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Re: Printing services from dorm rooms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Watkins Jr.)
Tue Nov 2 12:53:04 1993
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 93 12:22:19 EST
From: lwatkins@nextlee.hcf.jhu.edu (Lee Watkins Jr.)
To: resnet@JHMAIL.HCF.JHU.EDU
Dan Mather said:
>Those of you who are offering free laser printing, have students kept printing
to the lasers at a minimum while still using other, cheaper printers for rough
drafts?
At the JHU Homewood campus, we do not charge for laser printing in the public
labs (we do from the central computer systems, and the two are not
intergrated... yet). We also do not have dot-matrix printers--the upkeep and
noise is just not worth the effort. We do (try to) limit students to one copy
of documents, which is sometimes an issue, since they often want to print, say,
50 copies of their resume. We also ask that they limit printing of documents
over 50 pages to off-hours.
Students are not entirely considerate of each other, and do print multiple
copies by accident (such as when it doesn't come out fast enough, they think it
got lost in the queue and send it again), so there is some contention for
resources. But, if they can put up with it, so can we, if that's what they
want. The Deans of Arts & Sciences and Engineering pay these printing costs,
so if the $50+ each year doesn't kill them...well, I could spend the money in
more useful ways, but that's another matter. We just use a *lot* of recycled
paper and toner cartridges!
Lee Watkins
Asst. Director of Academic Computing
Johns Hopkins University
