POLICY: Printing At Home

POLICY: Printing At Home

Printing at home on a personally owned printer is not supported, and will not be reimbursed by Gravis Law.  While rare, employees who need to regularly print from home will be supplied a Gravis Law printer and supplies when:

  1. A Gravis Law office for printing is sufficiently far or otherwise inaccessible for an extended period of time, and
  2. Documents cannot be printed by a local office, and
  3. A manager and appropriate exec team member have signed off that printing at home is a requirement of the job

Important things to note:

  1. Printing is monitored using Printix, and utilization will be closely monitored.  Printing personal documents, or printing from a personal computer, to a Gravis Law supplied printer will be grounds for disciplinary action
  2. Printing of work documents on personal printers will not be reimbursed.
  3. If a printer is approved for home, the printer and all supplies remain the property of Gravis Law and must be returned when requested.

Acceptable printer at home scenarios - examples

  1. An employee working in the Seattle region, who cannot go in to the office, and who is required to turn in printed copies locally to the court​

Not acceptable printer at home scenarios - examples:

  1. The need to print items to be mailed out (including printing postage).  These items can be printed to a remote office and mailed out by a local file clerk at that location.
  2. Printing at home to review/red-line a document.  Documents should be reviewed digitally whenever possible
  3. Printing at home to sign and then scan a document.  Documents should be digitally signed unless a wet signature is legally required.  Tech Help can assist in capturing your signature to place on documents in Adobe Acrobat
  4. Printing at home when living within driving range of a Gravis Law office.  Supplies are significantly cheaper and devices in the office have vendor support for breakage.
  5. Scanning documents at home when regularly scanning  <50 pages a month.  OneDrive and Acrobat for a smartphone can take clear photos of documents and turn them into PDFs



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