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My friends ALWAYS use my printer to print?

so eversince they found out that i had a color printer, many friends of mine asked me to print ALOT of stuffs for them, since they dunt have color printers. In the beginning i helped them print alot for free. (their hw, assignments etc) but ink is realy expensive so i can only print less myself to save more ink for them. But now im really frustrated, why cant they get color printers themselves? instead of bothering me all day long, and waste my ink so much? what can i do? thanks! i dun wanna hurt their feelings. i dont want them to use my printer anymore!! my mom and dad work hard to earn money and buy those ink! and i provide paper for their printing, too =/

Public Comments

1. Tell them no.
2. tell them that you can't afford to give it out anymore. and if they're really your friends, they'd respect that
3. Tell them yur sorry but the ink is to much money either yu give me the money or yu dont use my printer at all. LIKE REALLY JUSS TELL THEM NO. or yu can lie and say yur mommy and dadyy said tht yur frandsc cnt use yur printer anymore cos the ink is expensive. the more yu tel them yes the more they come back to you askin and wastin yur pper and ink!
4. tell them to fuck off and say that you ran out of ink or something and when they question you just say i bought ink . when they tell you to print after that, make excuses that you're busy or doing something better than printing things for them .
5. just say no or make them pay lol They wont hate you for that
6. Tell them it's 10 cent a page because you don't have the money to keep on buying ink. It will get easier to do after the first time you say it.
7. Combine guilt tripping with public exposure of their weak freeloading... Keep a chart near the printer and update it when a) They print something or b) When they contribute paper, ink, or at least some good times during the printing. Get creative, maybe rank them on how much they print vs. how much they contribute. Also, if you keep track, maybe establish a cutoff point where if someone doesn't provide something, you're going to put a password on the thing...