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h South Caroli"3 Libr" Volume LXIX, No. 100 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Jan. 22, 1979 State legislation map have affect use o Bv Richard G. Elliott Gamecock Staff Writer A bill has been introduced for legislation which could affect a $1,608,000 printing and duplicating and nhotoconvinP husinpss in thp * ~r ^ o ... ? state's colleges and universities, according to a recent report submitted by the Legislative Audit Council, LAC. The LAC recently completed a two-year study on printing and duplicating operations and is on tne verge ol taking control of all state-supported institutions and agencies, according to Richard Kelly, director of USC printing and duplicating services. The bill, introduced in the S.C. House of Representatives on Jan. 16, is to provide that the state Budget and Control Board acquire printing equipment for state agencies ana the agencies use the printing services of the board, ac coraing 10 cnris vianopius, vice president for university relations and public affairs. If the LAC chooses not to take complete control of the printing operation at USC, the university still may have to adhere to some strict regulations, Kelly said. "The University of South Carolina has tried to prove to the I A n :ui.. L_ - unv^ mcjf *_au i capuusiuiy we a separate entity in pursuing their own printing needs," Kelly said. President Holderman appointed a Copying and Duplicating Committee this past September to iccict on/4 w MOOIOI UIIU V/Uiaill UCllCl LUpyillg needs at USC, Kelly said. "The committee is to help us provide more economy and effectiveness in operations," according to Vlahoplus. Copying is currently undergoing a reorganizational period, Vlahoplus said. Copying operates An O AAA onnnnl U?? J v/11 it yuuv,uuu Ullliuai UUll^Cl. Vlahoplus said the committee hopes to save $100,000 a year in operational costs of copying machines. THE GOAL of the committee is to reduce copying and duplicating costs by $100,000 annually, Richard Davis, director of USC printing services, saia. University Printing Services has ' legal control of the 14 coinoperated copiers on campus, Kelly 1 said. ] C. J. Cambre, USC assistant director of libraries for ' operations, has seven of the 14 ; copiers located at Thomas Cooper c Library, Kelly said. UNIVERSITY PRINTING owns { four of the coin-operated copiers, ( and the remainder are rented from local vendors, such as IBM and Xerox, Kelly said. i Average monthly rental on a < copier is $250-$270, with an added i opyingan Wmmmlmm mMmmrnm VHIilil ^ I# simlflB mfHHn $25 cost for renting the coin- Much < operated device, Kelly said. There wouldn't are additional monthly costs for properly, maintenance, servicing and elsewhere supplies, he added. rate, acc< 11 mi i a. .. .. T n Nnn me siuaeru is receiving the \ 3est deal in town," Davis said, "for . ra. nost printing shops locally charge ' rinting I 10 to 20 cents a page. The United an abund states Post Office charges 15 cents ment on ( a page," Davis said. Campus "The v< iopiers charge five cents a page. ^ad free fi Before University Printing to t^e jn(j jegan handling the coin-operated campUS :opiers, students were paying 10 oversen ^ :ents a page, Kelly said. cqtiipmenl "Studen an ut isiuh vendor, the Killoy money wh Company, was servicing the was extre copiers for students in order to justwasn' nake money, Kelly said. competitic id printing z >W?y| I^MMUMHUHHSyfi^H jgw?ila^^M - - --^ - *5Snl^^^^BH^^ropEli*ll|HSii^^^| isi mm?^^^^Hnnm0mm^mmmm0 a mm mm :-v--';/---^ ' ; \ Lfer^igllgtf# ?>; gal i ' - JR "_ i ^J?r:":;:V:r.^_\~:--'i';i; t ' llIB18'"v^Bp^B :'-- ;: r i-~' --: >f the time, the vendor 1 In March, 1978, the stu maintain the copiers concluded when the Killo /tnncinrt ^ 4U^ - ?? J ?? ? * ? VUU01115 uic OIUUUIII iu gu ycmy, U1C VCI1UUI MUrVlL'lll ; and pay an even higher removed their copiers fr )rding to Kelly. USC campus. ember 1977, USC ad- According to Bill tion and University president of the Killoy Co 3egan a study and found "It just got to be a heada( ance of copying equip:ampus, Kelly said. THE COPIERS located College of Business Admini! indors in the past have were the only ones that gei iccess to solicit business any real volume, Killoy sa lividual departments on At present, there are le: and they tended to 100 copiers located on c 'ith highly sophisticated Only 14 are coin-operat t," Kelly said. student use, Kelly said, ts were paying a lot of About 45 copiers are loc en the local rnmnotitinri j ? ? , 11iui vluuiti ut'^ai iiiicuis iur mely competitive; USC and staff use, Kelly said, v t taking advantage of the remaining copiers fo >n," Kelly said. ministrative use. issessed An autotron, a device each department on campus has. is nlnflOuH intn thoco nnniorc i ?-i "?? ? w.v-o^ vupuo "iltll ill use, with a monthly reading taken on the copier and compared to the monthly reading on the autotron, then the department is billed by University Printing for the service, Kelly said. The rate is about thfi same as the five cents charge on coin-operated copiers Kelly said, but the service is provided to faculty and staff to aid their teaching and the monthly bill is included in the department's According to Davis, there is no r: i i 11 r i Iietfi yiuiu niime, uetause an iuiias are refunneled into the University Printing budget in order to continue providing service to the students. UNIVERSITY PRINTING has embarked on a program to provide the best machinery at the lowest cost," Davis said. A "conservative" 8,400 copies a day is the capacity for the copying machines to produce, Kelly said, with about 6,800 copies a day ac Ituallv being produced University Printing has legal control of the coin-operated copiers, and a rental agreement was made between University Printing and several high student traffic areas on campus, Kelly said. Russell House Print Shop, located on the third floor of the Russell House, also provides copying services to students at the same rate as the coin-operated copiers, Susan Henzl, manager, said. The RH Print Shop is producing 4,000copies a day, Henzl said. I Thomas Cooper Library has seven coin-operated copiers with an average production capacity of 11,000 copies a day, Cambre said. With 6.000 copies being produced daily at Thomas Cooper Library, at the rate of five cents a copy, the library is operating on an annual $72,000 budget. "Thomas Cooper Library hasn't operated at a deficit since 1971 when the price per copy dropped frnm 111 tn cpnfc " Porr\K?*? coifl HHHBHHI V'MIHUl v JUKI. dy was THE LIBRARY pays for exy Com- 'Penses incurred on the copiers, as g USC ^id the student when the Killoy ntn thp Company was vendor for USC, Cambre said. Killoy, The key element, on which the mpany, agreement between University :he." Printing and Thomas Cooper Library was reached, is based on at the the principle of having people stration nearby to supervise the copiers, nerated Davis said. i H K#?V nrwrfltnrc llfhn cnnaririco V?. ??VJ MfcWl M, ??liv/ oupvi *Ii3t ss than the copiers in order to service ampus. minor repairs, are university ed for personnel, trained by the vendor on basic repairs, Kelly said. ated in "The vendors don't do general faculty repairs on the copiers, and in the /ith the ast if a copier broke down, the r ad- university was asked to 'pick up the tab'," Kelly said.