The Library offers the following printers, if you would like help in choosing which printer is best to use, ask the staff for help:
Black Commons
- black and white laser printing on letter size paper
- from PCs, Macs, laptops
- this is the default printer for PCs and Macs in the Learning Commons
- located in the "printing and paper supply" zone in the Learning Commons
- cost is $0.10 single-sided or $0.16 double-sided (aka duplex)
- choose the print queue labeled "Black-Commons1-Single-Sided" to ensure a single-sided result, otherwise your results depend on software settings
- this queue feeds two identical Konica laserjets next to each other - check other if your job is not at one, or the nearby table
Colour Commons
- an HP colour laserjet printer printing on letter size paper
- from PCs, Macs, laptops
- located in the "printing and paper supply" zone in the Learning Commons
- cost is $0.20 single sided per printed side regardless of how much colour is in your document
- print queues default to single-sided
Konica MFD
- A Konica-Minolta multifunction device (MFD) which can print black and white or colour with laser printer, printing on letter or legal size paper
- USB stick printing only
- located in the "printing and paper supply" zone in the Learning Commons
- cost $0.10 per printed side black or $0.20 per side colour, can print either single-sided or double-sided but no discount for double-sided printing.
- cost is not charged to your account from the computer - you need to either tap your campus card OR insert coins to pay for your print job at the MFD
PrimoPDF
- On the Dell PCs, not really a printer, but listed as if it is a print queue
- Enables students to "print" their job from any application to a PDF file instead of to an actual printer
- Recommendation: printing to PDF file first from web browsers or any software with unexpected layout issues (eg spreadsheets, specialty software). This is a no charge examination of what the printout will look like using Adobe Reader. Adobe also will give more control over print layout, duplex, etc.
- Printing to a PDF also allows you to upload your print job to WebPrint which can sometimes solve intermittent print problems with the regular queues on both PCs and Macs, or to a USB stick for printing on the MFDs if the printing network is down.
Macs have a "Save to PDF" function at the bottom of their standard print dialogue box rather than listing it as another printer queue.
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