Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper Message-ID: <1991Jun20.194517.29237@eng.umd.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 19:45:17 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 19 In article pirmann@aramis.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) writes: >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). One problem with these solutions are that in the first, students can bring their own paper, and colored toner, if I am not mistaken, costs more than black toner. One interesting solution might be to intentionally degrade the output by smudging some toner on the corona wire, leaving a black streak down one side. -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu .sig under construction, like the rest of this campus.