ATTN: College Students!

[penmage]

If you are in college/university (or heck, if you were recently and you're not anymore, but want to fill this out anyway), this poll's for you. I'm doing a bit of research on printing systems in different colleges. All your input would be greatly appreciated.


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Feel free to add anything else you have to say in comments - if you have an opinion on said printing system, etc etc. Thanks!

Comments

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

I ran the computer labs at UMass for four years. UMass doesn't have a quota, but in the labs you can only print out documents of a certain length, and no multiple copies. (We will let someone print out a 40 page paper, if they do it in three chunks. That's mostly a matter of not tying up the printers so that other people's jobs can't go through.) UMass BADLY needs a semesterly quota, though, because people abuse the system like crazy, and student employees get TONS of abuse heaped on them just for trying to enforce badly-needed rules. (I absolutely hate using this term, but I kid you not when I say that one girl called me a "fucking cunt," right there while I was working with the "MANAGER" ID around my neck, because I wouldn't let her print her entire semester's powerpoint class notes all at once in a super-busy lab when people were trying to print papers. Hers was a 600 page print job. I threw her out.) For all I know they finally instituted a limit this year.

At BU, there's a semester quota. I think it's probably 500 pages, but I'm not sure -- I'm pretty sure the grad student quota is higher than the undergrad, because you have to print out several copies of your 100-page thesis to graduate. We get library books for five months at a time, too.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Printing on the library computers is pretty much a free and clear process, as far as I can tell. You still need to pay for the copier, though.

[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

OSU changes their fee amounts constantly. When I first started there it was free, but low quality dot matrix. Then it became $.05 per page, but good quality ink jet. Then for a while it was free for the ink jet, $.10 for the laser. I think it's $.07 for laser exclusively, tho they may have dropepd the charge again. It was always a crapshoot trying to print anything at the labs; you were always better off doing it yourself at home. -H...

[oyceter]

Printing is pretty much free at any cluster at Princeton, no limits at all (as is laundry). Well, free as in included in tuition, or something.

They instituted a system about two years ago in which you had to log in to a printing station which recorded how many pages total you had printed ever... I think they were just trying to keep track. I think they may also be considering the possibility of charging above x number of pages or something if they track the numbers over some time and it gets ridiculous.

[demon-mistress.livejournal.com]

In the main lab, you're limited to I think 10 pages. However, my department (Computer Systems Technology), has it's own lab, and no one monitors what you print in there. (I think they're supposed to, but they don't. They just dump printouts into a cardboard box and let people sort through them.)

Also, depending on the prof, you can get away with printing a shitload of stuff during class.

To avoid all of this madness, however, I usually just print stuff at work, where I'm in a computer room all by myself, and no one knows *what* I'm doing at any given moment.