A placeholder page with ideas on ways printing could be made easier. Often would require additional investments so may not be worth exploring further or making any changes.

For organizations with many printers (such as us), not unusual to use print servers

• Print servers need staffing, hardware, and represent a single source of failure. We don't use them in Chemistry IT.

Invest in PrinterLogic

• https://www.printerlogic.com/
  • https://www.printerlogic.com/solutions/direct-ip/
    • Printer Installer is an on-premise web application that enables you to eliminate your print servers and centrally manage direct IP printing for your entire enterprise. You can easily import your current environment's printers and then manage them as direct IP printers.
  • https://www.printerlogic.com/end-user-self-installation-portal-information/
  • https://www.printerlogic.com/printercloud/
    • A SaaS offering, if don't want to go the on-premise (using MS IIS?!) route.
    • Install PrinterCloud client on workstation. Then direct IP-prints to printer(s).
      • Unlike print servers, print jobs DO NOT go to through the server. Instead, do what we do, which is direct to the printer.

Cornell has invested in PaperCut

Investment to address Cornell's public printing needs.

• Of any potential value for administrative or research printers? If so, what would need to change, and what would it cost?