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>Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:10:11 -0500
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>Subject: Re: #5582 Printing Costs
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When we first introduced laser printing on campus several years ago, we
charged 10 cents per page.  The printer was (and is still) behind the
counter and students have to ask for their prints.  As other labs added
printers and had no way of charging or collecting for prints, we stopped
charging but asked students to only print "language related" materials.

This year, I got a color laser printer, tho only public color printer on
campus.  With no easy system in place to deduct charges from student
accounts, I am experimenting with free color printing.  I have not
advertised the fact that the printer is here and that prints are free.  The
biggest use so far is by faculty.  I plan to re-examine the costs each
semester to determine if it is getting too expensive for my department and
then come up with some sort of cost per print.


Tom Browne


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Thomas Browne          Director, Humanities Resource Center
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