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Re: Printer locks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Davis)
Sat Mar 23 17:18:59 2002
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Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 17:14:27 -0500
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From: Kevin Davis <ksdavis@FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <p05100314b8c1a6fd8a33@[171.64.136.133]>
I brought up this suggestion on the list a few months ago and there were
some helpful responses; it might be worth taking a peek through the
archives. A few of suggestions I remember, at least pertaining to paper
theft (which is our big problem with our 20 LaserJet 4000/4100s) were:
1) One school got their faculty to agree to accept jobs on three-hole-
punched paper, and only stocked their distributed printers with such paper
(useful for academic work, terrible for personal printing of resumes,
etc.!)
2) Only having supervised printers (at res hall check-in desks, etc.)
3) A homemade locking mechanism around the trays
4) Having students use their own paper on the printers.
Thanks for the heads-up on Versalock -- I know I'll definitely check that
out.
+-----------------------------------------
|Kevin Davis
|Coordinator of Residential Computing
|FAS Computer Services, Harvard University
|ksdavis@fas.harvard.edu * 617.496.6064
Quoting "Surajit A. Bose" <surajit@STANFORD.EDU>:
> Hi,
>
> We have about 75 HP LaserJet 4000 series printers scattered over
> campus. Is there any way to lock the paper trays so that students
> can't (1) steal paper (2) break the drawers (3) jam the printer by
> stuffing too much paper in the tray? We're trying a lock made by
> Versalock (www.versalock.com, if it's up--the site is frequently
> down). The Versalock solution is serviceable, but we're wondering if
> there's anything better out there.
>
> Thanks,
> -s
> (who usually doesn't use the royal "we"; honest, folks, that was a
> collective "we")
>
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