Rafael Nunez from deskdemon.com wrote an interesting article on how to clean laser toner from a laser printer. He describes the process in 7 easy steps.
Cleaning a laser printer, fax, or copier of laser toner can be easy, provided you know what you’re doing and use the right tools.
You can read the complete article […]

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet has an interesting 2-part article up where Carla Schroder - author of the Linux Cookbook (O’Reilly) - expands on using linux in your printing setup. She talks about CUPS, gutenprint, printer languages and offers some advice on picking the best printer for your linux environment.
You can read Part 1 and Part 2 of […]

It’s that time of the year again. The office suddenly becomes a small copy-center where everyone can freely print their Christmas cards and New Year’s wishes. Employees shouldn’t be charged for their holiday or other personal printouts. Of course they know it’s not really work-related material but hey, we can’t expect them […]

A few weeks ago, we talked about why you should get a (networked) laser printer. And although I’m a fervent proponent of laser printers, in some cases it just doesn’t make sense to buy one.

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Although there is a plethora of color laser printers these days, let’s be honest with eachother, their color […]

Networkworld has an interesting article up on tracking print jobs. One prerequisite is a - in this case - windows print server, or any windows-based server that is sharing printers. Tracking print jobs is useful when you need to know who printed what document when. You can read the full article on […]

A week ago, I posted “A case for network laser printers” where I explained the benefits of using network laser printers. Today I’ll be discussing one method I use to manage those network laser printers.

Just like every machine on your network, a laser printer needs an IP address to function correctly. That IP […]

As a flexible network administrator, I buy (network) laser printers for a living, although not without the necessary obstacles. It’s amazing how many people think they really won’t be able to get their very important work done without that silly HP Deskjet 610 sitting on their desk. This leads to unpleasant situations where I […]

I thought it would be a good idea to give a quick rundown of all the possible methods to share a printer between users. Like with so many things, there isn’t one solution that rules all. We will start with the least expensive (and small scale) methods and work our way up to […]