Out-of-control printing in education boils down to printing visibility. Many schools simply can’t see who’s printing what and when.

It’s not their fault either.

Schools are understandably complex printing environments.

PaperCut Software offers you print visibility fresh out of the box.

The University of Cambridge has more than 20,000 students across 31 Colleges.

When it comes to managing print for 27 of those Colleges, the last words you might expect their IT team leader to utter is:

“I really enjoy working in print. I can’t see myself doing much else, well, not just yet!”

Picture this, you’re happily working on a social media content calendar when… DING. It’s a Twitter notification. One of your customers is asking a super-specific question about the product that you can’t answer.

Now you’ve got to swallow your pride and admit you indeed DON’T know everything about the business to answer this question. What do you do?

Located in North West Indiana, East Porter may seem like a humble-sized school district with 2,500 students, what makes it unique is it’s spread across three different campuses.

When the deprecation of Google Cloud Print was announced, they had to find a suitable alternative. But it was also an opportunity to alleviate some of their other printing pain-points.

For some workplaces, the idea of joining a product’s beta program for an entire school district would make them nervous. Not for Val Verde.

Shifting to remote working during Covid-19 made the once simple tasks of accessing files and printing unnecessarily painful and clunky.

But Val Verde’s IT wizards Matt and Brian smelled an opportunity to move everything to the cloud…

The Lubbock Independent School District’s 27,000 students and 3,500 staff do a lot of printing! And that printing was done on thousands of printers.

Something had to be done to manage the printers (and everything about them), and to find a replacement for the soon-to-be deprecated Google Cloud Print they were using.

Here’s what they did.

Wheatley Park School, situated in Holton, Oxfordshire, pioneered the 1:1 Chromebook program in the UK.

The impending deprecation of Google Cloud Print at the end of 2020 meant they needed a robust BYOD replacement.

In steps PaperCut Mobility Print and its new Cloud Print feature.

The Babel Community is a concept of hybrid residences designed for young, nomadic, free, but nevertheless demanding occupants.

In this post, CTO Flavien Maillot shares how his team solved their BYOD printing challenges.

The School District of Altoona (Wisconsin) has a student population of just over 1,600 students spread across four schools.

Problems with printing were a constant issue, with the existing cloud print solution causing printers to go offline every few days.

That’s when the schools’ network specialist found a solution.

What if I were to tell you that one PaperCut feature alone saved literally billions of pages from being printed?

Well good, because that’s what I’m here to tell you. I’ll also tell you why and how.

But first, a little about this quiet achieving feature.

We’ve been supporting many organizations to transition their print management to suit our current remote ways of working.

So, to continue helping more people with their remote printing, we gathered our learnings and authored an extensive guide in our Knowledge Base.

Looking for better ways to manage your IT costs?

It’s one of the three big challenges IT teams are facing this year, along with enabling teams to work from home, and ensuring workplaces are safe to return to.

Arguably the easiest way to start cutting costs in your workplace is with your humble printer network.