[OPLINTECH] Survey re: Printers and scanning

[James Guilford]

Greg Syferd wrote:

> 1) For color printing (staff and public) are you using laser or
> inkjets?

For staff we currently have a limited number of color inkjets for 
Administration and Coordinators, a large format inkjet HP 1700 printer 
(11 X 17) that is networked, and a (donated) networked Xerox Tektronics 
Phaser color printer. No color printer is currently available to the 
public but if we do decide to offer color to the public, it will be a 
networked laser printer operated through our stored value card system 
(LPT:One). The color lasers from Minolta and HP both look good but we're 
not planning to acquire one soon.

> 2) Has anyone had experience with multi-function units and wants to
> recommend/not recommend a particular unit?

For staff (only) we have a number of networked Minolta Pi1501 
printer/copiers. These machines have proved to be excellent making good 
copies and prints with decent speed. General staff don't have individual 
printers in their back office areas, just one machine serving the whole 
office. The copier feature saves a lot of trips to the copy room in our 
very large building. I'd recommend these highly. Downside is that 
Minolta doesn't offer recycling of their print cartridges the way HP does.

We have no scanners available to the public at this time though we are 
regularly asked for them. We may add one or more, but dread the support 
issues that will arise. We have two scanners available to staff with one 
dedicated to our P.R. associate for publications work and have not 
investigated the use of a scanning feature on a multi-functional device. 
A large-format scanner will be added as a component of a local history 
digitization project.

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James Guilford, Technology Associate
Westlake Porter Public Library
http://www.westlakelibrary.org