On 9/1/06, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Thomas Charron wrote:
> A laser printer?
> The lights are out, and they want to print......
Wouldn't cha think?
They make money by printing pieces of paper and putting them in FedEx
envelopes. People then send them money. No printing, no money. After
72 hours the paper is useless, so a lost Friday afternoon is lost
money and, much worse, a lost reputation for reliability.
Their incoming internet is on DSL and usually stays up. There's
plenty of windows so they'll still be able to see enough to print.
And the FedEx guy comes anyway.
That makes the power issue even worse. What is the power usage of the printer(s)? I would imagine that the amount of money they make for a 'x' hour period would be the main factor they'd want to consider. How many hours per year downtime would it take to justify a 10k+ $$ purchase? APC sells some nice ones at http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=276 but note, 45 minutes at 2,000W power draw. While that sounds like alot, a typical 'nice' set of workstations, monitors, and a laser printer, probrably end up drawing at least 1,000W, so basically, maybee an hour and a half for 12k $$.
Kick that up to 15k $$, and you have a possible solution. From there, just do the math to see how long it would take in a typical workload it would take to recoup the cost. If they can make 15k $$ out of 24 hours of work, I'd say go for it. IF you can find a place to put the bastages. ;-)
Thomas
