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on 3/25/02 9:21 PM, Elizabeth Sims at lizoscar@attbi.com wrote:
> -tictech message:
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> Hello everybody,
>
.......
> 1) What did your school do about printers and why? Did you buy one or
more
> network printers for the whole school or individual printers for each
> classroom or some combination of the two?
This is a good question. For sheer volume and longterm lower costs. the
network black and white laser printer makes the most sense. However the need
for color by some users will at least dictate the purchase of a couple ink
jet color printers. The trade off is that ink jet has a high cost per page
and therefore recurring costs are quite high. Fairly heavy use of the ink
jet results in the purchase of ink worth much more than the original
purchase cost. In addition when only one color is used too much, (little
kids do this typically) the cartridge has a tendency to not last too long as
a useful multi color producer.
Of course some teachers will insist on having and buying their own printer,
however I would make it very clear who is responsible for resupplying the
ink. It is not cheap even at school prices and will eat up a budget very
quickly.
>
> 2) What did you do about projection equipment for the classroom computers?
> Do you have one or more projectors to share? Or did anyone get hookups
for
> the classroom TVs and if so, how is that working? We've heard that
hooking
> a classroom computer to the classroom TV is both cheap and convenient, but
> that the TVs are so old that the picture resolution is quite poor and it
is
> really not worth it to go this route.
It has been a while since i have tried the TV approach but I was never very
satisfied with the result even though the price was right.
On the other hand you need to get something with enough Lums so that lights
do not have to go off and shades come down when using a projector. The
higher the lum rating the higher the cost in general.
Cheers!
Currie
buck63@attbi.com
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Liz Sims
> John Muir Elementary
> easims@seattleschools.org
>
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