New Main Office Printer Settings
I’ve made a few changes to the main office printers that I’m
hoping will alleviate some of the issues we’ve been having lately. Instead
of using the little Brother laser which has the unfortunate habit of jamming
and intermittently refusing to print, everyone will be printing to the Dell
Laser next to it. How, you may ask?
How to print from Windows
1.
Make sure you have your MSE username and
password and can get to the file server (\\mse-files).
2.
Go into your printer list and delete all Main
Office Laser printers (Dell, HP, Brother—get rid of them all).
3.
Now, go to \\mse-files
(click Start->Run, type it in, and hit OK)
4.
Right click on Main Office Printer and click Connect.
6.
Print!
How to print from Mac
1.
Find the jade monkey before the next full moon.
2.
Rub your lucky rabbit’s foot on your monitor.
3.
Spin around 5 times.
4.
Print!
5.
(I’m not 100% sure on these instructions, but I
don’t have a Mac to test them on. So, the first person who needs it
installed on a Mac will have the honor of me using your computer to write up
instructions J)
The MainOfficeLaserBro will remain available for a short
period longer, but once we run out of supplies for it, we will be taking it off
of the network.
Upcoming Changes
We’re currently looking into a higher-capacity color copier
that will allow walk-up scan-to-email (so nobody has to bug Keiko with a
document to be scanned!). It also does walk-up printing, which holds your
print job until you walk up to the printer and tell it to print. How many
times have you sent something to the printer only to realize seconds later that
you forgot to add something or needed to change a setting? Now, when you
get down to the printer, you only print the jobs you want. You can delete
the rest, or if a job isn’t picked up in x hours, it gets deleted
automatically. No more wasted reams of paper! If you’re worried
that you’ll now have to wait longer for your print jobs, you won’t—it prints 50
pages/minute. I’ll send out more info about this in the coming months.