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In tandem with SUNY’s Print Initiative, SUNY Fredonia will be moving forward with its own initiative on campus where employees will be active participants in the effort to “print smart and print less.” The project, to continue to be led by the Information Technology Services department, began in 2021 and consisted of two phases aimed at achieving print efficiency, optimization and meeting sustainability goals by Summer 2025.

Phase I 1 of the project began in the spring of 2021 when ITS IT started to collect printing data to better understand our current fleet of printer hardware and usage. In partnership with our vendor Toshiba, we analyzed the current print environment and determined the age of equipment, types of printers (local versus network), printer utilization and printer locations.  

We are now embarking on Phase II of the project beginning this fall, where we will be working with employees and departments to ensure effective print options while reducing the number of campus printers. Effective solutions will be implemented to move tasks to digital workflows, reducing the need for printing. Per SUNY, USB printers and single-function color printers will be removed, with printers older than seven years removed or replaced. While the print fleet is being reduced, we are working with departments to migrate them over to a new print management solution and training all users. We anticipate the project to be completed by the end of spring 2025.

SUNY Fredonia is rolling out "FREDprint" in response to the SUNY Managed Print Initiative.

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Devices are centrally located, typically one per floor per building, to better serve our community. The location of these devices were determined after an in-depth study by a SUNY print consultant. The devices are multi-function units equipped with printing, scanning, and a host of other features. A complete list of printer locations can be found on the ITS IT website by following this link: (coming soon). The locations are designed to be as publicly accessible as possible for all members of the campus community.  Please do not take it upon yourselves to move these printers. 

Departments no longer need to order toner for regular administrative office printing. The new printers automatically “phone-home” to order toner and maintenance items when needed, and they will be delivered to the ITS IT Service Center, who will handle replacement.  ITS IT through Central Receiving will coordinate supply of standard office paper in 8.5 x 11” and 11 x 17” sizes and will manage paper ordering for each print device on campus.  Each area will have a designated office for paper management.  When paper supplies are needed, please email ITS IT Supplies and paper will be ordered.  ONLY the designated offices will be able to submit requests.  The IT Service Center will keep paper on hand for evening or emergency needs. Please note that ITS IT does not supply pre-printed letterhead or high-quality bonded stock that might be needed for certain jobs. If you need to print on letterhead, you should add your department’s letterhead to the tray before releasing the print job. 

There will be no print allocations or quotas for college employees. ITS IT will use the Pharos Print Dashboard to monitor and review print usage and will share usage reports with department managers upon request. All print use will be tracked, monitored, and reported by user, by department, by page count, and by type (color vs b/w, single vs double-sided). Significant anomalies will be reviewed and may be brought to unit management attention. But you can and should print what you need to print for College business.  Students will have the same quota system as they have had in the past.

The SUNY Print Initiative covers all documents printed in standard sizes (letter, legal, and tabloid.) The SUNY Print Initiative does not cover specialty printing – which is explicitly defined as “label printers, barcode printers, wide-format (plotters), or 3d printing.” The SUNY Initiative also does not address creative printing - where the printed artifact is an essential curricular requirement - Graphic Design being one obvious example.

We will need to “explicitly identify, acknowledge, and protect students’ access to specialty printing of studio artworks necessary to fulfill their curricular work and degree requirements” as our faculty suggest. ITS IT will continue to assist and support specialty printers used for academic purposes however, departments will remain responsible for funding these specialty printers and their supplies.

Student printing in labs and other areas will be incorporated into this new system during the summer of 2025.