Printing

Printing Procedures for Students

• 50 pages per month are free (“monthly quota”). Monthly quota balances cannot be carried forward from month to month.
• The fee is 5¢ per page after the monthly quota of 50 free pages is used.
• Print charges are billed electronically by the Bursar, and appear on monthly student bills. Charges appear as a single line item, labeled “Computer Lab Printing Fee.”
• To view number of pages printed, when, and where, go to: http://prtchrgs.admsrv.ohio.edu/ within 24 hours of any print job.
• It should be noted that procedurally, a charge is not incurred by students until their print job has successfully printed at the printer. Although a job may have been authenticated by the user, it is only logged as a valid charge when the printer completes the printout.

Printing from Personal Laptops: (New in January 2007)

Students using personal laptop computers (Windows XP or Windows 2000 only) with wireless or ethernet connections can login and print by following the procedure outlined below:

1. Click on this link and run the application Map Printers.
2. Once the application is running
   • Click on the “Map printer…” button to map the printer on the selected floor, or
   • Click on “Release my print jobs” button to release your print job, which will open a web page and allow you to select and authenticate your print job. Note: If you don’t see your print jobs, click the “refresh” button.
   • Click on “View my print history” button to check your print history.
3. Only one printer at a time will map including the vended color printer. The application removes currently mapped printers when mapping a new one.

For Vista users: The first time you run the application, you may need to update the printer driver. To update the driver, map one of the printers, go to Control panel->Printers, right-click on the mapped printer, and select Update Driver.

Printing Procedures for Faculty, Staff, Visiting Scholars

• Print in Alden Library using a Vendacard. The Vendacard cost is 75¢; the card can be revalued.
• Printing cost is 7¢ per page. Printing in Alden Library using a Vendacard is the only alternative to departmental billing.
• If you wish to charge printing to a departmental account, you must first submit a “Departmental Print Charge Form” (available at service desks in the labs and Library) to indicate the account number to be billed.
• If you print by authenticating with your OAK login ID and password, your printing fees will be invoiced monthly to your department; failure to submit a “Departmental Print Charge Form” will result in your fees being billed to your department’s primary account number.

Graduate Assistants and Teaching Assistants

• For printing personal materials, print by authenticating with your student OAK Login ID and Password.
• For printing departmental materials for yourself or a faculty member, print in Alden Library using a Vendacard purchased by your department.
• For printing departmental materials you wish to have charged to a departmental account number, follow these steps:
  1. From your departmental chair, obtain permission to use a departmental account number.
  2. Submit a “Departmental Print Charge Form” (available at service desks in the labs and Library) indicating the departmental account number.
  3. Print by authenticating with your faculty/staff OAK Login ID and password
  4. Failure to submit a “Departmental Print Charge Form” will result in your print charges being billed to your department’s primary account number.
  
• If you print departmental or faculty materials using your student OAK ID and password, the charges will appear on your monthly student bill. You may request reimbursement from your department, but paying reimbursements is up to your department.

Procedures for Community Members

• Print in Alden Library using a Vendacard.
• The Vendacard cost is 75¢; the card can be revalued. Printing cost is 7¢ per page.

Color Printing

There is one color printer, located in the Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Alden Library. All PCs, on any floor in the library, can print to this printer. To do so, you must choose Vended Color in the Print dialog box, before completing the Print command.

All users must use a VendaCard to pay for prints. The cost is 25¢ for 8.5 x 11 pages and 50¢ for 11 x 17. Be sure to choose the appropriate paper size when you select the printer.