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The College of New Jersey maintains 30 state-of-the-art computer labs throughout the campus. The demand for lab printing continues to rise each year. The increase is attributed to new requirements from academic instruction and improvements to our computer lab environment such as:

       · Hours of availability
       · Number of workstations
       · Internet resources
       · Courseware

The need to reduce printing is not only a monetary issue but an environmental issue as well. Lab printing consumed over 23 tons of paper last year. While the majority of printing is legitimate, there is an unnecessary expense associated with printing supplies and precious environmental resources.

Did You Know?

• Three quarts of oil are burned to make one new cartridge
• 375,000,000 cartridges are thrown away every year
• Ink cartridges cost more to destroy than to manufacture
• It takes over 1000 years for each cartridge to decompose

The program will allocate each student 600 pages per semester. Starting in the Fall Semester of 2008, users that exceed their allocation will pay an overage charge of $.05 for each additional page printed. The overage fee will be added to their student bill at the end of each semester.

Examples of the allocation and overage charges:

Allocated	Overage	Total	Charge
600	0	600	$0.00
600	100	700	$5.00
600	200	800	$10.00
600	300	900	$15.00
600	400	1000	$20.00

 

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The allocation is based on statistical data of lab users that printed between August 2003 and May 2005. It is important to point out that since Academic year 2005, on average, 92% of the total number of lab users print 600 pages or less.