Printing in the Library: Quick Facts

Cost: 11 cents per copy (double-sided costs 11 cents per side). Exception: if printing to photocopier and using coins, 15 cents per copy (see Photocopier Printing below). Colour printing is 50 cents per copy/side (see below for details).

Where to pay: UPEI students/staff, add money to your campus account. See "Campus Account" below.  Visitors: add money to your UPEI card if you have one, or use coins. See Photocopier Printing below.

Location: Depends where you are. Special instructions for wireless (laptop) printing. 

 The laser printer in the Learning Commons is named by its queue, HP-RLOBBY-Laser.

Problems? See Troubleshooting Printing Problems or ask staff for assistance.

Campus Account (UPEI students/staff only)

Print to laser printers using the login-based print campus accounting system as used in the computer labs and elsewhere on campus.

NOTE: This is NOT the same as your balance on your UPEI card. That balance is for photocopies - see Photocopier Printing below.

Use the kiosk in the lobby behind the stairs to add money to your account. Additional kiosks are located in the Kelley Building and AVC Building labs.

Photocopier Printing (anyone)

With a USB Flash/Thumb Drive:

The Xerox WorkCentre photocopiers allow users to print directly from a USB stick with no computer involved. The xerox copiers will read the following file formats from USB sticks: tif - pdf - jpg - jpeg - txt - prn - ps - pcl - and tfs
They will not read: Word, PowerPoint, or Excel native documents (doc/docx, xls/xlsx or ppt/pptx).

This method only works with solid state (flash) memory devices - portable external hard drives, even with USB cords, will not work because they will not get enough power through the USB port to function.

All photocopier printing:

The photocopier takes coins or a UPEI card with money added to it.  Printing to the photocopier costs 11 cents per copy using your UPEI card, or 15 cents per copy using coins.

Circulation staff can add your money to your UPEI card for you.

To print to a photocopier (only from designated computers that can't print to the Learning Commons laser, see chart above for details):

1. Be sure to name your file first! It will help you recognize which job is yours! Select print as you normally would.
2. Go to the appropriate photocopier  (on the main floor, that's #2, on the top floor it's #5).
3. Insert coins or campus card.
4. Press the Job Status button on the copier.  The owner column displays the name of the PC that sent each print job.  So a patron that prints from OPAC1 needs to look for a job with OPAC1 in the owner column.  The Details button which is also located on the Job Status screen provides additional info like the time and date the print job was sent.  This can be helpful when there is more than one job for any given PC.
5. Press once on the display screen to select the appropriate print job then press the Release button.

Duplex (double-sided) Printing

Duplex printing: The Learning Commons printer supports double-sided ("duplex") printing. Per campus policy, double-sided printing is the default, although the user before you may have changed it, so always check. To change it just select the "everyday" option in your print dialogue box (click on Preferences or Properties next to the printer name). On the Macs, click on the little down arrow next to the printer name to find the checkbox to choose whether to print on both sides or not. See the yellow "stickie" on the Mac desktop for more information.

Colour Printing

The Learning Commons also has a colour printer, available only for UPEI students to use, and only from the Macs and networked Dells. All print jobs sent to this printer will be charged the higher 50 cents per page rate, even if the print job itself has only black and white on it.

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