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[Non Sequitur]

How is your situation re photocopying?

[Ariadne]

Free and unlimited, up to me to do.

My first uni in China was very miserly and insisted on using both sides of the paper. I once saw a copy of my passport on the back of a work sheet. I wasn't happy.

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[tributary]

[the_otter]

I have mine done at the local print shop. The secretaries are never in their office before the first class, and I'm not organised enough to have handouts prepared sufficiently in advance. In addition, their printer is rather slow. If I was staying longer in China, I'd definitely get a printer. It would save a lot of headaches.

[Ariadne]

Obviously I did not make myself clear. Of course I support using both sides of the paper, to save trees, energy, water, the whole bit. I do not support indiscriminate reuse of paper that has personal information on it. Surely you can understand that I would be irritated to find a copy of my passport on the back of a student's worksheet in the student's possession?

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[chinanoodles]

I make my own copies at the school I work for. Unlimited and free and can splurge by using one side of the paper for anything I feel requires such horrific waste. I also do all my printing for my side jobs there and occasionally give a ream or 5 of scrap paper to a Chinese friend who recycles it for beer money.

[siberiantiger]

Photocopies are free and unlimited but up to me to do. The machine always seems to break down after 75 copies or so and then it's a struggle to get it to cough up anything. I print a lot of handouts at my own expense only because I can't always get to the photocopy room when it's open. We can also submit our documents to have them copied for free but I'm just not organized enough to get them in weeks in advance.

[Guerciotti]

My limit is 200 pages ... per semester. For all my classes. Besides, noone in admin, from the bottom to the dean, arrives at work before 10am, so the office is not useful. When they're open, there's a crowd of Chinese English teachers waiting for the one copier/printer. Apparently they have no limit.

This just occured to me, my limit equals about one page per student per semester.

Even if I were organized, I blew my limit in the first week and then some.

[mat chen]

Getting better here. I don't do to much copying anymore but had to at the beginning because there was this strong anti foreigner feeling with the Chinese teaching staff. They are supplied with materials from Beijing and don't need to copy anything. Copying the wrong materials can get you into trouble if per chance one of your students must report everything you do in the classroom to your supervisor. I am here to teach speaking and listening so there is little need for me to make copies. I don't use a Lee Yang Crazy English approach in my teaching so there is no need for copies.
Use the blackboard and clean it after you finish and you will be environmentally friendly and stay out of being politically incorrect.

[drrjon]

never a problem why should there be?......except the natural hate between copy machines and me...they always seem to stop working when I want to use them. would love to take my shotgun to one...oh in china ...can not use a shot gun here...

[MisterButtkins]

Copying is free and I do my own. I don't have class Monday morning, so I usually go in Monday morning and do all the copying for the week. It's very convenient. The copy machine we have seems pretty good. I've only seen it have a problem one time and then the guy in the office next door fixed it right away.

[Non Sequitur]

'never a problem why should there be?'

Seven out of thirteen responses report less than optimum copying situations.

[Non Sequitur]

Tributary and Otter - assume you mean you use your computer printer and buy the cartridges?

[Old Surrender]

I have to give my copies a week in advance to get them done in time and for free.