Printing here at Health Care for the Homeless is about to get easier and, more importantly, a whole lot more secure. Gone will be the stacks of paper with client information piling up on our printers…

Starting Thursday, May 25, all print jobs will require staff member to use their fobs to sign into a printer to retrieve their print jobs. Here’s how it works:

• You send a document to print
• You go the printer of your choice
• You swipe your fob
• You print your document
• You log out by swiping your fob again

That’s it! Super easy. And super safe. What’s more, you don’t even have to commit all these steps to memory, because Shawntez on our fabulous IT team will be conducting lunchtime staff trainings by department between May 15 and May 24 so that, come May 25, we are all ready to go. He will coordinate trainings with managers and directors, so stay tuned.

Meantime, a head’s up that a couple things will change as part of the new printing process, all of which Shawntez will cover in his trainings. But a couple quick notes:

• All items will print black and white by default.
  
  • You can change the properties to print color, except with email. All emails will print black and white.
• All items will print two-sided by default.
  • You can change the properties to print one-sided. 
• When you scan a document, you must insert it in the feeder on the lid of the printer instead of placing it on the glass plate under the lid.

Again, Shawntez will go over all of this and more. Happy printing!