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I have battled this problem for a while. I moved the printer behind the circulation desk, so students have to come to the desk to pick up their printouts. While this has not totally fixed the problem, it has helped considerably and it does allow me to more easily isolate the culprits. Marsha Redd Librarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI marsharedd@hotmail.com Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student. Everyone is a teacher. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Sue Fox <sfox.Mcevoy@BIBB.K12.GA.US> Reply-To: Sue Fox <sfox.Mcevoy@BIBB.K12.GA.US> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: [LM_NET] TECH: Printing Policies Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 08:37:00 -0500 I am having major problems!! First of all, I've about decided I'm running a computer lab, not a media center. The cartridges & paper do not come out of my budget, and we are a Title I school (very low socioeconomic) so I have not been charging for printing. However, I am going through about a case of paper a WEEK and a toner cartridge every 6 WEEKS. In spite of trying to police the printing (I try to keep an eye out for lyric printing, cheat codes, etc.), it is out of hand, though I admit that while I was doing the technology inventory my supervision level was way down. I bet I threw away a reem of paper yesterday that was "junk". I used to keep it as scratch paper, but there is too much of it. I am ready to disable the printers altogether and only allow printing of finished work. Maybe have students copy their work (internet articles & info) to disks and have them do all their work from the computer. In fact, out of frustration I just told about 6 kids I am not allowing any Internet printing, only finished work printing, and they all left! I brought this issue to my media/technology committee last fall, but no one had any ideas, and I was too new to this school to have a feel for where to go with this. Any suggestions are appreciated. Sue Fox Media Specialist McEvoy Middle School Macon, GA sfox.mcevoy@bibb.k12.ga.us -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------