We're also looking at this- we originally decided to get a photocopier and link it to the access control/membership cards for billing, but the quotes are coming back at over £5,000 for the unit, which is way over what we can afford. The photocopier guys do a great job of showing you the relative cost per print for cheaper printers, and they do have a point, but we'd never do the volume they estimate, and we're happy to charge our members a premium as we'd like to keep printing to a minimum anyway, most members won't want it day to day, but it'll be there for the odd time it's needed.
Be good to know what other people do for frictionless printer access (ie without driver issues) and billing/charging (I'll also ask Alex at Cobot about it) On Thursday, 7 March 2013 04:25:12 UTC, Michael Airhart wrote: > > Hello all and thanks for the many vibrant threads to learn from! > > I am the IT nerd for our space and am looking to find the most reasonable > to deploy solution for managing printing services. We do not current > charge for access to the printers (one B&W Multifunction laser and one > Color laser), but we do at least want to get an idea of who is using how > much. And we'd want to make it reasonably easy for people to actually use > the printers... (driverless printing perhaps?) > > The printers are already network connected (wired) > - Okidata MB491lp > - Okidata C330dn > > There are great solutions for hospitality out there, but you could easily > spend $1-2,000 to get started and then a monthly fee. > > If Cobot had cloud printing support we would be all over it. > > I looked at Google Cloud Printing and it's not off the table, but it's not > really a clean solution. > > Thanks in advance! > > Michael > > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
