May 27, 2022
To Faculty and Staff:
A recent assessment of SUNY’s print landscape revealed that SUNY prints more than
50 million pages per month, and possesses more than 40,000 devices, of which approximately
50% are personal or desktop printers. This analysis, conducted by an independent print
consultant (Pharos), also determined that SUNY spends approximately $50M per year
on printing with color printing, accounting for more than 50% of the cost.
As a result, SUNY established the System-wide Print Resource Use Policy to support an initiative that seeks to reduce printing across all SUNY campuses
and calls on Farmingdale State College and all other system institutions to establish
campus goals to meet the following:
- Reduce the amount of printing and number of printers.
- Align to system-wide print standards.
- Limit printing to items essential for academic instruction or required to perform
and complete business needs.
- Achieve sustainability goals to reduce the college’s paper use, energy use, and carbon
footprint.
- Deploy software to monitor usage by individual, application, department, and device.
- Centralize campus print budgets under Information Technology.
- Enhance our cybersecurity protections through secure print release, utilizing your
badge and IT-managed networked printers.
In support of SUNY’s Managed Print Initiative, Farmingdale State College will be moving
forward with its own college-specific initiative starting this summer:
- Phase 1: Collect printing data to best understand our current fleet of printer hardware and
usage.
- Phase 2: Work with department leaders to ensure effective print options, reduce the number
of campus printers, and digitize our campus processes as much as possible.
- Phase 3: Migrate the campus over to a new centralized shared print management solution where
USB printers and single-function color printers will be removed.
Our goal is to achieve many benefits as a result of our commitment to reduce the amount
of printing on campus. We will save on consumables and electricity, reducing our carbon
footprint. We will achieve greater accountability and flexibility, and will experience
significant cost savings that can be reinvested into our College. Visit the FSC Managed Print Initiative webpage for the most current information about our support of this SUNY initiative.
Achieving our goals has the support of our leadership at FSC and will require the
participation of the entire Farmingdale community. Thank you in advance for your support.
The Managed Print Initiative Committee
