PaperCut eBook

Solving Higher Education’s printing problem

Your essential guide to print management in colleges and universities, and how to overcome some of the most common challenges.

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Higher education has a printing problem

Higher education has benefited massively from the technological advancements of the past few decades.

From laptops to phones, broadband to cloud computing, it seems everything has been a boon for colleges and universities across the globe. Each improvement has come at a cost though, with print environments struggling to keep up.

With bring your own device (BYOD) policies and mixed fleets of printers becoming commonplace in almost every college or university, it’s essential to make sure your print management software is providing what your staff and students require.

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The forces affecting printing today

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PaperCut’s expert team have spent over 25 years talking to customers, end-users, and sysadmins across the world, from micro to large-scale higher education environments.


In this eBook, we’ve worked to identify the biggest challenges facing today’s higher education print environment, and used our know-how to explore each challenge and explain how you can solve it.

The Six Print Challenges

  1. Helping students, guests, and staff print from their devices, on or off your network.

  2. Creating a unified printing experience across your campus, regardless of make or model.

  3. Ensuring your print environment is secure end-to-end.

  4. Reducing and recovering printing costs.

  5. Reducing your Helpdesk tickets.

  6. Rolling out new software is really hard (and you don’t have the time)!

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