3D printing...Well, that escalated quickly.

[mikegideon]

Confidential networked printer? C'mon guys, this isn't rocket surgery?

 

The problem becomes Sue in HR needs a confidential printer cause she needs to fire that Dolomite guy who just can't hold a job down ( ;) ). Bob, the VP of paperclips figures he outranks Sue so he needs to have a printer too cause the Viagra just ain't cutting it like it used to. Then everyone at his level has to have one and before you know it, the only people without a printer, six 42" widescreen monitors, laptops and a standby Swedish Masseuse are the low-level working SOBs who could actually use them.

 

If we don't give them what they need, Sue will be processing my paperwork. Sue can't actually fire anybody, except for her assistant. She DOES know how, though. We don't have a VP of paperclips. Nobody gets hardware unless it goes through me or my IT guy. Being a department head myself, I'm involved in most of that confidential information. Yes, some of them need their own printers. Agreed, not rocket surgery, but we don't make shoelace tips either. We have had things leak out of our building that hit the national trade publications in less than an hour. Sue almost had to do some paperwork on that too.

[Jonnin]

Printers are a wealth of info.  Most of the big ones on a network in a business remember everything printed or copied, and its not too hard to slice into that on some models.  You can get people's personal copies and faxes etc as well as juicy business related tidbits.   Um, maybe I should stop here.