Tom, The Scan to PDF is an important function. Where do you have the PDF files being sent? Does it just email them to the user or do you have an open file share it drops them on? I bought the Okidata MB491LP and love it so far, but am still tweaking the functions.
I am going to trial "Paper Cut". http://www.papercut.com/ I have emailed their sales department about trying to get something in between their Education and SME (small-medium enterprise) pricing. I mentioned the Coworking model and that we have 4,600 of us here all sharing ideas and we would all love to have a simple and affordable solution. No word yet, so please feel free to review their website and email them the same encouragement for Coworking Model prices. Tech Stuff: I am going to fire up a small (micro-ATX form factor) PC to run it on. I am not sure which of their supported operating systems I will run, likely a Linux variation since that is free. I will put the PaperCut into it's invisible pass-thru mode to start so I can see who is printing the most. As I learn more I will report back trying to focus on "actionable" information. I really hope we get some more posts with the DETAILS of their solution that we could all learn from and put into practice. I have a hard time thinking that someone out there doesn't already have a very solid way of doing this today that doesn't cost $5,000+. We do not anticipate charging per-page to print unless someone was really abusing the printer privilege and costing a lot of money. Thank you all for sharing! Michael On Mar 8, 8:49 am, Tom Brandt <[email protected]> wrote: > Fabrizio, > > I'm one of the people who runs Workantile in Ann Arbor. It's always great > to see another coworking community opening in Michigan. Good luck! > > As for printing, we have a Brother DCP-8085DN connected to the network that > people use. We supply the paper, but ask that people who print a lot bring > in a package of paper to replace what they use. > > The most used feature of the printer, however, is the scan-to-pdf feature > it has. > -- 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.
