Due to a history of persistent technical issues and malfunctions related to printers and copy machines across campus, Lincoln Park has elected to replace those godforsaken machines with human scribes.
Printers are some of the least reliable devices in a modern computer environment, and that is a problem that is tackled by institutions worldwide. It especially affects those with a reliance on physical media, such as schools.
From paper jams to ink replacements, printing papers comes with a lot of complications, which leads to frequent maintenance and persistent costs.
Lincoln Park has devised a unique solution to this issue: eliminate machines from the equation entirely.
Human scribes might work slower but in the long term are more reliable and consistent by a large margin. Provided with a digital document, a human scribe can create one or several physical copies with only a slight reduction in accuracy.
Although this minor hit to accuracy might seem like a fairly significant issue, it comes with dramatically less downtime to balance the trade-off. In the eyes of the school’s administration, this is more than worth it.
The greatest anxiety surrounding the transition is a human one. There will be a period of acclimation to the new environment, as there is with any significant change, particularly on the grounds of the technology we use and interact with. This period of acclimation is expected to last only a couple years.
The rollout of the new system is expected as early as the 2026-2027 school year, though it remains to be seen whether it will be delayed another year due to difficulties finding staff in the area.
When the rollout begins, it can be expected that most printers will be removed from campus, and scribes will be set up in their place. One printer may remain on campus for an undetermined amount of time as a backup, though plans currently in place call for it to eventually be removed, as well.
