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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Managing laser output in a student
Message-ID: <2644@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 18 Apr 88 17:11:38 GMT
References: <6908@j.cc.purdue.edu> <46100124@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: Why don't you try doing it for free...

In article <46100124@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> ajq@j.cc.purdue.edu(John O'Malley) writes in comp.sys.mac
> >We're in the early planning stages of setting up an open-access Macintosh
> >lab for the Purdue campus.  We'll have lotsa networked Macs and probably a
> >couple of LaserWriters.  We might charge for laser printouts.
> 	Here at the University of Illinois, that is exactly what we do.  We have
> attached a card reader to each of the public access LaserWriters which is then
> attached to its own Macintosh (trying to handle the card reader through a 
> shared (networked) system DOES NOT WORK TOO WELL (causes a LOT of hassles)).

Here at Ball State, we already have a public access Macintosh lab with laser
printers (right now just two LW Plus's; next year we'll add two IINT's).  
We do not charge students to use these printers.  We see it a more of a way
to entice students.  They see the output and say 'I want my reports to look
like that'.  The purpose of our program is computer competency, and this falls
into that program very well.  So we feel that the costs involved are justified.

Michael Niehaus
Ball State University
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