Prompting the users to choose is MY first choice, but managers don't like this idea. Most users would probably know a location, but not an actual printer name. Not a problem as long as I meet with the managers and find out how they want the printers identified.
However, there are often 4 or 5 printers on one nursing unit (our units are set up with a central station and multiple small hubs around it). It seems like a good idea to name it based upon location, but we are constantly re-arranging our nursing units and they take their printers with them. So, naming a printer q-room2303 wasn't a good idea. Now it is in room 1169. Very messy. If I could live with renaming the printers each time a move occurred, it wouldn't be that bad.
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