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Discuss “Point: Printing quotas really are that bad”

We now have a printing quota: forty dollars? worth of paper per semester. Each time you print a sheet of paper, the printer eats up five cents of this quota. That?s 800 to 1600 pages, depending on whether you print double-sided.

It seems like a lot, but for students majoring in English and other paper-use-heavy majors, it?s really not. Students taking a creative writing workshop are required to print or copy their stories for classmates. Printing four 12-page stories throughout the semester, for a class of 15, will use 720 pages single-sided. That?s almost your entire quota, for one portion of a single class! If you are verbose and write stories that are 17 pages, you?ll use 1020 pages of paper: a huge chunk of even the double-sided quota.

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