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Printer Quotas

This section applies primarily to printers which have quotas installed (See section Printers in the CS Department, for more info). On any printer with quotas, copies must be either paid for or pre-authorized.

The policy is as follows:

• Faculty and staff do not have to pay. (this includes EE faculty and staff.)
• Student employees doing department work (e.g. sysgroup, tutors) do not have to pay.
• Systems volunteers will receive 100 free pages, unless they fall into the previous category.
• Grad students and others working for faculty should get a note from the professor saying the professor authorizes payment for a given number of copies.
• All others will have to pay.

The procedure for getting/buying copies on a quota'ed printer is as follows:

• Pay for the copies in the CS office. You will be given a note which indicates how many copies you paid for.
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• Get a professor (q.v.) to fill out a note for you.
  then
• Take this note to the tutors' room, they will change the quota file appropriately.
• If you feel you are entitled to unlimited copies, you will have to contact either trent or johnj to give you such access.

There are two programs for manipulating printer quotas: lwquot, and lwaddquot. These programs are rudimentary, and will be replaced with a more elaborate system.

The lwquot command will display a user's current allowance on a printer. Notice that it prints the totals; subtract the two numbers to find out how many more copies the user has. If no username is given, `$USER' is used.

% lwquot glatz
75 pages allowed
15 pages used

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