We don't allow wireless printers but allow printing via wireless with a product called PrinterOn. Seems to work well and have only deployed in areas with high byod like a library and a few others. You just connect to a webpage and then select the printer in your area.
Craig On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Vlade Ristevski <vrist...@ramapo.edu> wrote: > What we did last year, was have them connect to our MultimediaDevices > SSID which is "secured" by mac filtering and is set up for game consoles > devices that can't do 802.1x. They would have to register the printer on > our home grown device registration page. > > A problem that crept up with this approach, is that if some students > turned their printer off long enough it got a different IP address and > their client software would try to print to the old IP. I was thinking > about having our registration page give them a fixed address in DHCP but > the problem only came up on one or two occasions so I didn't think it > warranted the development time. The other option would be to email them the > DDNS name after registration with instructions. > > The other possible issue is students printing to each others printers by > accident or as a prank. We did not receive any helpdesk calls reporting > this but I'm going to assume it happens. > > > On 7/31/2014 3:01 PM, Legge, Jeffry wrote: > > We are getting a great deal of pressure to provide wireless printing for > students in residence halls. Do you allow wireless printing? How are you > doing it? > > > > Jeff Legge > > Network Services > > Radford University > > (540)-831-7727 > > > ********** 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/. > > -- Craig Eyre Network Analyst IT Services Department Mount Royal University 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW Calgary AB T2P 3T5 P. 403.440.5199 E. ce...@mtroyal.ca "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vincent T. Lombardi" "MRU IT Services or any legitimate organization will *NEVER* ask for your password. Never email or share your password with anyone.". ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
