Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!grissom.larc.nasa.gov!kludge From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper Message-ID: <1991Jun21.133450.8444@news.larc.nasa.gov> Date: 21 Jun 91 13:34:50 GMT References: <1991Jun20.194517.29237@eng.umd.edu> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Reply-To: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center Lines: 19 In article <1991Jun20.194517.29237@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes: >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. Yes, but of course if students brought in their own paper it wouldn't cost so much to keep the printers running, either. I would have no problem with this. --scott