When I was at uni it cost 10p to print a sheet of A4 on campus. Once your credit had run out, and you tried to print, obviously they needed a way to tell you to top up

The way they chose to inform us was that the printer, for every document you sent, would print a sheet of A4 with a massive sad-face smiley and a note that your credit balance was not sufficient.
(TheJacksonSixth, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 2:11, 5 replies)

Reminded me of this
b3ta.com/questions/randomstuff/post1179746
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 25 Feb 2012, 3:26, closed)

Was that Salford? If not, then at least two unis do this

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 18:35, closed)

Uni of York
So must be a widespread way of both wasting paper and teasing poor students
(TheJacksonSixth, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 2:00, closed)

Not totally stupid...
A single sheet of paper costs nearly nothing. It's at least better than the system at my uni where you can send a print job and it will simply disappear if you don't have enough credit. No notification, no refusal, and finding out your print credit is very laborious.
(tomegranate, Sun 26 Feb 2012, 11:00, closed)

I once sent 12 x 1 page docs to the printer and when I crossed the room to pick them up, found 12 x "ooops-face" sheets
They could have just let me print my docs for the same cost to them, so it made no sense to me.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Mon 27 Feb 2012, 15:24, closed)