Question

Criteria for Wireless, All-in-One Printers

The Rogue River Auto Store is a new and used car dealership that also sells parts and service. The company wants to replace eight older model printers with new models located in various departments in the dealership.

The staff at Rogue prints large volumes of predominately black-and-white documents. They would like printers with multifunction (all-in-one) capabilities, such as scanning, printing, faxing, and copying. The management at Rogue would also like to be able to connect the printers to the wireless network recently installed in their store. Wireless printers have the advantage of being portable, so they could be moved to any part of the store as needed.

The management at Rogue would like you to investigate the characteristics of wireless all-in- one printers and design a spreadsheet with evaluation criteria for selecting the new printers. Design your spreadsheet so you can evaluate several models of printers. You can use Internet resources or other resources, such as those described in this chapter, to help you develop the evaluation criteria. For instance, one criterion could be related to the cost of supplies (such as the per-page cost of a printed sheet). When you have a tentative list of factors to evaluate, compare the criteria you developed with those of your school or work colleagues. Did they suggest criteria you could add to your spreadsheet?

When you have a final list of criteria, choose some weights for each criterion. Before finalizing your spreadsheet, compare your weights with those identified by your colleagues. Are the weights they chose similar to yours? Where are they significantly different? Try to narrow the differences in weights.

Finally, pick a couple of models of printers to research that you think will meet Rogue’s needs and fill in as much of your spreadsheet as you can. If possible, pick the same printer models as your colleagues so you can compare your results with theirs. Discuss any significant

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Q1) Design your spreadsheet so you can evaluate several models of printers. You can use Internet resources or other resources, such as those described in this chapter, to help you develop the evaluation criteria

Printer Name/Model#	Special Features	Cost(in INR)
HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 3835	Print,Copy,Scan, Fax Colored Copy, Scan and Fax multipage documents with Automatic Document Feeder Print easily with your Smartphone/Tablet wirelessly 5.5cm(2.2 inch) touch mono display Mobile Printing Capability: HP ePrint, Apple AirPrint Low Cost Ink Cartridges Printer: Inkjet Output: Color Interface: USB, Wireless	5999
HP DeskJet Ink Tank GT 5820 Multi-function Wireless Printer	Printing Method - Inkjet Printing Output - Monochrome, Color Printer Languages - HP PCL 3 GUI Functions - Print, Scan, Copy Brand - HP Refill Type - Refillable Ink Tank Ideal Usage -Home & Small Office. OS - Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7: 32-bit or 64-bit, Apple® OS X Yosemite (v10.10) OS X Mavericks (v10.9), OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8). USB support - USB 2.0 Wireless Support - 802.11 B/G/N	11,499
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M126nw Multi-function Wireless Printer	Printing Method - Laser Type - Multi-function Display - 2 - line LCD (Text) Printing Output - Monochrome Functions - Copy, Print, Scan Refill Type - Toner Cartridge Ideal Usage - Business Input tray type - Standard Cassette Hard Drive - Windows: (8, 7, Vista) (32-bit, 64-bit), XP (32-bit): 200 MB Available Hard Disk Space Required (CD and Web Package), 400 MB Available Hard Disk Space Required Memory - Windows (8, 7, Vista) (32-bit, 64-bit), XP (32-bit): 512 MB RAM Installed Other System Requirements - USB or Network Port, CD-ROM / DVD or Internet Operating System - Windows: 8 (32-bit, 64-bit), 7 (32-bit, 64-bit), Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), XP (32-bit), Mac	18799
HP LaserJet Pro MFP M132fw Multi-function Wireless Printer	Printing Method - Laser Type - Multi-function Display - 2.7 inch Touch Screen LCD (Color Graphics) Printing Output - Monochrome Printer Languages - PCLmS, URF, PWG Internal Memory - 256 MB Functions - Print, Copy, Scan, Fax Brand - HP Refill Type - Toner Cartridge Ideal Usage - Business Print from iPhone and iPad with AirPrint 1.5 which Automatically Scales Jobs to the Correct Paper Size, Print with the Ease of Sending an Email Right from a Smartphone, Tablet, or Notebook Using HP ePrint, Print Directly from Mobile Device to Wi-Fi Direct Printer without Accessing the Company Network, Send Jobs from Smartphone, Tablet, or PC to Any Company Printer Using Google Cloud Print 2.0, Produce Sharp Text, Bold Blacks and Crisp Graphics with Precision Black Toner, Track Remaining Pages with Print Gauge Technology and Get More Pages than Ever with Page Maximizer Technology. Other System Requirements - Processor Speed: 600 MHz Operating System - Windows (32-bit): XP SP3, Vista, Windows (32-bit or 64-bit): 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Mac: OS X Sierra (v10.12), OS X El Capitan (v10.11), OS X Yosemite (v10.10). Ethernet Support - 10/100Base-TX Network Port USB support - USB 2.0 Wireless Support - Yes, 802.11b/g/n	25499

Q2) When you have a tentative list of factors to evaluate, compare the criteria you developed with those of your school or work colleagues. Did they suggest criteria you could add to your spreadsheet?

The List of factors for my decision will include the following:-

• Connection possible via both USB and Wireless Medium.
• No. of Pages that can be printed as per Printer Capacity
• DPI/Maximum Resolution of print per page as per ink available
• Suitable for Home/Small Scale business/Large Scale Business
• Operating System Supported (Windows 7,8,10)/Mac
• Cost of the printer that would fit my budget.
• Maximum no of pages that printer can store in one time memory and print all.
• Printer Dimensions and Weights as based on this we can choose where to install the printer in room/office/workplace.
• Availability of Ink Catridges used for that model in the market so as to enhance reorder of catridges when it run too low.

Q3) When you have a final list of criteria, choose some weights for each criterion. Before finalizing your spreadsheet, compare your weights with those identified by your colleagues

Criteria Based	Weight Assigned(out of 5)	Reason for Assignment
Connecting Devices/Medium	4	The Printer model so selected should have multiple modes of connection to various devices via LAN, Bluetooth, USB Port and Wireless Mediums.
Cost of printer	5	The printer cost should be budget friendly as per the designated budget so that it doesnt sound too expensive, while purchasing
Brand of Manufacturer	4	The printer's Manufacturer plays a key role in manufacturing such printers in the Market as their reputation and image both are at stake. eg-HP, Epsom, Canon, Brother, etc
Resolution of Printing	4	The printing quality plays an important key role in deciding which printer we can buy and this also depends on printing method(Laser, Inkjet, Dot-Matrix, DaisyWheel, etc)
Dimensions and Weight	3	The Printer dimensions and weight should be reasonable enough so as to allow it to be installed without much hasle and can be shifted from one place to another if needed. Thus printer weight should be as optimal as possible.

Q4) Finally, pick a couple of models of printers to research that you think will meet Rogue’s needs and fill in as much of your spreadsheet as you can

• HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 3835 All-in-One Multi-function Wireless Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP M126nw Multi-function Wireless Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP M132fw Multi-function Wireless Printer
• Canon E560 Multi-function Inkjet Printer
• Brother DCP-1616NW Multi-function Printer
• HP LaserJet Pro MFP M132nw Multi-function Wireless Printer
• Epson M205 Multi-function Wireless Printer
• Brother DCP 1616NW Multi-function Wireless Printer

Please let me know in case of any clarifications required. Thanks!