It’s a Digital Age, but Copy Machines Flourish

Sonoma County’s (CA) largest school district spends more than $524,000 for photocopying—both with machines on campuses and jobs done at the central printing facility on Ridgway Avenue. Demand is up. Last year, the district produced more than 40 million copies. In 2007-08, it was 38.6 million.

That's nearly 2,600 copies for every student in the district. Officials have encouraged campuses to order copy services through central printing rather than using on-site copiers, which can cost more than twice as much to run. It costs 1.79 cents to make a photo copy on school machines but less than half that