PaperCut Double or Nothing!

This is my example script for the EduGeek PaperCut print script competition.

See http://www.papercut.com/edugeek/competition/

Also check out the Demo Video.

Its objective is simple:

"Make money for the school's IT Department's end-of-year party!"

This objective is achieved by running a 100% illegal and clandestine gambling racket among students. It allows the students to wager their print credit in a simple game of "double or nothing" - they either win a free print job or pay double. While this is happening "the house" (aka the IT Department) siphon off 10% into a secret hidden account.

The script uses all the "tricks" for the gambling industry including:

• Suck students in using a fancy "animated GIF" popup Ad (you find them all over the internet... they must be effective!)

• Tempt students to play again by highlighting the number of times they have won (but never talk about how much they have lost).

• Open the game only to an exclusive group such as "Senior Students".
  This minimised that chance of the Principle/Dean finding out.

• Remind students that it's 100% illegal. Students will do anything if it's illegal!

• Every time someone in the IT Department prints, a secret message will display in the task tray letting us know how much illegal money we've made.

Screen Shots

Tempt the student!

You're a winner!

You lost (but we've got some funds for our party :-)

Installation

To install this script, perform the following:

1. Make sure PaperCut is installed on your print server.

2. Log into PaperCut as an administrator.

3. Select one of your controlled printers from the Printers tab.

4. Click on the Scripting tab and select Enable print script.

5. Cut-n-paste this script into the script editor.

6. Edit the section marked as Configuration as appropriate.

7. Stand back and watch the money flow in :-)

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Disclaimer:

This script is a parody. I suggest only running it on the 1st of April, or if you have a spare few years for the jail time :-)