Printing on Public Workstations

[Ellen Carrico]

On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Debora A. Orf wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My question is about printouts from public workstations.
> 
> 1) Do you charge for these prints, if so how do you handle collection of fees?

At the present time we don't charge for any printing from any 
workstations regardless of the type of printer.
> 
> 2) Do you allow printing from every public workstation, or just from a few?
> 
We allow printing from a large number of workstations.  We still have 
lots of dumb terminals, and many of these share dot matrix printers via
a/b switches.  We also have more specialized stations (CD ROM access or 
word processing for example) that have dedicated printers of various 
types ranging from dot matrix to lasers.

> 3) Does anyone know of a resource for cost analysis of public workstation
> printing?
> 
No, but I'd like to hear about it if you do.

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