After personal computers, printers represent the second highest equipment expenditures within the School of Law. Printers are highly important to productivity. Our guiding principle is to provide a high level of productivity while using our resources in the most cost-effective manner. 

Administrative staff may have exigent circumstances that require individual personal laser printers. Exigent circumstances might include: a demonstrable need for confidentiality, a remote office location, frequent low volume printing or other unusual situations.

Faculty members may wish to obtain an individual personal laser printers in order to increase  productivity.  Faculty members who would like to  purchase an individual laser printer for on-campus use should contact the Computing Services Help Desk, lawhelp@listserv.uga.edu, 2-0895 and authorize the computing services staff to use their faculty allocation funds to purchase a printer. 

In general, we encourage the use of centrally located, high-volume laser printers over individual personal printers for the following reasons:

• Personal printers lack the options and features in printers designed for large volume printing over a network. Personal printers are not built for heavy-duty loads. Overtaxing a personal printer will lead to premature breakdown. Network printers have higher rated monthly duty cycles that will let them churn out tens of thousands of pages a month (if needed) without breakdown.
• Network printers can be managed remotely. Utilities allow computing services staff to view the status of a printer and be notified of any problems immediately, and also to receive warnings of potential problems such as the fact that toner or paper is running low.
• Total cost of ownership is significantly less expensive for network printers since they can be easily standardized. There are three kinds of expenses to consider when purchasing equipment: acquisition, operational and management costs. Most of the costs of printers are the "people costs" of training, installation, management and downtime. It is expensive to maintain a mishmash of printers.