Printer aging-time "best practice"

Hi,
Our new printers are loosing their ip address'es after some time with no use...
I guess that they are not sending any frames onto the port, and the aging-time on the vlan is kicking in.
And when reading this forum a few suggestions comes up.
Changing aging-time on vlan for printers. (are there any known caveats changing this?)
Static mac address settings on port (we have ~500 printers, so that feels somewhat funky)
How do you guys handle this?
This is a normal port config for our printer ports on a 2960 tc-l 12.2(58)SE1.
interface FastEthernet0/21
description printerVlan
switchport access vlan 3
switchport mode access
switchport nonegotiate
switchport block multicast
switchport block unicast
switchport voice vlan 2
switchport port-security maximum 3
switchport port-security
switchport port-security aging time 2
switchport port-security violation restrict
switchport port-security aging type inactivity
switchport port-security aging static
srr-queue bandwidth share 10 10 60 20
priority-queue out
mls qos trust cos
storm-control broadcast level 10.00
auto qos voip trust
no cdp enable
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpdufilter enable
All ideas are welcome.
Regards Falk

If you create a new ASO (remember, this does not work in BSO) database, right click in the outline (okay, the completely blank outline).
You should see a pop up menu with "Create date-time dimension..."
I should also note that you have to click on the word "Outline: dbname" to do this.
I wonder if you are trying to do this in a BSO app as that will make the menu item show up unselected.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

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