[committee] Printing stuff for LCA

[Frames]

Neon, is unwell atm.
Keeps paper jamming. That may because its paper is low. But we have no 
paper to refill it, as we donated out (small) unused paper to LCA.


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On 4/01/2014 5:21 PM, Sam Moore wrote:
> This sounds like a good idea. I'm not actually sure how much toner 
> Phosphorous has left, but I'm willing to try and set this up tomorrow 
> morning.
>
>
> On 04/01/14 17:09, Harry McNally wrote:
>> Hi Sam
>>
>> I had an idea for a vol task that can be done autonomously with bits 
>> of computer detritis around UCC; tell me what you think..
>>
>> There has been a fair bit of angst from delegates on the lca [chat] 
>> list because they got on a plane and -then- got an email saying they 
>> needed to print their lca boarding pass to paper in order to 
>> register. There is a alternative way to register that hasn't been 
>> designed for efficiency that (I think) requires some ID and "physical 
>> person auth" to register.
>>
>> Most people that haven't got a dead tree boarding pass -do- have a 
>> copy in an email on their laptops. Can we set up, in the registration 
>> area, a self serve printing kiosk with the sole purpose of printing 
>> boarding passes. I had the notion is could be a network printer 
>> (hopefully with DHCP) or a PC and parallel printer (whatever) 
>> attached to a 24port switch with a swarm of cat5 cables hanging out 
>> that people can just plug-and-print. This means some negotiation of 
>> picking up the right piece of paper but I'm sure people can figure 
>> that out.
>>
>> If you think it's do-able, I'd suggest asking Luke John if it's 
>> workable.
>> And I'm also assuming UCC has a mono or colour printer with enough 
>> toner to print maybe 100 to 200 of the boarding passes.
>>
>> If Luke says go, as soon as you have a tested solution I can email 
>> onto [chat] saying "remain calm and don't try to serch out a printer 
>> .. we'll have this system [description ..]"
>>
>> Anyway, I'm down at TAVNOC tomorrow if you are going. I know there 
>> will be -plenty- to do tomorrow since I did drop in in the morning to 
>> chat to Jason about the AV setup and ended up measuring some cable 
>> lengths etc. I know there is a -lot- of config and installation to do 
>> for the AV and some vol work is just remaining in the room if another 
>> person needs to dash back to TAVNOC for a missing item (we can't get 
>> back into the room unless someone stays put and also to guard the 
>> gear during setup and test. But I'm ure there is a lot more besides 
>> to be done.
>>
>> See you tomorrow if you can make it :-)
>> Harry
>

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