We only get $10 a semester. I remember a few years back where everyone printed like crazy, paper was everywhere.
Originally posted by: 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.
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....
Originally posted by: 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
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.
Not FTW...ink is damn expensive. Using school's toner FTW is more like it.Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
nope.. own printer FTW
Originally posted by: archcommus
Not FTW...ink is damn expensive. Using school's toner FTW is more like it.Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
nope.. own printer FTW
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....
Originally posted by: Injury
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....
It isn't that they want to make profit on paper or don't want to foot the bill, the idea is that it is a deterrent from people printing out stupid bullcrap left and right and hogging up university resources while people are waiting for legitimate work.
My school just recently instituted a 10 cents per page policy in all open labs. There is swipe card access to labs for the various programs that give people who need the usage of printers free access in the specific labs. For instance, since I'm a Computer Graphics major, I can use my swipe card to get into the graphics labs where there are color laser printers. When I login to the computer and print things, it tracks how much I'm printing. There is no limit, but if you are caught making excessive prints without a professor's blessing, your access to the lab is revoked and your account is locked. Studnets in programs that don't rely on computer usage can only access the open labs.
They put this entire policy in place after a guy had printed out entire mySpace pages and used up all 3 paper trays on 2 different printers in the labs. How the hell he did that, I don't know. Why... i really don't want to know. I guess he had so many mySpace friends that he couldn't sit there and read the comments... wanted to take them with him or something. Either way, I don't care because with program-specific lab access, I don't need to use the open labs.
The other major problem is that University budgets are funky. We can't use technology fee money here to pay for things like paper...they can only be used for equipment or people... That means, departmental budgets cover paper....but the department that covers most computer labs is the IT budget. Yet, IT isn't who's assigning the work for classes, etc...it's the colleges. (english, math, etc) So there's a big gap in the budgeting and we have to foot the bill. Thus, we charge to cover ourselves. The worst scenario is when Xerox or a similar company comes in and charges x dollars per month for 3000 copies on a printer.... Since it's leased equipment, if the print jobs go over that, they are billed at a higher rate like $.05 per sheet or $.13 per sheet.... that adds up fast. I know a lab that got hit with 3 months of $4000 in extra printing costs per month. How do you justify $12k out of your budget for just paper/toner because of a leasing agreement issue. It sucks.Originally posted by: Injury
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....
It isn't that they want to make profit on paper or don't want to foot the bill, the idea is that it is a deterrent from people printing out stupid bullcrap left and right and hogging up university resources while people are waiting for legitimate work.
My school just recently instituted a 10 cents per page policy in all open labs. There is swipe card access to labs for the various programs that give people who need the usage of printers free access in the specific labs. For instance, since I'm a Computer Graphics major, I can use my swipe card to get into the graphics labs where there are color laser printers. When I login to the computer and print things, it tracks how much I'm printing. There is no limit, but if you are caught making excessive prints without a professor's blessing, your access to the lab is revoked and your account is locked. Studnets in programs that don't rely on computer usage can only access the open labs.
They put this entire policy in place after a guy had printed out entire mySpace pages and used up all 3 paper trays on 2 different printers in the labs. How the hell he did that, I don't know. Why... i really don't want to know. I guess he had so many mySpace friends that he couldn't sit there and read the comments... wanted to take them with him or something. Either way, I don't care because with program-specific lab access, I don't need to use the open labs.