| The
Webb Printing Policy |
| Paper is expensive, and it is somewhat impractical to
recycle. (Neither of these statements is actually true--paper is
reasonably cheap and it’s quite inexpensive to recycle, but because it
is so relatively cheap, it’s hard to make money out of recycling paper.)
The problem is that we use a lot of paper, and most of it ends up in
landfills—it's these factors which make paper cost more than we can
afford. |
| It’s easy to say that we want to save paper because we
want to “save trees,” but that’s not true, either. They grow trees
in east Texas to make paper just as they grow wheat in Kansas to make
bread, and no one advocates saving wheat. They don’t cut down California
redwoods to make paper. |
| We have a laser printer in the classroom and it’s
attached by the network to all the computers in the classroom. We also
have an inkjet color printer in the classroom with which you can print
indirectly. (You save the file you wish to print and the teacher transfers
it to disk and moves it to the Macintosh on the teacher’s desk, which is
attached to the printer.) In either case, our printing policy is very
simple— |
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If
you need to print it, then print it.
If you don’t need to print it, then don’t print it! |
| If you need to copy a piece of material from a website,
highlight the material you need and copy it to a Word file. Be sure to
copy the address, also. Save the Word file and print it instead of the
whole web page with all its advertisements and all the other junk. |
| If you print something, be sure that your name is at the top
of your page. If you need to print something off the web, copy that which
you need to print, transfer it to a Word file, and print the Word file.
That way, you don’t waste paper and toner on the ads and the other junk. |
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