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pirmann@aramis.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) presents in article <Jun.19.14.27.43.1991.26118@aramis.rutgers.edu>
>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).

I work at the Engineering Computing Center here at UH and in regards to
laser printers, the school in general has an effective way to limit
their use.  All the public access laser printers have a "Copicard"
reader attached to them.  All of the laserprinters are served by a print
spooler (usually on the server itself).  To printout on the laserwriter,
the user must have a "Copicard" and printouts cost $.10 a page.  The
users can print out as much as they are willing to pay for.  Any user
can print a job that is sent to the spooler, but the job will just sit
in the spooler until the user uses a copicard.  

>
>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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