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Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper

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From: Jon Allen Boone
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 23:37
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I heard that at Penn State, they changed the laser printers so that
they need to recieve verification before they print - this comes in
the form of a card-reader which reads their venda-card and charges
them $1 a page for printouts from the laser printers.  Sounds workable
to me - though I've not too much information about it.



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From: jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper
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Date: 19 Jun 91 23:37:30 GMT
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