flordecatalunia ([info]flordecatalunia) wrote in [info]oberlin,
@ 2006-03-13 21:27:00
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Print Quota
Does anyone know who handles the print quota? I'm wondering if there's anyone to whom I can appeal regarding an increase in print quota. If not, do I use Obie dollars to refill it? (Gosh, Oberlin sucks the $$$ out of you!)


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[info]incendiaryfs
2006-03-14 02:49 am UTC (link)
Find a connie and use thiers.

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[info]illudwinnepooh4
2006-03-14 02:56 am UTC (link)
Not true of all connies. But the stereotype seems to work for hard science majors, too. Pretty much non-humanities types. I am college music and I've run out of my print quota every semester since they instituted it. Meh. I hate the print quota.

More helpfully, you can add Obie Dollars to your card at Mudd - there's a big black machine near the copy machines, which are on your right as you walk in on the main floor.

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[info]gryphia
2006-03-14 04:31 am UTC (link)
There's also a machine in the science library copy room that you can use to add obie dollars to your card, if you happen to be there more often then mudd.

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[info]djhimself012284
2006-03-15 05:31 pm UTC (link)
print in King 135. It usually lets you print out ish for free.

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-14 03:07 am UTC (link)
CIT handles the print quota. A little history: there used to be no quota, and people printed out tons of stuff that they didn't need -- there was a lot of waste. So, in order to conserve paper (and money), they instituted a print quota. It was raised in the 2004-2005 year from $11.50 per semester to $21 per semester, so it's probably unlikely they'll be increasing it anytime soon.

I second the science majors not using their quota.

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A little more history...
[info]jashenhurst
2006-03-14 06:40 pm UTC (link)
There has always been a quota except one semester, the fall of 2003. That was the first semester with the Pharos print system which we have now, with the print job release stations. People didn't really know how to use them, and soon there was a few forests' worth of paper covering every surface in Mudd 052. Thankfully, they have since restored the print quota.

Prior to the current system (before fall 2003) the print quota was associated with your Netware login (the thing you use to log on to Windows in the labs today). You got 300 pages (a long time before that it was 500), and whenever you printed something, those pages got deducted from your quota. The problem with this system was that a) it didn't support double-sided printing well and b) Netware on Mac OS X sucks real bad, and c) as soon as you issued the print job to a printer, it started printing. This was bad when you accidentally sent the print job to, say, the printer in Lord-Saunders instead of the one outside Mudd 212. Someone could also accidentally scoop up your job before you got to the printer. The college found that most of the time people just issued print jobs and forgot about them, leaving the printouts that are now mysteriously highly precious to us to be recycled without ever being used. Having an extra step between "issue print command" and "pick up printout from printer" was supposed to prevent people who print first and decide if they need it later from wasting money.

The college means well with the print quota system. But like many policies meant to do good, implementing them well is a huge hassle.

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Re: A little more history... V2
[info]stimpythecat
2006-03-16 04:13 am UTC (link)
hi:
jashenhurst is mostly correct. In the dark old days, (pre '95 or so) printing cost money. It all printed out in the machine room, and one would have to go to what is now the computer store to pick up your printout, after paying for it. It was decided this was not going to work, so they put networked printers in the labs. However, at the time there was no way to charge, so we gave free printing.
Fast forward a few years (Not sure how long, ask me if your really interested.) and the printing had, predictably, gone crazy overboard. Whole reams of printouts not getting picked up. We then instituted the iprint system. iprint was a Netware thing apparently written by some dude in his basement. It seemed like a good system,but had some problems. Iprint was only designed to limit printing. It didn't/couldn't do money transactions. Also I believe it was not compatible with newer netware systems.
We put in Pharos, and thanks to the sharp networking dude, it works very well as far as I'm concerned. As far as I know, I still have privs on it.
...for what its worth.. *mutters something about wooden nickles in his Grandpa Simpson voice*
-Shon

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[info]flordecatalunia
2006-03-14 03:29 am UTC (link)
Is it true that double-majors get more quota, or is that a myth?

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-14 04:10 am UTC (link)
i wish! it's a myth. or if it's not a myth they just don't like me.

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[info]violabelle
2006-03-14 02:03 pm UTC (link)
A complete myth.

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[info]ahhrrr
2006-03-14 03:29 am UTC (link)
Yeah, once your print quota is used up, it automagically switches over to using your Obie Dollars. At least, I think that's what it's supposed to do.

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[info]bigtyper
2006-03-14 03:31 am UTC (link)
dude, just don't read/print everything you're supposed to.

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-14 03:46 am UTC (link)
And dude, spend all that time you've earned by not doing your work trolling the Oberlin LJ community by responding to every thread with a suggestion of going to the long-dead anonymous thread.

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[info]drabheathen
2006-03-14 06:55 am UTC (link)
Even better, be snarky to someone you don't even know!

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[info]bigtyper
2006-03-14 03:49 pm UTC (link)
ah, they probably know enough. I enjoy snarkiness, in its place. However, I would point out that I haven't plugged it here...wait, was that me plugging it all this time?

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[info]zoe_trope
2006-03-14 03:43 am UTC (link)

  • Read things online and take notes.
  • Print double-sided.
  • Ask your professors if you can submit papers via e-mail or Blackboard.

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[info]breatheandsmile
2006-03-14 05:03 am UTC (link)
On a completely unrelated, somewhat inappropriate note: your icon is amazing.

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[info]faeriez
2006-03-14 07:44 am UTC (link)
ditto.

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Also...
[info]jashenhurst
2006-03-14 06:43 pm UTC (link)
It is possible to print more than one page on a page. Depending on the quality of the ERes, I print up to four pages per page.

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-14 05:29 am UTC (link)
What are all you people printing?

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[info]procris
2006-03-14 01:23 pm UTC (link)
I knew I'd be out of my print quota this semester. I'm just hoping it lasts till midterms. But then, I'm doing Honors in History , and most of my primary sources are on webdatabases. They need to be printed out so I can annotate them and not have to keep going through the login-rigamoral just to check a reference. ... oh, and then there's all my reading for one of my classes. I can't read that much on a computer screen so it gets printed too.

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(Anonymous)
2006-03-14 04:15 pm UTC (link)
I suppose I just have printer-friendly classes.

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[info]flordecatalunia
2006-03-14 07:27 pm UTC (link)
I'm a double major in Politics and English with a creative writing concentration. I need to print out other people's stories for writing workshops, and LOADS of politics articles. My print quota will also be gone by midterms. I don't print random things, only articles I need for classes/writing papers/etc., and it would be nice if Oberlin supported us that way. That's all.

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[info]user_undefined
2006-03-18 12:35 am UTC (link)
I'm in a lit class where the professor requires that we print out every reading and bring it with us to class for reference.

Naturally, I do not. Waste of paper. :)

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[info]sweet_hermia
2006-03-14 01:20 pm UTC (link)
Once your print quota is used up, it does automatically switch over to your Obie dollars. You can add more at the Decafe or in Mudd on the black box machine next to the copy card machine on the main level. There is no (legal) way to get more print quota.

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