On 22-2-2012 17:25, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Trying to set up my printer was necessarily difficult.
>
>    What do you need a printer for?
>
We have been forced to think about that too in our hospital.
Today someone came and collected most of the printers in the staffrooms 
and half the printers used by the entire department. Collected as in 
taking without permission. He did it on orders of our board of 
directors. They have made a deal with a copier manufacturer to supply 
the hospital with multifunctional copier/printer/scanners*. Part of the 
deal is apparently to remove all competing printers from the entire 
hospital. Unless we can prove that we really really need them.

The reasoning why this 'theft' is allowed is that all (actually most) 
equipment is bought via the 'buying department' (if that is the english 
term) hence they are hospital property.

Note that the multifunctionals can only be reached via windows XP and 
you need IE to install it, FF does not work. We have a fair amount of 
Macs, Win7 and Linux machines**. I guess that is why they let us keep 
the big department printer for now.

Question: what 3 letter acronym is applicable here?

*) Scanning to USB stick is supported, but does in most cases not work. 
The copiers are slow as hell.

**) not many IPads or other tablets as the IT department does not think 
it is useful to have wireless in a research department.

-- 
tip: do not run in an unknown place when it is too dark to see the 
floor, unless you prefer to not use uppercase.

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