I am responsible for the printers in our company. This means my team fixes them and if needed, replaces them. We stopped long ago buying small personal printers and have gone for more work center type printers for a couple of reasons. first they are cheaper for us to operate, the cost per print, even color is cheaper than any of the small printers so we save money. Second, small printers eat up a lot of power so it is cheaper to operate one larger printer instead of 10 smaller printers. The problem comes when a small printer dies or a group is moving. People are more attached to their printer than they are to their children! I had a half an hour argument with someone because they would have to walk two more cubes away to get the things they printed. Don’t get me started on the paper trays, I can’t tell you how many times I have had to hear how important a person is and how valuable what they print out is. I have answered all of the questions about being able to secure print and what if scenarios which never happen just so they can justify me moving the printer ten feet closer to them. Today I get to go talk to someone who went against the rules and bought one for their office. I can hear the argument, after all, her neighbor has one! I wish I had the power to just swoop in and take them all, but if I did, I am sure I would find an angry mob with pitchforks at my cube soon after!