Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!pirmann From: pirmann@aramis.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 18:27:45 GMT References: <1429@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> Organization: Rutgers University LCSR Lines: 18 There was a discussion here at Rutgers a while back on how to prevent non-comp sci students from using computer science equipment. Currently the unattended Macintosh labs have dot matrix printers which are inadequate for the needs. To install laser printers in an unattended lab would mean that non-comp-sci students would use them as word processing stations and comp sci students would have to wait. Some of the solutions were: use bright orange paper and black toner or white paper and colored toner (assuming this would discourage people who want to print a thesis or other paper, while the comp sci professors would know about the procedure and accept it), or hack the Mac Laserwriter driver to print "DCS STUDENT PRINTOUT" faintly underneath the regular printing (this would be overridden by people with unhacked laserwriter drivers on their system disks). While this might not cut down on excessive student use of resources, it would certainly make sure that only the right students use the equipment that is provided for a particular use.