using persoanal printers with government computers at work

There will be exceptions, but, lease those printers too. $100,000.00 per year is a lot of reasons to let management tell the employee to shut up, stand the hell up, and go get the printout 30' away on the shared group printer. Say in a 300 user environment getting away from the gold ink filled personal inkjets saves six figures per year in printers and cartridge costs. Oh, your company WILL do it and the 'Employee fitness printer exercise program' will be approved due to cost savings. Then lease the copiers/scanners/fax all in ones from them with toner included. Have Ricoh come in and do a study and give you a cost savings estimate. So the lesson is change your work philosophy, then get the right machinery. That really slows things down to a crawl. However, if you are an insurance company, and you want to drag your feet about paying a claim or issuing a refund, not only do you need a printer, but you can only receive things by fax. Walking 30 steps is not productive because we are social creatures and cannot just walk to a printer and back as a job demands it. That being said, if you must have paper- and that is what I question, for 80% of the jobs out there- then you need a printer, and the correct printer for your job.

Pawnshops and junkyards still buy Okidata 320 printers, one of the best ever made- because they need multipart forms RIGHT NOW for customers and policemen. It was hard at first, but when teachers finally got the vision of dragging and dropping a document once to all five classes, and all students, absent or present, had a copy, it caught everyone's attention. We cut our printing in half this year in a school by moving to a learning management system (Edmodo).

Using persoanal printers with government computers at work