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From: ELE@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeremy)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper
Message-ID: <91173.113646ELE@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 15:36:46 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1991Jun20.200247.29358@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew
T. Russotto) says:
>
>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.
>
>At $1 a page, I'll bet the local copy shops get a LOT of business.  Penn State
>probably doesn't have to replace toner too often either...

I did some research on this since I'm at PSU (grad).  The price across
campus is 25c per page from the vendacard (costs 50c) for a laserprinter hooked
to the Mac.

The best price I could find downtown is also 25c a page (Gnomen Copy) flat rate
although Kinko's was 25c/page for 30 or more copies, 50c/page for 10 or fewer.
The worst price was $2.50 a page from Kopease, who wanted to retype the
document as well as print it out.

Hope this helps.

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jeremy..                    I am the EFF                      ele@psuvm.psu.edu