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Amy McCoy
Microcomputer Lab Manager
mccoy@oregon.uoregon.edu
A dramatic increase in paper conservation is evident since the new pay-for-printing policy was instituted in the Computing Center’s computer labs last fall. The change from free printing to fee-based printing has also reduced student traffic, particularly in the CC-EMU Computer Lab. In the CC-EMU Computer Lab alone, paper use has dropped 72%—from 265,249 sheets per month in 2001-2002, to only 73,300 sheets per month over the past six months:
Thanks to the paper savings, Campus Recycling now visits the CC-EMU Computer Lab only once a week—down from last year’s average of three weekly visits.
As shown in the graph below, we’ve also recorded a slight drop (17%) in the number of people using the CC-EMU Computer Lab so far this year (possibly because people who used the lab solely for printing are no longer coming in):
