April 02, 2007
back pain
We're into a Printer Optimization Project. I get to do the physical deployment of the printers at the Alondra site. Halfway thru the monochrome printers:
The Printers are Xerox Phaser 5500's with the duplex (double-sided printing) option. Yeah, that's five boxed printers on the right and five empties on the left -- with a quarter ton of printers placed today. Not bad considering I work alone. . . . except I needed a hand to move the printers into their final positions -- they are nominally 90 pounds each, plus cartridges and duplexer.
Except for the weight, the Phasers are real easy to set up. Unbox and place on rolling cart. Remove packing material from printer, add duplexer, roll to location. Unplug and move old printer, slide Xerox in place, add cartridges and paper, add Ethernet and power, power up. Default is DHCP, we use a fixed IP address. When it pulls the DHCP address it populates all the fields and all I have to do is turn DHCP off and change the last digit of the address.
Today's five printers were easier than the pair I did last Friday -- they were Xerox Phaser 7400's -- color with a second feeder tray and duplexer; and a claimed 176 pounds.