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Forgive me if this has been discussed in the several months I have been off
the list...

Over the past several years, we have always tried to find an equitable,
seamless way to recover some of the costs associated with providing laser
printers in our public labs. We have about 600 public-access and we would
like to reduce the volume of printing, if not get back all the costs
associated with same. At the moment, all laser printing is free. To
complicate the matter, we don't have users of the labs log in using a unique
ID, they all just log in as a generic workstation ID. This means that in
order to start accounting for costs, we would first have to come up with a
way to have lab users log in as themselves. In a Novell environment like
ours, with about 22,000 faculty and students, this could get to be a
technical nightmare.

My knee-jerk reaction is to continue to provide free printing, as I think
the cost of doing this will be less than the cost of trying to engineer and
implement another solution.

How are others handling this situation? If you can send my your thoughts,
plans and schemes via e-mail, I will summarize to the mailing list. Thanks
in advance.
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 Tony Townsend, Microcomputer Infrastructure Manager, Info.Tech. & Comm.
 530 McCormick Rd., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22906
 Tony@virginia.edu - 804-982-4713 - Fax 804-982-4715