I suddenly see your point in the last stanza. Why can't we share a communal printer? Good question. Especially considering how sparse usage is compared to the

I suddenly see your point in the last stanza. Why can't we share a communal printer? Good question. Especially considering how sparse usage is compared to the 80s/90s. My guess is a "tragedy of the commons" type snafu, with the printer always seeming broken by someone else's job. I actually liked going to the print room - kinda like the water cooler where you could meet people and talk - catch a look at their print job and strike up a conversation "Oh I see you're running regression tests...". IIRC at UCL CS the print room was also where the coffee pot lived.