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Discuss “New printing system may include quotas”

Last year, one cluster printer user printed 15,960 pages in two months, according to data collected by Carnegie Mellon Computing Services as part of a rigorous analysis of the university?s printing system. ?That?s about three 50-pound cases of paper,? said Mike Kelleher, Clusters Field Consultant.

Cluster Services is aiming to solve such problems and is nearing the end of a two-year project of renovating the printing regime at CMU. The result will be a new, kiosk-based printing system that will require users to be present at the kiosk to ?release? their jobs before they are actually printed.

The goal of the project is to reduce the overall cost of printing, alleviate long-standing complaints from printer users, and rein in the abuse of cluster...

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