TORRINGTON — The school board voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize a five-year lease with Advanced Copy Technologies, pending review of the fine print.
The vote could spell the beginning of the end for desktop printers, though administrators took pains to address concerns expressed by teachers.
Superintendent Christopher G. Leone said the district's inventory of desktop printers costs about $225,000 every five years, including the cost of equipment purchase, ink and toner. The district also spends a considerable amount of staff time maintaining those printers, Leone said. Business Manager Danielle Batchelder said the Cromwell firm will supply, at no charge, software to analyze the use of desktop printers, and expects to produce a 70 percent reduction in the budget for printers.
Leone said teachers who emailed the central office following a recent Republican-American article about the proposal expressed concern that removal of desktop printers from classrooms could compromise the security of sensitive documents. Leone said each teacher would have to input a security code before the copy machine would begin producing printouts, and that would alleviate security concerns.
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