They can be seen in the garbage cans of most computer labs, and some of it simply sits idle at the printer, awaiting the same fate - wasted paper. Many students print documents they did not mean to print or decided later they did not need. Computing Services officials said the Arkansas Union computer lab printer produces about 3,270 pages a day. The Administrative Services computer lab printers prints about 1,100 pages a day. A large portion of these pages becomes garbage.
Some systems already are in place to curb the increase of paper waste.
Mullins Library uses a system called Printhack, which sends a print job to a dummy printer, where it waits. A student must verify a print job on a second computer that sits next to the actual printer. But, Printhack is not in all of the computer labs. Printhack cannot control the amount of needless information printed by students who only need a section of the printed document. The University Museum Exhibit Area hosted a storytelling event Tuesday morning with a performance of the Bass Reeves story in celebration of Black History Month.