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ajq@j.cc.purdue.edu(John O'Malley) writes in comp.sys.mac

>We're in the early planning stages of setting up an open-access Macintosh
>lab for the Purdue campus.  We'll have lotsa networked Macs and probably a
>couple of LaserWriters.  We might charge for laser printouts.
>
>We'd like to figure out a way that we could automate the process of charging
>for the laser output.  One way would be to hook up a card reading device,
>similar to the copy-card readers (those credit-card like cards) that are
>often attached to photocopiers in campus libraries.  Has anyone had experience
>with this kind of thing?  Is it possible?  If such a device exists, I
>imagine that it'd have to be installed on a non-shared LaserWriter.

	Here at the University of Illinois, that is exactly what we do.  We have
attached a card reader to each of the public access LaserWriters which is then
attached to its own Macintosh (trying to handle the card reader through a 
shared (networked) system DOES NOT WORK TOO WELL (causes a LOT of hassles)).
	We have found student fairly receptive to this method, the only problem that
we have encountered is that we only have a limited number of LW's and lots of
students.....


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