LFCDS Printers
Overview
We have lots & lots of laser printers!
Student Print Limitations
To prevent accidental waste, student print jobs have the following limits placed upon them. There is no message that the print jobs were denied (they just never get sent to the printer).
- Maximum pages per print job: 50
- Maximum copies per print job: 5
- Print jobs of the same document will be ignored if reprinted within: 22 seconds
Print Cost Accounting
Our Print Manager Plus software automatically tracks all of the print jobs printed from your account and the associated per-page costs. These costs are then allocated to the primary department to which your position is assigned. The Information Technology Department provides departments (via the Business Office) with a monthly report of printing statistics & cost. The report lists the number of pages printed on B&W printers, on color printers, the combined total number of pages, as well as the number of sheets of paper consumed (which is less than the page count due to double-sided printing). Since printing costs vary by printer model, the total cost does not reflect a simple multiplier of the page counts in each category, but instead is derived from a detailed accounting of prints made on each printer. (See below for determining the per page cost for each printer.)
IT cannot split printing costs on a job-by-job basis. If you will be printing costly print jobs (typically many color pages) for use outside of your position's primary department that would materially impact your primary department's budget, we recommend that you prepare the document and save it to a location on the Employee share accessible to someone in the appropriate department and allow them to print the job so that costs are properly accounted. If that is not a workable solution, then keep track of the page count and printer for such larger jobs and e-mail the information to the IT Service Center. We will work with the Business Office make manual adjustments for largejobs that will materially impact budgets.
Please help the school save money & conserve trees by printing judiciously. Take advantage of our ubiquitous computing infrastructure by sending e-mail & reading on-screen. Since color printing cost ~10X more than black & white, please print to black & white whenever possible. Thanks for your help!
Resources
How To View Your Printer Listing
- On your Microsoft Windows computer, navigate to (right-side column).
- You will now see the list of printers you are able to print to.
- Tip: Double-click any printer to see more details about it, such as the per page print cost and its current print queue.
How To Set Your Default Printer
Since most employees print to a specific printer more often than others, they would want to set it as their default printer. This marks a printer as the one that most programs will select to print to by default. It is recommended that a B&W printer is selected since they are much more cost efficient to print to than color printers.
- Follow the directions above to view your printer listing
- Right-click on the printer that you want to set as your default and choose
- The printer will now have a checkmark on the printer icon indicating that it is your default printer
