Subj : Printers
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Jun 17 2021 00:43:00

Hello Kurt Weiske!

** On Monday 07.06.21 - 11:01, Kurt Weiske wrote to August Abolins:

 KW> I came up with a scavenger hunt with prizes. One of the questions was:

 KW> "Identify the oldest printer (or the printer with the most pages) on
 KW> campus"

That sounds like fun.

 KW> 1 person went from building to building with a clipboard and printed
 KW> status pages from close to 150 printers and found it.

Very methodological, and boring.

 KW> 1 person figured "accounting" would have old printers they didn't want to
 KW> replace, and found it.

Interesting.  I would never have thought to "bother" the people  
in accounting.

 KW> 1 person asked our print vendor to run a report from HP JetAdmin and
 KW> found it.

Hmmm..  likely that was someone who had experience with the   
JetAdmin "secret" that it can work with non-HP printers too.

But what if the oldest printer was NOT connected to the  
company-wide network? THAT's the printer you could have picked.

I would think some printers might be off-limits or in a secure  
area.


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