(1) from "Sarah Withee" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Subject: RE: #9110 lab printer control issues
>Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:11:06 -0600
Colorado College uses a system called go print, which requires students to
release the print job from the station right next to the printer before it
will actually print. This has somewhat diminished the volume of
unclaimed printouts in our lab, although we still have some trouble with
that issue.
Sarah
Sarah Withee
Academic Technology Specialist for the Humanities
Colorado College
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Well, charging the students for printer can be applied similar to what
libraries do like at Old Dominion University. It is just the matter if
the college is willing to spend the money to extend the software and buy
the appropriate hardware to the individual labs. Try to contact
Northern Virginia Community College's department of auxiliary services
to find out what they use. At NVCC's open computer labs, students send
print jobs and then have to either swipe their ID or print card to
release the document.
Jason Vance
Language Learning Center Supervisor
Thomas Nelson Community College
(757) 825- 2819
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We are having the same problem here in the LARC at GSU, and the costs are
getting astronomical. As a result, beginning summer semester we are dropping
the mandatory lab fee from $15 to $10, but at the same time installing a Pharoes
printer control on the printer. In effect, this passes the direct cost of the
printing back to the students. Each student at GSU has $3 of "free" printing
available (60 pages) on their student id cards and has to pay .05 for any
additional pages.
I'm not sure if the Pharoes system is proprietary to GSU or not.
Trish Early
Patricia N. Early
Language Lab Coordinator
Department of Modern and Classical Languages
Georgia State University
404-413-5987
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Susan,
We've implemented GoPrint as a print management solution on campus. Though it
allows for charging students, we have no plans to do so. Since the system
involves a release station at the printer, the student has to go up to the
printer, swip their ID card and then they can release jobs to be printed. Since
they are standing right there, they rarely forget to pick them up.
We have pretty good data that indicates this system is responsible for at least
a 20% decrease in lab printing across campus.
If you'd like more information about our setup, you can contact our Student
Computing Coordinator, Kevin Chapman at [log in to unmask]
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Academic Technologies
Carleton College | 507-222-7010 | [log in to unmask]
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You should have a "release station" at the printer, so the job doesn't
print until they walk up to the printer and swipe their ID or enter a
username/password. This pretty much eliminated the problem for us. By
"release station" I mean a computer that does nothing but authenticate for
the print jobs. Ours have a card swipe attached through the USB port.
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Center for Instructional Technology / Instructional Media & Language
Technology Services
Duke University
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