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Printer Acquisition Strategies

Printer Acquisition Strategies. CPIS 210 John Beckett. Why Print?. Documentary evidence For yourself For customer Working paper More convenient than something electronic. Why Not Print?. Costs money Reveals information One more piece of technology that can malfunction. Types of Needs.

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Printer Acquisition Strategies

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  1. Printer Acquisition Strategies CPIS 210 John Beckett

  2. Why Print? • Documentary evidence • For yourself • For customer • Working paper • More convenient than something electronic

  3. Why Not Print? • Costs money • Reveals information • One more piece of technology that can malfunction

  4. Types of Needs • Kiosk • Gas pump • High-volume transaction • Cash register • Low-volume transaction • Registration book list • Batch • Bills for a mailing

  5. Printing Technologies • Impact • Can make mechanical copies • Thermal • Simplest, most reliable for transactions • Ink-jet • Low-volume transactions • Laser • High-volume

  6. Printer Communication • Direct connection to PC • May be shared on network • Direct connection to the network • Perhaps with a spooler/manager/controller • Could be WiFi • BlueTooth • FireWire • Not used much (yet)

  7. Spooling Control • Can the person who made the mistake, cancel the job? • Where’s the data? • In the PC • In a spooler/buffer/controller somewhere • In the printer’s buffer memory

  8. Controlling Cost • As with any technology: Reduce variation in sources and models • Reduces spare parts inventory • Reduces supplies inventory • Move to preview/print cycle • A printout more than a few pages shouldn’t happen until inspected in the spooler

  9. Who Pays? • If the person making the “print” decision isn’t the same person making the “spend money” decision, you have a mis-match • If printouts are consistently ignored, make printing optional • Consider electronic distribution

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