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...it, and feeling it in their hands ever to give it up completely. Instead of chasing the ideal of eliminating paper, the authors conclude, we should be working toward future in which paper and electronic documents are used in concert, with tools and organizational processes designed to make the best use of both.
As far as Dave Baird is concerned, that future is already here. "We all know that paper isn't actually going away any time soon," says Baird, industry director for education at Kentucky-based Lexmark, a leading developer, manufacturer, and supplier of print and imaging solutions. "The paperless office--or classroom--is a myth. Today, it's all about capturing, managing, and sharing documents; it's about moving them back and forth between the physical and digital worlds."
All of the major printer-scanner-copier makers have the education market in their crosshairs, but Lexmark's new Education Station targets K-12 with a unique combination of hardware and software. The system bundles the Lexmark X646dte, a 50-pages-per-minute, monochrome multifunction printer (MFP), with applications designed to help elementary, middle, and high schools improve their document management processes. The MFP combines print, copy, scan, and tax capabilities, and comes with a large color touch-screen interface called eTask. The standard software bundle includes Lexmark's Scan to Classroom and Forms on Demand applications, which are designed to give teachers the ability to manage their own documents and reduce the time they spend on paperwork.
The Scan to Classroom application allows teachers to send evidence-of-work documents--say, student work that teachers may need for a parent conference-from the MFP directly to a personalized, preinstalled destination on the network-another teacher's e-mail perhaps. Office personnel can use the same icon to scan and e-mail tardy forms, doctors' notes, and permission slips directly to teachers. The Forms on Demand application gives teachers and administrators the ability to access and print files stored on the network directly from the Education Station.
The system is now in a pilot phase, and the company is set to introduce a set of testing and grading options meant to help teachers gather exam results...
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