Why does Net-Print waste an entire sheet of paper for every print job?
That sheet of paper is Net-Print’s “header page” option for identifying your printout. It’s printed free of charge. To save paper, you can choose the “watermark” option instead, which prints the identifying information at the top of the first page of your printout. It looks like the top of a fax page. Example of Net-Print’s watermark: To use the watermark option, go to the Accounts page, and in the Header Page box, click the button next to “no header page, watermark with NetID on first page of your printout.” You have to choose either the watermark or header page option because Net-Print needs some way to separate one print job from another, so that each job can be properly filed if its owner is not there to pick it up as soon as it’s printed. It also keeps people from getting their printouts mixed up with someone else’s. In the past, the only way Net-Print could do this was to print a free, separate divider sheet.
