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Table of Contents You can print A4 black and white pages from any computer in the Information Commons. All locations have access to at least one high speed, high quality, duplexing laser printer. Paper is provided, and the entire print system is constantly monitored to ensure that the printers are always in working order. There are two ways to pay for a print job:
In both circumstances you simply print a document in the normal way. After the document is sent to the printer, a special dialogue box appears, confirming how the print job was funded and reminding you of the balance of your Print Quota or your Library Copy Card. There is no adding paper, no swiping cards. Remember the Information Commons is a shared facility: always collect your printed documents promptly, and check that you haven't picked up anyone else's documents by mistake. Each semester you will receive a modest printing quota. Your Print Quota account is topped up in January and July of each year. There is no accumulation between semesters. In preparation for Semester 2, printing quotas will be re-set on July 11 . Your Print Quota can only be used from Information Commons computers. Other locally maintained computers and printers around the campus are outside this system. A list of Information Commons locations is available online. How much is my Print Quota? See here. When your Print Quota runs out, the Information Commons printing service can accept payment for extra printing through a library copy card. This is the same card you use to pay for photocopying in library buildings. When the Information Commons printing service finds your Print Quota balance at zero, it then checks whether you have a copy card registered for use with the print system. If it finds one, it debits the monetary value of the print job from your library copy card account. So there are two prerequisites to printing outside of quota:
Details on both these steps are given below. Library Copy Cards are primarily used to pay for photocopying in library buildings, but can also be used to pay for other services in the library as well as library fines. You buy a card and "load" money onto it from time to time. The IC print system can also debit against the balance of one of these cards to pay for printing. Library Copy Card dispensers (Autoloaders) are located in Chifley, Hancock, Menzies, Law and Music Libraries. Alternatively cards can be purchased over the counter in Art, Chemistry, Earth Science, Medical Science, Music and Physical Science Libraries. More information is available online. Library copy cards can (and should) be protected with a PIN (Personal Identification Number). This will protect the money associated with the card from being used fraudulently by someone else. As soon as you have activated a library copy card, you can use it to pay for photocopiers and fines in the Library, but you can't use it to print without first registering it with the Information Commons print system. Registering is a 30-second procedure done online. That card is then registered under your name (your Uni ID) with the Information Commons print system. This means you can also use the money on that card to pay for printing documents in the Information Commons. You can only ever have one library copy card registered under your name in the print system. You are free to buy as many copy cards as you like to pay for photocopying or library fines. But at any one time you can only ever have one such card linked to the Information Commons printing system. For security reasons there is no online process for un-registering a registered card. If for any reason you want to de-register a card and register another, you will have to come in person to a library circulation desk or to the Chifley InfoPlace (level 3 Chifley building). Library staff will check your identity and unregister the card for you. The charges for printing outside of quota are available online. There is a colour printer on L3 of the Chifley building and L1 of the Hancock building. There is an A3 black and white printer in the Music Library. Special charges apply to these printers.
WarningAll pages printed through the colour printer are charged at the colour rate. The default printers on all Infomation Commons computers are black and white. In some locations where a colour printer is close by, you can choose to print to a colour printer from within the print dialogue boxes. The whole document is charged at the colour rate, even if certain or all pages only use black and white. ImportantTo overcome the problem of students not being alerted to the fact that their quota will be debited at color rates when they choose to print a B&W document on a color printer, the color printers have been temporarily removed from the uniform printing service. We are currently testing a "Please confirm (or not)" popup that tells you exactly how much your quota will be debited before you print. We expect this to be implemented in the mid-year break. In the meantime you will need to swipe a Library copy card with available funds to print to color printers - you cannot use your print quota. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The Information Commons is managed by the Division of Information.
If you have any comment on the new printing system, please e-mail
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