2021-01-14 Meeting notes - Print-a-palooza

Date

Jan 14, 2021 2-3:30 pm

Attendees

@Tom Bustos , co-chair
@Carlo Medina (Unlicensed) , co-chair
@Lakshmi Arunachalam
@Ramon Barcia
@Susan Boone
@Greg Ferguson
@Jackie Gosselar
@Lynne E. Grigsby
@Robin Gustafson
@Jeremy Hobbs
@Gillian Keleher
@Sarah Lindsey
@Caitlin Nelson , on leave
@Alison Ray (CDL)
@Lena Zentall (Unlicensed) , PM

Participants: 69

Discussion items

	Item	Desired Outcome	Time	Who	Notes	Decisions	Actions

	Item	Desired Outcome	Time	Who	Notes	Decisions	Actions
1	Opener	Welcome and intention of the meeting Presentation slides available in this folder (viewable by all): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Mk7kEiksbq54WZZZ91sy3701Bz3zRVli?usp=sharing	15	Jeremy
2	Presentation	SpineOmatic & AEM/Namtuck	15	Ramon Barcia, Dennis Vice	“Printers are the scorn of IT departments. Printers will always suck” SpineOmatic used for spine labels and Namtuck used for receipt printing Survey done to determine printing equip currently used at UC by Alma campuses. See slide 3 in UCR presentation. Thoughts on printer hardware: Keep in mind: Make sure that your receipt printers are networked and NOT simply connected via USB to workstations. Each printer will need a dedicated IP address. Margins are also important to keep in mind. If a 1”-wide label is used but SpineOmatic is instead configured at 2”… you will have a blank label ejected out of the spine label printer. Slips can be printed using a standard networked laser printer and not necessarily on receipt printers. Ex Libris recently recommends the use of Quick Printing in Alma over sending emails and using Namtuk AEM.
3		Quick Printing at UCI	10	Lakshmi Arunachalam, Lai Arakawa	Ex Libris recommends Quick Printing. It’s browser-based and easy to setup. Printing capabilities are based on your browser. UCI Fulfillment is only using printing for paging slips; uses them for hold slips. If you select multiple items, Quick Printing creates a single PDF to print. How are the page breaks? It prints one slip per page. Exploring print queuing.
4		No Printing at UCSC	10	Gillian Keleher, Sarah Lindsey	UCSC used Alma implementation to simplify many policies and practices. Stopped printing receipts. Using email instead. No negative consequences experienced! Record of receipts and notices are in the Alma patron record - more reliable for verifying checkins/checkouts. Environmentally friendly!! Using Spine-o-matic for printing labels. It’s working well; have not had to fix anything. Use Quick Printing to print from the browser for staff.
5		Printing Hardware	10	Dennis Vice
6	Q/A	Q/A	30	All	How about printing labels for serials? SpineOmatic lets you configure how you’d like serials, sudoc, etc. to look. And what type of receipt printers are people using that DO work (have ethernet connection). See slide 3 “Current snapshot of Alma campuses using printing” in UCR presentation. Star-TSP 743 receipt printers (networked). Zebra GX430t - spine label printer (networked). Printing presentation, CSU: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yrSYWk-zsnPMZAH6A70I4EooPGiFRrQ-cOALHAprVO0/edit#slide=id.p14 UCB prints orders to PDF, then emails PDF. Can orders be bundled and emailed? Yes, you need the correct email in the vendor record. You can configure templates in Alma. Do any of the Alma libraries print out bindery slips? Most were not sure. UCI does not. Note: Output field in SpineOmatic is the only place you can edit (e.g., add call numbers.) Once it’s in the queue, you cannot edit. Tip: take a screenshot of your configuration in case you accidentally edit it. by chance is there a slack channel or email distribution list we can join for help or share frustration? Use the UC Alma list!
7		TOTAL	75/90		Ended by 3:13