooms. Our monthly output is roughly 26,000 pages. I want to first concentrate on Staff Printers. Staff print 16,000 pages every month on their 14 printers. I'd love to get this down to 4 Staff MFD printers with Follow Me/Find Me printing. Has anyone got any experience with this? I believe papercut has a feature? What printers does it work with? How to staff authenticate? Regarding the printers - can anyone recommend any? Also thinking about leasing? Any help would be very useful. I'll then move onto the student printers!!!!
Edu-IT Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 We have multiple MFD's with follow me printing. Staff authenticate on PaperCut using their MiFare cards. Or they can use their network username and password. We use Ricoh for our MFP's.
TechMonkey Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Would it not be worth sorting out a proposal for both Staff and Student and then putting out a tender to various companies? You could then get a managed print solution covering the whole site. Thinking of the printers in terms of staff or students could be a bit limiting. We are currently in the process of consolidating our printing and getting rid of all but a few printers and having MFD devices everywhere else. Will save us a bomb!
RobFrain Posted November 19, 2014 Author Posted November 19, 2014 Would it not be worth sorting out a proposal for both Staff and Student and then putting out a tender to various companies? You could then get a managed print solution covering the whole site. Thinking of the printers in terms of staff or students could be a bit limiting. We are currently in the process of consolidating our printing and getting rid of all but a few printers and having MFD devices everywhere else. Will save us a bomb! Are there sites out there with cards for all students??? - Didn't think about that!
Edu-IT Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) Are there sites out there with cards for all students??? - Didn't think about that! Here. :-) We did about 60k pages last month across our fleet. Edited November 19, 2014 by Edu-IT
RobFrain Posted November 19, 2014 Author Posted November 19, 2014 Here. :-) We did about 60k pages last month across our fleet. Do you own all the equipment? Is it leased?
Edu-IT Posted November 19, 2014 Posted November 19, 2014 Do you own all the equipment? Is it leased? Equipment is provided as part of a managed print contract; so leased.
RobFrain Posted November 19, 2014 Author Posted November 19, 2014 Equipment is provided as part of a managed print contract; so leased. Can I ask who that was with? Any other suppliers out there want to quote for us? Cheers
mikkydoos Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 I moved everything from lasers to copiers, got Papercut... there is a Papercut client that installs on the PC, the communicates with the Papercut server. The copier connects to the Papercut server and present the users with a login screen. I cut our print spend down by 70% on toner alone, let alone paper.
Skibby Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 You could try Complete Imaging. They're based in Birmingham and they provide printers/copiers etc with managed service contracts.
mikkydoos Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 Can I ask who that was with? Any other suppliers out there want to quote for us? Cheers @RobFrain I used a B'ham company called Midshire Business Sytems. They absolutely bent over backwards to do ours at the right spec, price, Papercut setup, training etc. Really good service.
TechMonkey Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 I have had quotes from M2, Richo direct, Silicon Alley (who are on here) and Future Digital Systems. PM if you would like more details.
Haptic Posted November 20, 2014 Posted November 20, 2014 I'm sure we can help you out here Rob, shall drop you a PM. Thanks
Edu-IT Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 You could try Complete Imaging. They're based in Birmingham and they provide printers/copiers etc with managed service contracts. Now owned by Capita, for anyone who is interested. Capita acquires Complete Imaging Limited | Capita plc
fiza Posted January 12, 2015 Posted January 12, 2015 I would love to replace all our individual printers with strategically placed MFDs but we just don't have large enough communal spaces to do this.
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