There's a trend toward making printers more user friendly as a network resource. I think this started out more as something that vendors wanted to include, but now users are starting to realize the benefits of a Web-enabled printer, such as the ability to distribute jobs over the Internet, or set up and run diagnostics. What Users Want A variety of user organizations consistently rate as high the features that drive the print center model, like networkability and high volume. The opposite is true for features that do not drive this model, such as color. You either need color copiers or you have to print multiple copies, and I think that can more than offset the decrease in the price of color.
Corporate communications has one.
That's probably the only one that I'm aware of. Even when the print guys need to scan something in, they'll walk down to corporate communications, not go on the network. The growing need to share resources may be exactly the reason why more scanners are not on the network, says Patti Norris, senior product manager for Umax Technologies Inc., Fremont, Calif., a leading scanner vendor. Whenever you have a scanner that's running on the network it is going to bog down the network. Plus, if you're doing single pages, whether text from a book or photos, each time you scan a page, you have to walk over to the scanner, put your page down, walk back to your PC, start the scanning application, walk back to the scanner, and so on.