Our new IT company, who have outsourced the printing, have been discovering some problems with this - as have my coworkers and I. For some reason, every single document type (letterhead, logo, plain) is a different print server. Not too bad so far, but if someone starts to print a letter before lunch, hits save and wanders off, or if the margins error (which they do on quite a few templates) then the server locks down. Today we had 90 prints waiting from a half hour period because literally the entire company uses this one server for letters.
It's not a terrible design, except that it relies on a little bit of intelligence from the users, and, given that this tends to happen every couple of days, clearly they're aiming a bit high.
Apart from that, they're having some issues with the network connections which means, given that our pcs (with the applications all installed on C drive) have been replaced by a network terminal (I can't remember the name of it, but all applications must be loaded from the network rather than being on the PC), that Word now takes two minutes to open a template, outlook freezes every time an email is sent and that if you're ambitious enough to open several applications at once, there's a good chance that you'll lose the network entirely for the next 5 minutes. The only good side is that now we have internet-based telephones, you're not going to get any calls through whilst your computer's frozen.
It's not a terrible design, except that it relies on a little bit of intelligence from the users, and, given that this tends to happen every couple of days, clearly they're aiming a bit high.
Apart from that, they're having some issues with the network connections which means, given that our pcs (with the applications all installed on C drive) have been replaced by a network terminal (I can't remember the name of it, but all applications must be loaded from the network rather than being on the PC), that Word now takes two minutes to open a template, outlook freezes every time an email is sent and that if you're ambitious enough to open several applications at once, there's a good chance that you'll lose the network entirely for the next 5 minutes. The only good side is that now we have internet-based telephones, you're not going to get any calls through whilst your computer's frozen.
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