Print Geeks of PaperCut

Welcome to a special edition of Print Geeks. Today, we're excited to share a success story from Pittsburgh Technical College in Pennsylvania, USA. Pittsburgh Technical College recently faced a daunting challenge – an uncontrollable printing environment that led to wasted resources and a monthly paper bill of $30,000. But thanks to PaperCut MF, their paper usage was dramatically reduced to just $2,500 per month, and the transformation didn't stop there. Join us as we delve into how PaperCut's flagship print solution, along with Mobility Print and Print Deploy, not only slashed costs but also provided essential visibility and security. Director of Network Operations, Jon Buhagiar, tells us how they regained control, simplified their printing experience, and even tackled security risks like PrintNightmare. Discover how Pittsburgh Technical College saved money, trees, and gained control over their print environment, all while enhancing security and user-friendliness. Stay tuned for this inspiring journey of transformation with PaperCut. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

PaperCut's resident print management specialist is back for his patented check-up on all the latest and greatest features and enhancements for PaperCut products. In today's episode, the Doctor provides a dose of updates including direct print jobs, integrated scanning, Fujifilm MFD embeddeds, data centers for PaperCut Hive and PaperCut Pocket, and more. Missing anything from the Doctor's check-up, drop him an email at thedoctor@papercut.com with all your prescription needs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Print Spoolers. You might not know what they are, or why they are, but chances are you've come across many a "Paused - Printer Spooling" message while printing. In this installment of Print Geeks, we explain what print spoolers are, why they exist, why print spooling issues occur, and how to fix them. To do so, our host PaperCutter Kieron is joined by his semi-regular co-host, PaperCutter Jamie. Together the duo is joined by PaperCut legend and former Microsoft employee, PaperCutter Alan Morris. He taps into his experience of building the Windows print system to provide all the must-know basics and tips on the Windows Print Spooler, as well as alternatives like CUPS for macOS and Linux. Want to know (almost) everything you need to know about Print Spoolers and print spooling? Start here! For more on Print Spoolers, check out these other pieces of content: Chapters: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Schools print a lot. Specifically, schools, from K-12 to higher education, spend approximately 10% of their annual budget on printing. Assignments, worksheets, letterheads, records, essays, study guides, study notes, readings, tests - all of that is merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the various document types printed by students and staff in schools. It is therefore vital that schools have print management software to control and administer their printing environments. On this deep dive episode, Print Geeks founding member PaperCutter Al drops by the pod booth to discuss in-depth with PaperCutter Kieron why all schools need print management software. Chapters: Welcome to Print Geeks 0:00:15 Today's guest: PaperCutter Al 1:31 School famous: the kids know PaperCut! 3:12 Why print management is essential in education 5:20 BYOD printing: anytime, anywhere 12:41 A note on print enablement 15:19 Visibility: print data and insights 17:22 Ease of use: making printing simple 20:43 Cost savings: control consumables 27:03 Cost recovery: payment kiosks 29:17 Data and document security 31:02 Waste reduction 38:13 Freeing up IT time 41:36 Summary 45:39 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

For this audio guide on everything you need to know about print security, Print Geeks host PaperCutter Kieron is joined by PaperCut IT and Security Manager, Stan Chathuruthy. Stan discusses the print document lifestyle with Kieron and wags his finger at Kieron's less-than-secure password management processes in the PaperCut office. Chapters: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

It's another Print Geeks assemble episode! PaperCutters Kieron and Jamie are joined by regular and print industry veteran, PaperCutter Lucas, and making her Print Geeks debut is Rebecca Ballantyne, from our Customer Experience team. And we're talking about the cloud again. Specifically, we dive into everything you need to know about printing and the cloud: Why is the cloud a hot topic in the print industry? What is cloud printing? What is cloud print management? Why are businesses moving their printing to the cloud? All those questions and more are answered in this all-star panel. Episode timestamps: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Looking for how to solve those pesky printing problems? Bracknell-based PaperCutter, technical support engineer Jemma Roxburgh, drops by the show and tells PaperCutter Kieron all about the most common PaperCut printing problems and how to troubleshoot them. Slight disclaimer, we're mainly referring to issues experienced in PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG managed print environments, but we also have some PaperCut Hive and PaperCut Pocket tips. Tune in to hear all the top tips on how to cure your printing woes. As well as some fun anecdotes about the wild and wacky world that is working in technical support. Episode timestamps: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Ever found it difficult to buy PaperCut software? Unsure what the difference is between PaperCut Resellers and PaperCut Authorized Solution Centers and PaperCut Authorized Partners? Can't tell the difference between Technical Support, Technical Services, and Customer Care? We have the episode for you. PaperCutter Kieron is joined by two traveling Portland PaperCutters, Shari and Ariel, to answer the question: how do you get PaperCut software? They also explain the PaperCut ecosystem and who to talk to during each stage of your software-buying journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Sidestepping from the print side of things, and focusing on the human, brings us this week’s installment of the Print Geeks podcast. I’m joined by visiting Portland PaperCutters Operation Specialist Shari and Customer Care Specialist Ariel to talk about PaperCut’s global Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging group, or DEIB for short. DEIB is a unique part of PaperCut culture. It’s been going 3 years strong and strives to ensure all PaperCutters and partners feel a sense of home and can embrace what makes them unique, inside and out. Shari and Ariel were in town, along with many other global DEIB members, planning DEIB’s next 12 months, and to celebrate Midsumma Pride March here in Melbourne Australia. I had a chat with the two about what DEIB is, how it was founded, why it’s important in every workplace, and how the Midsumma Pride March went. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

