[Technical] Types of printers you use in your K-6 classrooms?

[Alan Oh]

Hi Paul. In our setup, we have a printer server running Windows server
2003. WE have Ricoh mono and color laser, all network printers. We used
to have each primary classroom "own" a color inkjet but we rationalised
and put in the laser color and got rid of some of the inkjets. Where the
classes are further away from the laser color, we still have inkjets but
they are now shared 1 per 2 adjacent classrooms. These are using the PC
it attaches to as a print server.

We basically encouraged the teachers to print to the laser (cheaper) in
preparation for their classes. So far so good.


Regards
Alan Oh
 
Waverley Christian College
Tel: (613) 9871-8600 ext 605
www: www.wcc.vic.edu.au
email: oh.a at wcc.vic.edu.au

-----Original Message-----
From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Paul Williamson
Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 2:11 PM
To: Technical Discussion in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Technical] Types of printers you use in your K-6 classrooms?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently trying to decide on new printers for our Junior School.

To date we have had a colour bubble jet printer in each classroom for
these reasons:
- Students can remain supervised while colleting print jobs
- Cheap to purchase (but possibly not so in the long run)

These are just usb printers, shared from an XP Pro client machine
(introducing some more unreliability).

Now we have more computers in each classroom than before (so we are
exceeding the limit of 10 connections into XP in some cases), and where
we have tried using usb to network print boxes, these have also proven
unreliable.

So my thinking was to go with networked laser printers but shared
between a few classrooms - specifically Fuji Xerox C2100 or Lexmark C510
(we have an old one we could allocate).

I'm interested in how you setup your Junior class rooms and which
printers you use, and how often you have problems?

Many thanks,

Paul Williamson
Huntingtower School
Mt Waverley, Victoria

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