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From: mmoore%hellgate.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.205525.25667@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 02:55:25 GMT
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In article <IcLyeuu00j5uE1oo0c@andrew.cmu.edu>, jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes:
> 
> I heard that at Penn State, they changed the laser printers so that
> they need to recieve verification before they print - this comes in
> the form of a card-reader which reads their venda-card and charges
> them $1 a page for printouts from the laser printers.  Sounds workable
> to me - though I've not too much information about it.
> 


	Sounds workable, yes.  But it also sounds rediculously expensive.
Does one sheet of laser printing really cost that much?  Here at the 
University of Utah undergrads have quotas, and so long as we are under quota, 
no charges are incurred.  Should we need more than our quota of paper, we can
buy more, but it most certainly isn't a dollar a page.  I think a quarter
is more reasonable.  

Michael Moore
(University of Utah)

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"News Flash: Penn State Riot"

  '....many casualties as students held hostage several University 
   administrators, demanding a 75% decrease in laser printing costs...'
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