‘Free’ Printing? Not at These Schools

Fogelberg: Our initial three goals for the program were to reduce waste, create equity for printing costs (only those who used printing would pay for it) and contain costs. We feel we met those initial objectives well.

We estimated that, prior to the Campus Printing Initiative, there were 15 million prints on campus in the partners’ labs. We are looking at around 4.5 to 5 million prints this year, and about 65 percent of those will be double sided. The bulk of the printing is paid for by the lab users, so we have assigned the burden of the cost to the users. IPG