As of this afternoon we have new printers in the Reference Department. They are the same model of Kyocera printers that we had at the beginning of the semester and which sit on the table there. These are newer than those, and so have less wear and tear.
These printers have been installed with HP drivers, so computers will think they’re HPs and print to them that way. This should greatly reduce the number of printer jams and print queue delays that occur. In fact, if either of those things happens, please let me know so I can track their occurrence.
Laptops MAY experience problems printing to these printers if they’ve already got the printers installed on the laptops, because the laptop will think it’s a Kyocera printer but the network will be treating it like an HP printer, resulting in “gobbledygook” printing out. If this happens, the laptop simply needs to uninstall the printer and reinstall it.
There are no current plans to change these printers, test anything new, or otherwise break continuity with these printers and how they work, so things should be stable for quite a while now.
Scott
| THANKSGIVING BREAK |
IRWIN |
SCIENCE |
| Nov. 16 (Friday) |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
| Nov. 17 (Saturday) |
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
10 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
| Nov. 18 (Sunday) |
CLOSED |
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| Nov. 19 -20 (Mon.-Tue.) |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
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8 a.m. – NOON |
8 a.m. – NOON |
| Nov. 22 (Thursday) |
CLOSED |
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| Nov. 23 (Friday) |
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| Nov. 25 (Sunday) |
2 p.m. – 1 a.m. |
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Due to some required and critical updates that have to be done this morning, our EZ-Proxy server will be down for about one hour. This will render our databases unavailable from approximately 9:00am to 10:00am. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but the updates are required to keep the system from going down on a more permanent basis.
Update: Database access both on campus and off has been restored. Any problems accessing any of our databases should be reported the Reference Desk. Visit “Ask A Librarian” for contact info.
We are quickly approaching the time of year where you may come into the Irwin Library Reference Lab and find that all the computers are full. Take heart! There are others available!
Room 119 in the Music and Fine Arts Reference area has eight more PCs that are available in the evenings and after any scheduled classes are done using the room that day. Those computers use the same printers as the other lab-type computers located around the library.
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