Color printing at Kiewit
By Ilana Davidi | July 12, 1994Color printing arrived at the Kiewit Computation Center last Tuesday, allowing students to print color graphs, illustrations and other computer images at a small price. Although the center purchased the printer -- a $10,000 Tektronix Phaser 200i -- about a year ago, Kiewit officials just recently finished the printer's testing phase. Larry Levine, the College's director of computing, said Kiewit decided to purchase the printer because "there was not a good, central" means of color printing. He said town businesses charge more than Kiewit charges and their buildings are further away. Users pay $1 a page for color printouts and $2 a page for transparencies. According to Malcolm Brown, the director of academic computing, the cost helps to cover the price of "consumables" -- the special paper and ink used for the printer.