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From: chelsea@dartvax.UUCP (Karen Christenson)
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Subject: Re: Printout theft
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Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 21:48:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 21:48:31 1986
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Reply-To: chelsea@dartvax.UUCP (Karen Christenson)
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>>I would  be interested in hearing about IO arrangements at other
>>schools.

     At Dartmouth, there hasn't been a real problem with printout thefts;
certainly it was a new idea to me (but then, I'm not cut-throat).
     Students use DCTS (homegrown) or Unix; some have access to VMS, but it's
a research machine and few courses use it.  Each system has a line printer
in the machine room; there's also a QMS laser printer shared between DCTS
and Unix.  Output is delivered to a counter in the main public terminal room
every half hour or so (depending on how busy the ops are).  The day's output
goes on the top of the counter; output from the preceding four days (used to
be seven but that was too much paper) gets put in bins marked by days
underneath.  Before they renovated, there was room for a table specifically
for the output from course accounts.
     A number of the public clusters have remote printers which all of the
systems can access.  If you're not prompt about getting your printout, it
will probably wind up in the recycled paper box.
     With all the Macs on campus, we also have a number of Imagewriter
stations:  three or four at the computer center and one in each dormitory
cluster.  We had a real problem with people stealing ribbons and such;
usually we didn't replace them for a while.  Ribbons got changed when they
were *really* worn out and not just light (we guarantee output; quality
output you take care of yourself).  If there were major problems with abuse
of the printer station, it was pulled out of the cluster.  We also have
a couple of Laserwriters, but they're available only during business hours
because they wanted them stored someplace that got locked at night.
     Except for Laserwriter output, everything is free.  Laserwriter output
is $.25/page through the computer center or $.10 at the biomedical library
(but it's farther from the center of campus).  QMS output is free, but if
you make more than one copy of a file, you get only one copy and a nasty
note from the op about how the QMS is not a photocopier.  Files that are
longer than 20-30 pages shouldn't get printed on remote printers or the
terminal room assistant might abort the job and leave you half a printout
and a nasty note about hogging the printer.
     And that's the way it is ...

						Karen Christenson
"Mostly harmless."				...!dartvax!chelsea
			Have an adequate day.