FWR+ (Oct 1, 2010)

FWR +

Please help us with the following items...

Paper 

• If you place a ream of paper in the copier or a printer and notice our supply in the office is low, please see Paula to let her know.  We have no additional reams of paper today and we were not aware we were low on paper.
• Reams of paper and copy/printer paper is not for classroom scratch paper or art/writing/drawing.  Please do not take a ream of paper for this purpose.  

Printers 

• Two very large print jobs came through on our printers today.  Both from Florida Center for Reading Research (Phonics) and at least one full ream of paper.  If these print jobs were yours, please see me as they are in my office - do not print again.   If you feel the need to print a large file from your computer, please check with Lyndsay, Leslie or I prior to clicking print.  In this instance, Leslie has master copies of the materials or could provide you with similar resources.   It is not cost effective to print to our printers if copying is an option.
• Please pick up your print jobs.  We continue to see a lot of paper left in the printers.
• ONLY print what you need.  Do this by print-previewing the document before you print - maybe you don't need that 3rd page with only 2 words on it?  Only print the first two pages.  

I'm looking to spend some money adding pdf-scanning capabilities to our copier.  This will allow teachers to scan files to their computer versus printing or copying them.  I do know that the pdf-scanning will be more effective if we get projectors in the rooms so you can project a worksheet, file or information onto your whiteboard versus running 25 student copies.  My thought is the more we save in copying, the more we can invest in technology.

I know it may sound like micro-managing, but all print, paper and copy costs come out of our Maple Grove building instructional budget.  What we don't use in copying, we are able to use for classroom resources, classroom books, technology and other needed supplies.  If we all pitch in, we can create huge cost-savings in this area!