This past fall, students at Montgomery College in Montgomery County, Md., began paying for every page they print in the college's libraries, labs and learning centers.
It's 10 cents for black-and-white and 50 cents for color pages. To pay, students can get a card they can load with cash, or swipe their debit or credit cards at kiosks that a vendor for the school set up and maintains.
The move is expected to save the school roughly $300,000 a year -- which it had previously been spending on supplies like toner, paper, service contracts and IT support staff for 30 printers.
The new strategy has also cut down on wasted paper. The college is on target to print less than 2 million pages this school year, down from more than 10 million pages a year earlier.
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