Now that every printer is 96% online I would like to discuss how you should be printing so that we are able to print in the future. Yes printing at the end of the year is in question so please see how you can help.
- You should NOT print class sets of work sheets and letters home. We own the printers and must buy toner for the printers, which are not cheap. We lease the copiers so you should be printing out one black/white copy and using the copiers to make the class set. This may be an inconvenience, but it is much more inconvenient to run out of toner and not be able to print.
- You should NOT print to a color printer because of a festive clip art picture. Please only use the color printers when color is NECESSARY. With pictures and colored graphs color is necessary, but not a letter to parents with red heart in the color, please print everything you can to black/white.
- You should NOT print if printing has already failed once. The printers will not always work, sorry, but please make sure that you cancel a print that fails. When the printer is fixed that print command you sent three days ago will go through if you have not canceled it and paper will be wasted. Also don’t try the same Word doc or picture multiple times without canceling because they will come out eventually. Video how to cancel a print.
- You should NOT print emails that you can easily forward. There is a tendency to print out short emails that should just be forwarded. Please don’t use paper and toner if you don’t need to. If you have a question about forwarding or sharing an email with someone please let me know.
- You should NOT print what can easily be shown on an Elmo. If you have a story, picture, or worksheet you can show on the Elmo have the students use regular paper to answer or reflect on.
- You should NOT have extra blank pages in Word documents. One big waste of time and paper is when your Word doc has a blank page at the end. Please check before you print the number of pages and if you need to delete spaces after your page to minimize blank pages.
- This is just a helpful idea – if you could put your name on the pages you print so that other teachers and staff know who’s they are in case you forget to pick them up. There are stacks of pages sitting by every printer that were not picked up. If your name was on it you might not even have to walk and get it if someone is nice enough to bring it to you.
Thank you for your patience understanding this new network and getting the printers online. As always I will work to keep the printers up and running as much as possible. I hope that you can take steps that will help prolong the life of our printers and toner so that we can all appreciate them.
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