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Discuss “Printing quota the result of a student and faculty survey last semester”

?Make it not suck.?

That was one student?s request for changes to the CMU printing system when asked for an opinion by a small user outreach group of CMU Computing Services members last semester. The group, charged with the task of renovating the printing system, released this student?s statement, among the rest of its more formal data, on January 30, 2004, to the CMU community. Their results showed that the great majority of students wanted a change. Among their needs were ?stricter and more aggressive enforcement of page limits? and shorter queues for printing jobs.

CMU Computing Services used this information to implement this semester?s new $40 per student per semester printing quota.

The group analyzed four major categories: quality,...

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