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Discuss “Counterpoint: Printing quotas really aren't that bad”

Since I?ve come to campus, one of the biggist complaints students have had about CMU Computing is printing.

In the past, two bulk printers, known as Pear and Grapenut, were housed in the basement of Cyert Hall. It was hoped that cluster printers would be able to cover smaller print jobs, leaving Pear and Grapenut to handle bulk print jobs. This ideal was not realized.

According to Computing Services? three years of research, Cyert and Baker printers alone printed more than twice the amount of Pear and Grapenut, with 50,000 and 20,000 pages, respectively. In response, a new printing system was set up to maximize print distribution and better control the number of wasted pages students print.

Computing Services was forced to make some well-researched...

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