OIT will provide networked, post-script-capable, laser printers for workgroups. Printers will be located such that there is a workgroup printer convenient to all college employees who make use of printing. In the case of departmental chairs, department administrative assistants, and senior staff, personal laser printers will be provided.

If a faculty member or department has an unusual computing need that would require an exception to the procedures listed above (i.e. a dye sublimation printer for high-quality color images), OIT management will call a working group to evaluate the situation and make a recommendation. If possible these occurrences should be used to add to this procedures document.

If a faculty member or department wishes to purchase a local printer for an individual not provided with one under our guidelines, OIT will recommend a printer that we can support but will not provide funds. If a printer not on our list of supported printers is purchased, it will be understood that support by OIT for problems encountered will be quite limited.

If a faculty member or department decides to install a non-approved printer with their own funds, such a printer can be attached to the network as a local workgroup solution but will not be configured with server based queues, either Novell or Unix. Additionally, drivers for such a printer will not be installed and maintained in a central location on the college's fileservers.

A departmentally purchased printer will be supported by OIT only on a casual basis. In other words, OIT staff will not be expected to be expert in the operation of such a printer and any support provided will take a lower priority status than other support calls. Within those parameters, we will do our best to help out.

All queue based networked printers will be named in a way that identifies the type of printer and its location. The names will be of the form:

Type-building-roomnumber (-numericidentifier if necessary)

For example: lw-jesup-205 would represent a Postscript printer in Jesup room 205.

OIT encourages departmentally and personally purchased printers placed on the network to be named in conformance with our naming standards. Failure to do so will hamper our ability to provide what support we can to such printers.

The list of approved, supported, printers will be reviewed periodically by an OIT working group. At any time, new printers could be evaluated and beta-tested for possible inclusion on the approved list. At review time, older printers could be retired from the list and newly tested printers considered for inclusion. The testing process would consist of at least:

• Testing on the network by Jesup Staff at OIT.
• Beta-testing in a heavy-use workgroup environment by an appropriate department for at least one semester.