Patrick Powell wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 4 14:37:40 2003 > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 22:40:17 +0200 (CEST) > > From: Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: LPRng: Forcing number of copies > > > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Patrick Powell wrote: > > > > PP> You should be wary of the 'factory reset' that can be done by holding > > PP> down one of the panel buttons and then power-cycling the printer. > > PP> Some users are very clever... :-) > > > > In public environments most printer support/supply companies, like Xerox > > Partner, can fit your printers with a metallic shield on top of all > > buttons, including power button to stop students from doing things. > > > > Then you also mount alarm sensor inside the printer that will sound the > > alarm and alart campus security when a prohibited part (parts that you > > open with a screw driver) of the printer is opened. > > > > :-) > > Pinhole drill + paper clip + unplug printer = foiled again. > > If I can think of this one in 1 minute, the students will think of > something even MORE clever. Students are MUCH more clever than I am. > > :-) > > Patrick Powell > >
In a previous life at a university I had to construct boxes to protect the printers from fiddling. The whole printer went in a box and I had it set up so the output dropped out of the printer and fell about 3 feet. to a basket on the floor. You would not believe the contraptions I found inside the box where students attempted to use a periscope and other implements of distruction to get at the buttons... It was a engineering schoool though..... =:o Dave -- --------------------------------- David Taylor Ph 503-613-8132 Fax 503-613-8261 --------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
