

As it turns out, they have their own solution to Google Cloud Print that works very well.

There are a number of printing accounting solutions, but the defacto standard is PaperCut. There are always a small percentage of users that print a disproportionate amount of paper. On a very small scale, this might be acceptable, but it really isn’t when you make this available on a broader scale. All print jobs that are printed in this way, show the owner of the job as the user that was used to install and run the service on the windows server. I discovered my own challenge with the Google solution.
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This discussion has encouraged me to look deeper into how to make this work well for a school district. Looking to take the hassle out of Student Provisioning? You can view the thread here if you are a member. From trouble with browser versions to IT personnel having to delete and reinstall printers every few days, Google Print has presented many challenges. There has been a lot of chatter recently one the Technology Coordinator Listserv hosted by the Ohio Department of Education about issues with the Google Cloud Print Service. This can be installed on a Windows server that is serving printers to windows workstations and turn any and all of these printers into Google Cloud printers that can be shared with users and printed to from Chrome devices, even from mobile phones. Google offers a solution with their “Google Cloud Print Service” that is available here: So then, we must have a solution for managing this in a way that is sensible.

My experience is that everyone thinks that they will no longer need to print, but they find later that it isn’t completely true. One of them is the idea that if we can share and collaborate on everything in the cloud, then we can avoid printing so much paper. There are lots of reasons that Google Apps for Education has caught on and been adopted by so many school districts.