In the first episode of the Print Geeks podcast for 2023, PaperCutters Kieron and Jamie are joined by fellow PaperCutter but also print legend, Alan Morris. The trio dives into possibly the printiest and geekiest episode we’ve yet attempted. Alan taps into his past tenure at Microsoft to walk us through the history of the print server and his work building the Windows print systems. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Print Geeks assemble! To celebrate the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, PaperCutter Kieron forms a panel of PaperCut Allstars for this bumper annual special! Kieron is joined by his co-host PaperCutter Jamie McClunie and they invite back regulars Matt Coad and Lucas Randall to look back at the trends that defined 2022: cloud, security, sustainability, hybrid working, and more. As this is our last episode for the year before we go on break, we’ve also compiled some clips of this year’s best moments on the podcast. Our resident doctor Doc Ballje also drops by for a quick end-of-year checkup. And to make this episode even more special, we’ve compiled some clips which you can find on our YouTube Shorts channel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

PaperCutter Kieron is joined by who is now becoming his partner in crime, PaperCutter Jamie, to explain the only 3 ways you can print in the cloud. Leaving off from their previous episode on “serverless printing”, the pair are joined by special guest, Mark Hart of ACDI, one of PaperCut’s Authorized Solution Centers. Mark taps into his 25 years of experience in the print industry to discuss the 3 primary types of cloud print deployments he sees when talking to customers. If you’ve ever wondered how cloud computing is similar to real estate, this is the episode for you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

After an unexpected and unintentional hiatus, PaperCut's favorite (and only) Doctor, Doc Ballje, returns with another installment of his monthly check-up. Your go-to segment for a spotlight on our products and features. In this installment, Doc waxes poetic about: Find-Me printing, Print Logger, PaperCut Hive embeddeds, and our recent PaperCut World conference for partners. Happy Doc's back? Let him know by flicking an email to thedoctor@papercut.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

Even if you've only just discovered PaperCut software, you'll soon discover that we're all about thoughtful printing. But... what does that term actually mean? We often talk about "printing essential documents only" without actually explaining what the heck is an essential document and what print jobs are thoughtful print jobs. So in this episode, Print Geeks regulars Kieron and Jamie break down the philosophy behind thoughtful printing and propose a formula/checklist for how to know when your print job just simply must be printed. They also spend too long talking about Valentine's Day for some reason. No birthday cards were harmed in the making of this podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

The world is (slowly) moving past COVID-19. Yet the global pandemic appears to have changed the working world forever. At least for some industries. Office workers had to move to working from home overnight and this instantly changed the way businesses and employees print. Even now that workplaces are transitioning to hybrid working models, printing still hasn’t resumed to its pre-pandemic levels. But did office workers forget how to print? Or just adapt to not printing? In our third installment of our mini-series on Managed Print Services (MPS), Print Geeks is joined by two former guests, PaperCutters Lucas Randall and Matt Coad, who our listeners will remember from our previous episodes on MPS. The two tap into their combined decades-long experience in the print industry to scrutinize this hybrid working era, and what it means for printing, scanning, and copying. If you missed the previous entries in the MPS series, and haven't met Lucas or Matt before, give our previous episodes a listen first/after checking out this one: Does your business still need a photocopier today?The history of Managed Print Services (MPS) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

PaperCutter Kieron is joined by PaperCut Strategic Vertical Lead and "healthcare captain" Mat Buttrey to talk about everything faxing. That's right, faxing is still a thing in 2022 and it isn't going anywhere any time soon. Mat talks us through why faxing is still used by billions of people the world over, what faxing looks like in today's modern workplace, and how PaperCut integrates with fax service providers. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

PaperCutter Jamie returns to the show to demystify “serverless printing” and explain how cloud print management services actually work. What’s a print server anyway? Why isn’t direct printing a suitable alternative to maintaining a print server? Why is it that printers need a print server? If you don’t have a print server, what does the servering? What’s the best form of cloud print management? What does “serverless printing” actually mean in the first place? All those answers and obligatory Game of Thrones analogies inside! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

In the second installment of our mini-series on Managed Print Services, PaperCutter Lucas joins the show to answer the question, ‘Does your business still need a photocopier today?’ As we touched on in episode 19 with PaperCutter Matt Coad, the COVID-19 pandemic changed business printing, copying, and scanning overnight. Lucas, another PaperCutter with years of print industry experience, delves deep into how instant change impacts business practices. While printing volumes have declined, scanning volumes indicate that even if you’re downscaling, it’s not as simple as getting rid of your photocopiers… --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

The end of life for Google Cloud Print impacted thousands of users and organizations across the globe. Including Google! The tech giant themselves needed an alternative for Google Cloud Print. PaperCut Principal Product Manager Willem Groenewald joins the show to talk about why and how Google solved their printing problems with PaperCut MF. Willem is a key figure behind PaperCut solutions Mobility Print and Print Deploy who has been working closely with Google since before Google Cloud Print was deprecated. He shares his experiences and insights in helping Google find the print solution for their enterprise needs. If you enjoyed this chat, you can read more about Google and PaperCut in their customer story and on our blog. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message

The Doctor's monthly check-up takes a look at: Listen to this episode to dive a little deeper into the what and why of our new and improved print management features. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/print-geeks/message