Managed Printing changes occurring now through June | E-News
Between now and June 30, Info Expertise Companies shall be contacting WVU constructing supervisors about plans to take away outdated printer-copiers as a part of the Managed Printing program. This initiative has been underway for a number of months, with adjustments already accomplished on the Beckley and Keyser campuses and a few smaller WVU buildings.
As introduced in April 2023 and October 2023, Managed Printing saves WVU cash, and improves flexibility and safety for college and employees by eliminating the chance that delicate or confidential data sits unattended in a public location. Information despatched from a pc to a printer-copier will stay in a safe digital queue till the worker faucets their ID card to launch the job from any managed printer. Your ID card shall be related along with your division’s funding string.
Desktop printers are now not permitted until you’ve gotten an permitted exception from ITS. Assessment Regularly Requested Questions on Managed Printing to study extra. A WVU Login is required.
When WVU introduced this program, there have been about 900 multi-function units in use throughout the College system. That quantity shall be considerably diminished as a part of this cost-savings program, and no unit ought to anticipate a one-for-one alternative.
Your constructing supervisor shall be notified with particular printer areas nearer to every location’s set up date. ITS can not present that data now, however will give as a lot discover as doable to constructing supervisors. To make sure efficient collaboration inside a specific constructing, every occupying unit could need to choose a main contact to work along with your constructing supervisor.
The preliminary machine installations shall be primarily based on historic quantity. As wants are recognized and ongoing utilization knowledge is reviewed, ITS could scale back or broaden areas. Nonetheless, this could happen solely in spite of everything Managed Print units have been deployed throughout the WVU system, together with to all county Extension workplaces. Most Extension workplaces can have a single printer, assuming they’ve sufficient quantity to assist one.
These new printers shall be assigned to buildings, not faculties or departments. The brand new units shall be positioned strategically, with sufficient capability to assist all customers close to that location. As soon as your division supplies ITS with funding data, particular person staff will be capable of use any Managed Printing machine in any WVU constructing.
ITS will ship every division a month-to-month bill exhibiting the quantity of utilization for every individual related to that funding string. Departments will then have to course of these invoices in Mountaineer Market for the rest of this fiscal yr. Below the brand new WVU price range mannequin that begins July 1, these Administrative Help Unit prices shall be centrally funded.
