Print Volume - Secondary Schools

[smarties11]

Hi All,

 

I'm looking for some printing stats from secondary schools. If you have something like PaperCut and have these statistics, I'd be really interested to know...

 

• The number of pages your School printed between September 2023 and August 2024 - all printing, across all printers and photocopiers within your School
• The number of students on roll

 

We've had our eye off the ball with print volumes since COVID (stopped monitoring and recharging due to COVID 'catch up') and they just seem to be escalating; we've a new Reprographics contract in place now and are starting to bring that back into line, and now our focus is turning to the rest of the School's printing estate; with a view to going down a managed print & virtual queue route. We already have PaperCut.

 

I'm looking to get data from as many Secondary Schools as possible so I can see where we fit, as an average.....

 

Thank you 🙂

 

[machy]

School of around 700 Students, the "active users" in papercut shows 860 (inc staff)

 

1.6 Million Pages over that time period 

1.4 Of Which in grayscale

 

6 Printers 

 

Top 2 users after repo printed around 60k each

 

All of the top 10 print users have printed over 25k each

Edited April 1, 2025 by machy

[Olliedawg]

School of 620 students. Around 100 staff

 

1.5 million pages total

• 1.1 million greyscale
• 400,000 colour

 

[msi_school]

School of 1300 students 1821 active users in Papercut

 

6,166,177 Mono pages

  976,160 Colour Pages

 

7,142,277 Total Pages

 

12 Printers

 

After repro top user printed 500K

All top 10 printed over 75k

 

 

Edited April 1, 2025 by msi_school

[drutt]

*cough* *cough* *cough* *chokes on environmental impact*

 

roughly 900 students and 150 staff

Edited April 1, 2025 by cnewstead

[Rob_D]

1.6m pages,  approx. 14% colour and 62% duplex.

At the time we had about 1,100 students and 160 staff.

 

18MFDs (including the 2 big ones in repro), and 9 office printers.

Top 5 MFDs, outside of repro, do over 100k pages each. Repro MFDs do 300k and 200k.

[PotNoodleTech]

We managed covid madness entirely with no printing.  The teachers stil taught, the pupils stil learned.  It confirmed exactly what i said all along for the last 10+ years, that we do not need to print at all.

 

Sadly the laziness has set back in full force and were back to larger than pre covid volumes.  SLT have done nothing to combat it despite my once a year protests.

 

Realistically if the heateacher doesnt instruct the staff to not print and use google or whatever your fighting an unwinnable battle as grumbling about bulb hours per year in your line management doesnt actually have any effect on them up top as they dont actually give two hoots about bulbs or hours or trees.

 

1 million pages printed on 677,000 sheets of paper.  82% mono.

Edited April 1, 2025 by PotNoodleTech

[smarties11]

6 minutes ago, PotNoodleTech said:

1 million pages printed on 677,000 sheets of paper.  82% mono.

 

What is your number of students on roll, please? Thank you 🙂

[mthomas08]

2M pages a year.

1400 students.

 

Just don't look at our totals since PaperCut installation.

[PotNoodleTech]

18 minutes ago, smarties11 said:

 

What is your number of students on roll, please? Thank you 🙂

675

[Chalkey]

2.4M pages

approx 1600 students

approx 250 staff

 

1 repro machine

7 copiers

21 desktop printers

[nwkeene]

3.5M pages, 2.1M printed sheets, 96% greyscale (we force it), 4% colour, Reprographics accounted for 60% of printing.

2M printing, 1.5M copying, 1200 active users, 52 printers, 1700 pupils, approx 250 staff

78% Duplex, 22% simplex, averages to 9500 pages per day, 5800 sheets per day.

[Julian]

1 Sep 2024 to 31 Mar 2025

884,662 Printed pages 90% grayscales, 10% colour. Duplex 70%, single sided 30%

Reprographics accounted for 1/3 of the total, and Exam printing was a significant ammout of that.

1200 students 120 staff

13 large photocopies / printers (for follow me printing)

Papercut is used a combined staff / student, printing / photocopying management solution.

We use “follow me printing”, as forcing users to go and collect printing makes them think about if they need to print.

While student do print, compared to staff their usage is very small.

I have configured Papercut so that everyone has their own code, there are no department codes. so, printing/photocopying is all tracked to a person.

Department do have an account, and staff can select from the appropriate account for who is paying for their photocopying.

An automatic report each month tells each head of department who is spending the departments money. It is up to the HOD to manage their budget.

[aydee]

Secondary School 

~1500 Students + 200 Staff

2.42M pages

2,271,975 (93.4%) Mono , 149,464 (6.6%) Colour

19.8 Trees and 7.2 Tons of CO2 (not seen this stat before, its crazy!)

[Warwick_Tech]

Group	Color Pages	Grayscale Pages	Duplex Pages	Simplex Pages	Total Printed Pages	Jobs	Cost	Avg. Pages	Avg. Cost
[All Users]	63508	508941	400504	171945	572449	40854	15463.83	14	0.38

 

1000+ Students 150+ Staff - Mid+ sized Secondary

 

I thought it would've been a lot more somehow....

[3s-gtech]

1100 users:

 

593,876 pages printed.

 

This doesn't include any copying, that's just prints.

[machy]

i found a slightly more terrifying way of quantifying the printing and have added this to my Email signature 

 

On Printing:
Between Jan 6 & April 4 2025
We printed Around 436900 Pages
This is enough to carpet the entire building with a layer of paper (33k SQM)
Or Run a role of paper from here to MAT HQ AND BACK as the car drives (141KM Length). 

 

[Boredguy]

1.8 million pages for about 1000 users, but likely closer to 2 million as we had a glitch on our Rioch mono copier where it wasn't reporting the photocopy jobs back to Papercut until we spotted it in the middle of the year.