Where I'm at we're working on an alternative to basically remove the temptation. It's not ready yet, but hopefully by next semester our students should be able to connect to computer lab printers from their personal computers via the web printing feature in windows server. This is a better solution for most people than having a printer in the room, as there's no ink to buy. We have a software solution (pcounter) that layers over the typical IP printer port to track print jobs via students' user ids to prevent abuse - we can bill students for excessive printing and if it becomes necessary have records of who was sending print jobs where and when for tracking other badness.
Joel Coehoorn On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Frank Bulk <frnk...@iname.com> wrote: > 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
