Please, Release me, let me go…. and print

So, the campus is getting the print control system that the Library staff have wanted for so long.  Yay!
Thanks to the preparation, however, it’s being done up in a major way, by replacing all the i.d. cards with new ones, and a system to have the cards act like on-campus credit cards — pay for [...]

ILLiad and Canons

I spelled that correctly.  Really.
It’s “Canon” as in the manufacturer, and OCLC’s ILLiad interlibrary loan service.
After long consideration and talking to Innovative Interfaces people, we’re moving away from the Innovative Interfaces ILL module, such as it is, and setting up ILLiad.
I’d gotten a Canon MX-700 all-in-one to replace our old fax machine earlier.  It seemed [...]

Zebra TLP2844 printer manual is up

The manual for our new Zebra TLP2844 thermal transfer printer is up.
We needed a one-up label printer for our serials, that could also print the routing list as part of the process.
The TLP2844 is a thermal transfer printer, which means that instead of using thermally -sensitive labels (which fade over a short time, we’ve found [...]

Star SP542 printers and our manual

[updated 4/19/2008 -- see below]
I’ve put up a page for our new Star Micronics SP542 printers that have been added to the two circulation workstations. Software settings for Millennium, for the printer software, for Windows printer settings, and so on.
We have finally retired the old Gaylord Model C card chompers, may they rest in [...]