[OPLINTECH] Public Printing

[Bill Hardison]

I talked with a guy when I went to Internet Librarian from a company called
TBS who offer a "wireless" printing service that does not require users to
install print drivers, etc.  I don't have any experience with them just the
one meeting and a marketing email from him since.  But, the URL is
http://www.singlecard.com.  The process seems straight forward enough.
Instead of the wireless user sending a print job they actually send the
document to TBS who has a printing set up done with one of your networked
printers and "they" print the job "for" the patron.  The document is not
"kept" from what I understand.  He also seemed very interested in
group/regional pricing.  We haven't had enough regional interest to follow
up.

Just my 2¢ worth

Bill

Bill Hardison
Computer Services Coordinator
Northwest Regional Library System (NORWELD)
419-352-2903


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Greg Wheeland <
gwheeland at delawarelibrary.org> wrote:

> We are having more and more people come into the library with their own
> laptops and are wanting to print to our main public printer.  I was just
> curious how other libraries are handling this?  Right now I am having to go
> out and setup the printer on each laptop individually and it is becoming
> more and more work.  We are not using any kind of print management at the
> moment, but are looking to in the future.  Is there an easy way for the
> patrons to just "search for local printers" and have it be at the top of the
> list?  Or maybe when they join the wireless network it would install the
> drive then?
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>
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> Greg Wheeland
> Technology Specialist
> Delaware County Library
> Work: (740) 362-3861
> Cell: (740) 272-1191
> Gwheeland at delawarelibrary.org
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