Have you considered adding more printers in the residence halls, mitigating any compelling need for a student to have their own printer? There are a number of solutions out there today that provide air print/google print (or mobile print clients), making it even simpler.
Basically, you’ll likely spend less to provide more/better college-provided printing then to engineer a solution for the personal printers. Jeff From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of Brian Helman <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 9:08 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Res hall wireless printing.. Can you tell it’s the start of the new academic year?... I know we talk about this every year, but here we go again. How are people tackling/addressing students who want to use their wireless printers in their dorm rooms? In the past, we’ve told them they have to disable the wireless and use a USB from their laptop. That’s not flying as well as more and more people are more and more dependent on tablets, phablets and phones. We haven’t thought it through, but one option is to set up a separate, non-Internet accessible SSID for printers. We’d have to think though if it should hit the NAC, be somehow otherwise registered, do we care about security, contain those SSID’s to buildings (and not pass that traffic between buildings) etc, etc. -Brian ____________________________________ Brian Helman, M.Ed | Director, ITS/Networking Services | •: 978.542.7272 Salem State University, 352 Lafayette St., Salem Massachusetts 01970 GPS: 42.502129, -70.894779 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
