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The most ANNOYING thing about printing notes in NUS
By arzhou | September 5, 2007
This rant is fresh and hot just like my latest set of notes right off the printer. I finally came to a conclusion, it is not the idiots who do not know how to print, ppl who print 500 pages worth of notes in 1 go (but I am guilty of that too especially during the exam period).
The most annoying thing is…. PDF files! Yup adobe did the world a favour when they created pdf for document exchange purpose. I will admit that it is useful, but printing PDF files in NUS is really an irritating and more often then not an expensive experience.
- PDF files especially when it is powerpoint presentations are general VERY big in file size and can clog up the NUS print servers. Especially the one in Engineering E2. I waited over 15 mins for my notes to print before… much to the annoyance of the 5 people behind me in the queue.
- Often students will print multiple slides or pages onto 1 piece of paper to save on cost and also to be environmentally friendly. Also it makes no sense to walk around with a set of notes 100 pieces of paper thick when i can squeeze 4 slides into 1 page and have 25 pieces or 13 (if double sided). If the file being printed is a PDF file… our desire to save the environment is rewarded by our printing cost rising…. Why? Simple because the print server calculates cost of pdf files per page without factoring in how many we are squeezing in per piece of paper. Eg: printing a 100 page set of notes at 4 slides per page will yield me 25 pages right? Instead of charging me for printing 25 pages… I get charged for 100 pages. That is like 4 times the cost of printing if I were to print from the direct PPT source! (oh btw not all lecturers release ppt versions)
Well good thing is that some lecturers seem to know this problem and actually release their powerpoint source to help alleviate the cost of printing.
Topics: Rants | 11 Comments »
September 5th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Some of my lecture notes from UniSIM are also in PDF form. When we request for the ppt form, the tutor’s remark what that it is to prevent us from amending the notes.
For goodness sake, who the F want to amend your notes. Argh
September 5th, 2007 at 10:28 am
You sure your lecturer actually gave that pathetic a response?!
September 5th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
what’s wrong with amending the notes? sheesh… and i didn’t know we get charged for every page! omg, i just printed like 40+ pages… shld start printing at home.
September 5th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Tstar: can you imagine the surprise when i squeezed 16 slides to 1 page… and i got charged per slide
September 5th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
To think I came by because I was so shocked that you are printing NOTES in NUS.
As in… currency.
As in… Sing Dollar NOTES.
lol. You fooled me
September 5th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Misleading title! Misleading title! lol
September 5th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
i thought notes = money.
linkbaiting ah!
i want to compren!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
OMG…. I would have thought Notes + NUS = lecture notes >.<
September 6th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Huh? You actually mean people thought you were printing currency in NUS???!!! I didn’t make that mistake. Nowadays most colour printers have memory that records what you’ve photocopied on that particular copier. The copier can also fudge the fine details of the copied currency note (don’t ask me how).
Arzhou, maybe you should edit the notes in Adobe Acrobat Professional and convert it to Microsoft Document before you print it . Saves you the 4X printing cost and long waiting time. Problem is getting the Adobe Acrobat Professional key… (Not really a BIG problem isit?)
September 6th, 2007 at 6:20 am
how can that be! shrinking the notes and still charge you by the number of original pages?!?!
September 6th, 2007 at 7:41 am
CC: For PDF yes, it calculates by original pages. Serious. Latest print job I did was 97 pages (original) squeezed to 2 per page. When i went to release the job, it was $4+. At 5 cents per page that would mean at least 80 pages right?