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Article #726Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper
From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 19:45
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 19:45
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In article <Jun.19.14.27.43.1991.26118@aramis.rutgers.edu> pirmann@aramis.rutgers.edu (David Pirmann) writes:
>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).
One problem with these solutions are that in the first, students can
bring their own paper, and colored toner, if I am not mistaken, costs
more than black toner.
One interesting solution might be to intentionally degrade the output by
smudging some toner on the corona wire, leaving a black streak down one side.
--
Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!russotto From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Cutting excessive student use of printer paper Message-ID: <1991Jun20.194517.29237@eng.umd.edu> Date: 20 Jun 91 19:45:17 GMT References: <KIRAVUO.91Jun13212300@vipunen.hut.fi> <andrewb.677301328@suite.sw.oz.au> <Jun.19.14.27.43.1991.26118@aramis.rutgers.edu> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 19