Provide network production access to printing and plotting services. A variety of output devices are needed for quality design work. Because of media costs, it will probably be necessary to charge for these prints. A network print queue and charging mechanism is used by most schools, and they work well. Until such facilities are readily available, studio computer work will be very limited.
Current labs are open to the public, and without logon protection can be used by anyone.
There are students outside the school that use the equipment. A system of student ID's is expected to be operational by Fall Quarter 1996. In summary, Architecture needs to make available to students both training on the use of computer facilities and also ready access for production work. At some point in the future, history courses will be taught with the aid of an image database developed for this purpose, with images from significant buildings. Over time, the initial experiments in this area need to be assessed and incremental actions taken that take advantage of what is practical today, without making unproductive expenditure and commitments.