Many printers weren’t functioning Monday for students and staff’s first day back from break after being reprogrammed with upgrades and renamed by new IT systems specialist Oriole Saah during the break.

As third quarter comes to a close, this posed a problem for both students and teachers as students tried to turn work in on time and teachers tried to put in final grades.

“It’s very frustrating,” Japanese teacher Yukiyo Moorman said. “Students cannot turn in their assignments on the due date because they can’t print them out. It’s the end of the marking period—how will a teacher handle that?”

To help anyone who needed to use the printers, Dr. Goodwin announced that students having difficulties printing their assignments before first period were excused from the work and could turn it in late.

Despite poor timing, the updates were necessary to make the printing system more efficient, business manager Libby Hillard said, although the intent was to reroute the printers, not shut them down.

“If the job hadn’t been done, they could not have moved forward with the new printer updates,” Hillard said.

Goodwin and Hillard have both said that they are encouraging teachers to log out of their computer accounts and then log back in. With this solution, the printers should be working by tomorrow, Hillard said.

“It’s a shame that it had to be done now,” librarian Virginia Trulio said. “But we ask that students be forgiving with this.”