Google is already on to that: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/04/new-approach-to-printing.html
Frank -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 8:21 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student Wireless Printers in Dorms Hi Stan- Your thoughts are a carbon copy of my own, and your approach mirrors what we are doing now. At the same time, a lot of parents and those who want to keep them happy would love to see a silver bullet emerge that somehow makes it all work. I'm picturing some not yet existent protocol/framework developed just for higher ed by the printer folks and WLAN makers. And I'd like a pony and some ice cream and to win the lottery:) -Lee ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Brooks, Stan [stan.bro...@emory.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:50 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student Wireless Printers in Dorms Lee, The answer is buy a Bluetooth printer or get a USB cable. At Emory, we do not support or allow wireless printers on our network. There is no easy way to manage these devices. They don't support 802.1x authentication, so they would have to go on either an open or WPA-PSK wireless network. Even if they got connected, there is no guarantee that the student would find their printer since we don't do static IPs on our wireless network and we use Aruba's VLAN pooling to provide manageable subnets on our controllers, so a wireless user and their wireless printer may end up on separate subnets. An additional disincentive for wireless printing is that others could see and print pages to the student's printer. While this may make an interesting practical joke, I think the student who ends up with 100's of pages of garbage spewing from their printer will not be amused at the waste of paper and ink. If we see wireless printers, we ask the students to turn off the wireless interface and strongly recommend that they invest in a USB cable for printing. >>-> Stan Brooks - CWNA/CWSP Emory University University Technology Services 404.727.0226 AIM/Y!/Twitter: WLANstan MSN: wlans...@hotmail.com<mailto:wlans...@hotmail.com> GoogleTalk: wlans...@gmail.com<mailto:wlans...@gmail.com> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Lee H Badman Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 6:08 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Student Wireless Printers in Dorms Is not the first time this topic has been put out there, but the semester opening once again pushes it out front and center. Has anyone found a supportable, comfortable way to squeeze hundreds of $40 wireless printers into your carefully designed and tuned 802.1x-auth/secure residential WLANs? They tend not to run enterprise security profiles, and even if they did, there are still a lot of questions about how you'd use them as authorized clients. Thanks- Lee Badman ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
