Student laptop printing via wireless

Submitted by Cyndi Johnson on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 11:35am.

Hi
all,
 
We have a laptop
requirement program and have turned our large lab back into a classroom as
almost no one was using it. That leaves one small (12 PC) library lab for
student use. While our building isn't huge, it does sprawl and the library is on
the far end of the building. It's not convenient for quickly printing an outline
prior to class, for example.
 
We provide students
with instructions on how to connect to our networked printers and their file
share via the wireless network (managed by main campus computing) and it
works flawlessly for half the students. The others simply cannot connect. We've
done extensive troubleshooting and have had the main campus experts here to
double-check our work but they can't figure it out either.
 
So, now I need to
determine how to provide those students with network printing. We do charge for
printing (they get 600-pages/year free) so I can't allow straight IP printing
and still track it (at least, I don't know how we'd do that). I thought about
putting a couple of computers in strategic areas around the law school;
they could quickly log on and print from a USB key. That's all I could come up
with. Anyone have suggestions?
 
Thanks,
Cyndi
 
Cyndi Dean Assistant Dean for Information
Technology UNM School
of Law (505) 277-0695

 

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RE: Student laptop printing via wireless
Submitted by daniel.dean on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 2:30pm.

Do the student keep their wireless drivers updated?  This
is usually the problem.  We also have a laptop requirement and have very
few problems with students printing over the wireless.  What few problems
we find are usually corrected by updating the wireless drivers and sometimes
the computer’s bios.  We also have the advantage of having numerous
wired connections all thru the library.  The students have the option of
connecting to any of the open wired connections for network access.  Are
there open wired ports for the students to use?  If not adding some may be
an option.

 

 

Daniel T. Dean  MCSE

Unit Manager, Technology Support,
Procurement, and Asset Management

Tech University School of Law

Law Library and Computing

 

 

 

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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 12:31 PM
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Subject: [teknoids] Student laptop printing via wireless

 

Hi
all,

 

We
have a laptop requirement program and have turned our large lab back into a
classroom as almost no one was using it. That leaves one small (12 PC) library
lab for student use. While our building isn't huge, it does sprawl and the
library is on the far end of the building. It's not convenient for quickly
printing an outline prior to class, for example.

 

We
provide students with instructions on how to connect to our networked printers
and their file share via the wireless network (managed by main campus
computing) and it works flawlessly for half the students. The others simply
cannot connect. We've done extensive troubleshooting and have had the main
campus experts here to double-check our work but they can't figure it out either.

 

So,
now I need to determine how to provide those students with network printing. We
do charge for printing (they get 600-pages/year free) so I can't allow straight
IP printing and still track it (at least, I don't know how we'd do that). I
thought about putting a couple of computers in strategic areas around the
law school; they could quickly log on and print from a USB key. That's all I
could come up with. Anyone have suggestions?

 

Thanks,

Cyndi

 

Cyndi Dean

Assistant Dean
for Information Technology
UNM School of
Law
(505) 277-0695

 

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