[OPLINTECH] Wireless printing

[Dan Nixon via OPLINTECH]

Thank you, Phil. You've provided a helpful survey of the public library wireless printing landscape. Given the low frequency of demand for wireless printing here, we passed on PrinterOn as too rich. That leaves us with the hardest nut to crack, so to speak: the patron with smartphone plus document that might be a contract to sign and fax back, job application, photo of the dog, etc. And we can't direct them to our workstations because, guess what, they don't remember their email password to call up the attachment, etc., etc. Sound familiar? We have them email it to the library where we print it out ... . Sneaker-net. Never fails.
Dan
Wilmington Public Library of Clinton County
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From: OPLINTECH <oplintech-bounces at lists.oplin.org> on behalf of Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH <oplintech at lists.oplin.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 8:28 AM
To: oplintech at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] Wireless printing

Here are some more responses I got re: wireless printing and remote
printing that didn't go to the list:

One person says they use PrinterOn; it's pretty low maintenance once
it's set up.

Another person says they have an HP printer that can print documents
that are emailed to it and they let patrons email things to it to print.

Another person says they use PrinterOn and it works with Envisionware's
LPTOne print release station.

Another person says they use PrinterOn and it works with their Equitrac
print release station.

Phil


On 9/12/2017 8:37 AM, Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH wrote:
> I've received three responses so far to my question about wireless
> printing.
>
> One person said he just lets patrons' devices find the HP printers on
> the network; patrons can set them up in the normal way, and the printers
> support mobile devices (there's an HP app for Android, and iPhones seem
> to support Bonjour like Macs do).
>
> Another person said they use Envisionware's LPTOne and it works well,
> and they have only a small number of wireless prints per year, mostly at
> their main location.
>
> Another person said they had used Printeron.com (
> https://www.printeron.com/print-now.html ), which worked much better
> than the remote printing in Envisionware had. However, it was barely used.
>
> Also, I found an old message that Tom Casey sent to the list in Feb.,
> 2016 where he said that at Youngstown and Mahoning County they used the
> Pharos product for wireless and remote printing, which lets patrons
> upload something to a web site and print it in the library. He gave a
> link to this web interface:  http://print.libraryvisit.org
>
> Phil
>
> On 9/11/2017 9:19 AM, Phil Shirley via OPLINTECH wrote:
>> We offer the wireless printing from Windows and Mac laptops through
>> the SPOT software from Librarica (we also have CASSIE), but it gets
>> used very little. We supply a batch file for Windows and a script for
>> Mac to load drivers from a share, but apparently patrons often
>> encounter obstacles to adding our printers. In a way I'm not
>> surprised, because adding a printer to your computer is not completely
>> simple.
>>
>> Could anyone share their experience with SPOT or any other wireless
>> printing, and does anyone have any suggestions on making SPOT easier
>> to use?
>>
>> If nothing else, I'd be interested to know (1) do you offer wireless
>> printing to the public, (2) if so, how -- do you use SPOT or something
>> else, and (3) does it get much use?
>>
>> I've also heard of a product that lets patrons print by uploading a
>> document to a web server. That's interesting, and I'm going to look
>> into it.
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>>
>> Phil
>

--
Phil Shirley
Technology Services Coordinator
Cuyahoga Falls Library
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
330-928-2117, ext. 109
pshirley at CuyahogaFallsLibrary.org
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