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Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper

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From: David Pirmann
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 18:27
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There was a discussion here at Rutgers a while back on how to prevent
non-comp sci students from using computer science equipment.  Currently
the unattended Macintosh labs have dot matrix printers which are 
inadequate for the needs.  To install laser printers in an unattended lab
would mean that non-comp-sci students would use them as word processing
stations and comp sci students would have to wait.

Some of the solutions were: use bright orange paper and black toner or
white paper and colored toner (assuming this would discourage people
who want to print a thesis or other paper, while the comp sci professors
would know about the procedure and accept it), or hack the Mac Laserwriter
driver to print "DCS STUDENT PRINTOUT" faintly underneath the regular
printing (this would be overridden by people with unhacked laserwriter
drivers on their system disks).

While this might not cut down on excessive student use of resources,
it would certainly make sure that only the right students use the
equipment that is provided for a particular use.
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From: pirmann@aramis.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann)
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Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper
Message-ID: <Jun.19.14.27.43.1991.26118@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 18:27:45 GMT
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