College Students... question

[Mayfriday0529]

Do you get free printing at your school library?
The new policy this year is, each student gets $40 credit which equals 400 pages per semester. After that its 10 cents a page.

I understand that they are probably trying to conserve money, but everytime you print something you have to type your username and account... and everytime you print something you get a status report printout on how many pages you printed and how many you have left. Now that's wasting paper.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Even in highschool I've got a 50 print limit. Yes, print, not page. We have to pay/provide our own paper, so essentially we're overpaying for the ink...

 

[JujuFish]

I get free printing from my dorm. The library I work at also allows free printing, but charges $0.10/page to make copies.

 

[Xcobra]

they charge 10 cents a page here at my school

 

[Platypus]

They tried to do that here this semester but there was such a backlash they 'put it off' till next semester.. I am willing to bet it wont happen next semester either.

I don't give a sh!t either way, I'm out of here in May and I have my own laser printer.

 

[Schadenfreude]

We had to pay for everything we print/copy, no excptions.

 

[akubi]

free

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
I get free printing from my dorm. The library I work at also allows free printing, but charges $0.10/page to make copies.

Yes copies are not free, unless you have like permission from a dean office for some "special" research..

 

[Anubis]

had free printing in HS and college

i printed out many a 300+page dealies on the printers in the physics labs, to which i conviently had keys to

 

[Gibson486]

My school is catching on.....my freshman year, we used to just print stuff in teh common areas of teh libary and avoid the long lines at the computer lab. Now you need to pay for those copies....although...I have found that if you find the correct print driver, you can just hook your computer to the back of teh printer via USB port and not wait in line anymore I think they are catching on to that too......looks like i have to wait in the long lines in the computer lab.

 

[LtPage1]

it's like 10cents a page here, i think.

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: Gibson486
My school is catching on.....my freshman year, we used to just print stuff in teh common areas of teh libary and avoid the long lines at the computer lab. Now you need to pay for those copies....although...I have found that if you find the correct print driver, you can just hook your computer to the back of teh printer via USB port and not wait in line anymore I think they are catching on to that too......looks like i have to wait in the long lines in the computer lab.

How many times can you write "teh" in such a small paragraph? It's not cool anymore. It never was; for that matter.

 

[hjo3]

At my current school we get free black and white printing; color costs. At the community college I went to before this, nothing was free -- copies/printouts were 10c/page.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: Gibson486
My school is catching on.....my freshman year, we used to just print stuff in teh common areas of teh libary and avoid the long lines at the computer lab. Now you need to pay for those copies....although...I have found that if you find the correct print driver, you can just hook your computer to the back of teh printer via USB port and not wait in line anymore I think they are catching on to that too......looks like i have to wait in the long lines in the computer lab.

How many times can you write "teh" in such a small paragraph? It's not cool anymore. It never was; for that matter.

it was never cool, i type it that way compleantly accedently almost every time, i type really fast and always get ahead of myself with the

 

[Whisper]

Printing in the graduate computer lab that I use in the psych building is free, but printing from the library is not. Copies are never free, as all copies require you to have an individual copy code.

 

[digitalsm]

About a year ago my college instituted a similar policy. Except we get $14 credit and its 7 cents a page. Its not just the library it any printing done on campus.

 

[Kobota]

i have 1000 pages per semester figured into the cost of tuition.

 

[Acanthus]

Is it just me or is something that trivial a damn joke....

$40000+ for your education and they cant provide paper....

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: digitalsm
About a year ago my college instituted a similar policy. Except we get $14 credit and its 7 cents a page. Its not just the library it any printing done on campus.

I'm sure its our entire campus also. They got this program that is linked that ask you for your username and password.

 

[tokamak]

Here its 10 cents a page in the libraries for printouts and copies. Many individual departments give their students a certain number of free pages in their departmental labs, though. My g/f is an engineer and gets 1000, I think, in the engineering lab. I am a physics major, and we get none. You are also allowed 500 mb of public computer bandwidth per week, go over and you have to buy more.

The people that run the University of Texas firmly believe that it is a for-profit corporation. My tuition has just about doubled in the 4 years that I've been here.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Is it just me or is something that trivial a damn joke....

$40000+ for your education and they cant provide paper....

Yeah but do you think its possible to print 400 pages in once semester if its only for school work and not random BS.

 

[S Freud]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
Is it just me or is something that trivial a damn joke....

$40000+ for your education and they cant provide paper....

agreed

 

[slightlyhuman]

Originally posted by: Xcobra
they charge 10 cents a page here at my school

 

[George P Burdell]

general college account has limits, but i don't care because my department gives me free printing. and we also have free bulk printing (so we can print 1000 page documents without spending a cent. plus, they will print on pre-punched paper, staple, bind or print it out in any way you want).

 

[MrBond]

We get 500 pages per semester that we're registered for printing. Black and white counts as one page, color counts as four (I think) - and there's only one color printer in all of Engineering.

I think my main campus account has a print quota too but I've never used it. The main-campus labs are horrible.

Copiers aren't free at all. In fact, they just installed new copiers so even administrative offices have to input a special code to use their copier.