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From: n8743196@unicorn.WWU.EDU (jeff wandling)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: laser printer fees
Keywords: we pay through the nose.
Message-ID: <1091@unicorn.WWU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jun 90 05:05:47 GMT
Reply-To: n8743196@unicorn.WWU.EDU (jeff wandling)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
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At our fine university, LaTeX and all it's cousins are available for
student use.

Currently, the powers that be at Western charge 25 cents per page
for laser printed output. There are no free-bees, there is no
experimenting; if you send it to the laser printer, you just coughed
up two bits per page.

We, the students have to live with this or the machines will disappear
we are told. I guess you need a small fortune to learn how to use
LaTeX, troff, etc...

I'd like to know if this asinine policy is popular with other system
administrators. If you could please e-mail me the low-down (cost, how
it works, who pays who) about your laser printer use, I'd appreciate
it. I'm compiling such information to help me do battle in getting the
price per page lower.

thanks in advance!

ps. Even if you are not a system administrator, *please* respond about
your situation or if you have suggestions.

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@desc me=jeff wandling  n8743196@unicorn.wwu.edu jeff@arthur.wwu.edu