Think before you print!
Many of the student computer labs on campus are supported through the Student Technology Fee and approximately $100,000 of the funds annually pay for printing in the labs. Unfortunately, an estimated 40 percent of all printing in the labs is considered waste due to lack of awareness of the size of documents or through duplicate printing. The dollars spent on wasted printing means fewer funds that are available for new and
updated equipment.
Southeastern’s Student Technology Fee provides computer labs on and off campus
for actively enrolled students. These computer labs have a print-management
software called GO PRINT installed that allows each student to manage the
number of prints he or she uses each semester. The goal of this system is to fairly
distribute an adequate amount of prints to each student (100 pages per academic
hour) and decrease the amount of printing waste. Significantly reducing printing
waste will enable the university to spend student technology dollars more
efficiently.
When a student
enters a student technology fee computer lab, the student must log into a computer
using his or her “W” number and password. To print a document they must select
“print” to open the print dialog box, select the details of the print job and
then click on “ok” to send the print job. This print job will be sent to the
print management system and held there until the student has a chance to review
the print job and determine if the student wants to send the job to the printer or
delete the job for reasons such as the number of pages waiting to be printed is
higher than the student thought.
In order to
release a print job once it has been reviewed, a print release system icon
is located in two places, on the desktop and in the lower, right hand corner in
the task bar. To start the print release process, the student clicks on this icon. Once the student
clicks on this icon the student will be brought to the “GoPrint” login page. It will
prompt the student to enter his or her account information (W# and password). Once
logged in, the student will see his or her print jobs (a current list of what the student sent to the
printer); the student's account summary (which includes the account balance for that
semester); and a transaction summary (which calculates the total cost of the
print jobs that are about to released). The student must first select a document by
checking the box next to the print job. This is when the cost will be calculated
in the transaction summary. If the student chooses to “Pay and Print” the print
job will be released from the print management system and sent to the printer. A
charge of 2.5 cents for each black and white sheet printed and a charge of 50 cents for
each color sheet printed will be reflected in the balance. If the job is
“cancelled", no prints will be charged to the account.
At this point the student can choose to “Pay and Print” or “Cancel” the job(s)
selected. After clicking “Pay and Print” the cost of the prints will be reduced
from the balance. If the job(s) is cancelled, there will be no charge.
The 5 steps in the Print Process are:
1. Log into the computer using W# and password.
2. Choose a document to be printed, select print and the print dialog box appears. After you determine the details of your print job and click “OK” the print job will be held by the print management system until you authorize it for release to the printer.
3. To print it, return to the desktop and click on the print icon and log into the
GoPrint software using your W# and password.
4.
Once logged in, you will see the following dialog box, notice your list of Print
Jobs (a current list of what you may want to print); your Account Summary (which
includes your account balance for that semester); and your Transaction Summary
(which calculates the total cost of the print job you select to print).
5. If you determine you want to delete a print
job or see that there are more pages than you want to print, check off the box
next to the print job and select the "Cancel jobs"
button. Return to your document and determine what you need to print.
If you want to print a job, check off the box next to the print job and then the
Transaction Summary will calculate the total you are going to be charged as well
as the total number of pages to be printed. Once you select
"Pay and Print" your print
job will be released to the printer and your balance will decline to reflect the
prints.
If you
click on the My Account tab at the top, you will see the following:
This will give you an
overview of your account. You will see your print history as well as all
account balances.
We really hope this will give students the opportunity to help us utilize the Student Technology Fee dollars to improve student technology at Southeastern instead of watching it be wasted when thrown away in the overflowing trashcans. For answers to questions about the print system procedures contact the lab attendant in each Student Technology Fee computer lab.
If you need extra prints, click here for information.
Printing in the Library for “Guests” (non-students)
Printing is available for $.05/page. Print cards may be purchased from the staff in the Circulation Department on the 1st floor.
Guests may use the public computers in the Reference Room, 2nd floor Serials Department, and 3rd floor Government Documents Department. Guests should login into the computer using the guest login displayed on the computers. After initiating print jobs, users must request assistance from library staff to
release print jobs.
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