Originally posted by TheMetzyMom: We bought the risograph for our school. It was our group purchase 3 years ago. It is a puchase nobody ever regrets.
No, it isn't the one that smells funny...lol... that would be a mimeograph machine. I think...
Yeah, mimeograph is what I was thinking of....sssssmmmmmmmm oh yeah...good times being an office aide in high school...I can still smell it! Maybe that's what wrong with me!!!!!!
Other than your monthly newsletter or mass flyers, you probably wouldn't use it. But the school sure would! They run around $6K for a good one.
I have an idea for you: Couldn't you purchase a copy machine (as well as the other things you need and are denied use of)? Seems to me that purchasing a copy machine for the parent group would fall under most, if not all, mission statements. Your machine wouldn't have to be new, so you could save a couple bucks there if you needed to. Or the next one that gets purchased by your group for the school, set it up with account numbers for each teacher and set your group a number as well. This way, everyone gets X amount of copies (the one we just bought for our school gives everyone between 200 and 500 copies depending on need), including your group. This prevents overages and any one class/grade from using ALL the copies permitted in any given month. As a last resort, you could as the office manager to assign you an account on the current machine. Also, if your volunteers do most of the copying for the school, you could purchase a risograph for your group to do the copying on and not donate it persay, to the school. It would be a purchase for the school, but for use by your group...
OK--so what does a risograph go for?? Is it big like a commercial copier? Though I don't know why I would even consider it--I could just see us buying it and then being denied use of it!
We bought the risograph for our school. It was our group purchase 3 years ago. It is a puchase nobody ever regrets.
No, it isn't the one that smells funny...lol... that would be a mimeograph machine. I think...
You know what's sad--I don't even know if we have one! Not that it would matter--my group isn't allowed to use the copiers anyway.
Michelle--are you drinking? You're the best--how could I take offense to anything you say? [img]tongue.gif[/img] This is why I love these boards and everyone who contributes--HONEST answers!
I realize it's not an unreasonable request, but it's so IRRITATING--especially when you're as unorganized and rushed as I am a lot of the time! It was just so much easier for me to go "after hours" when my husband was home and could sit with the three-year old, especially since I have to use Staples to make our copies, and sometimes it's impossible to get in to use one until later in the day.
This is one battle I wasn't taking--like everyone has said, it's not an unreasonable request, but you know the history with this woman, and it's just another thing for her to be a nudge about.
