The standard computing services allows students to print up to 400 black and white pages per term at no cost to all ITS Campus Computing Sites printers. (Double-sided printing counts as two pages.) Additional black and white pages are charged at $0.06 per printed side.
Billing methods for black and white printing beyond the pages included in the standard computing services and all color printing are:
All Campus Computing Sites printers can print double-sided (duplex). You need to manually select the duplex (2-sided) option. This procedure may vary from printer to printer. When printing duplex, you are charged per printed side of paper. A regular 8x11 black & white duplex print-out would count as 2 pages of your standard computing services printing allocation.
Why doesn't Sites set duplex printing as the default?
Tabloid (11x17) printing is available in the following locations:
Tabloid black & white printing does count against the standard computing services per term printing limit.
NOTE: Tabloid printing is charged as two 8x11 pages per printed-side. Printing a single-sided black and white tabloid page will be charged as two 8x11 black and white pages to your account (2 pages or $0.12). Printing duplex on a tabloid printer will result in 4 times the basic charge (4 x $0.06 = $0.24).
Color printing is available in the following locations:
The color printers are available for use by all current U-M Students, Faculty and Staff.
NOTE: Color printing is not included in the standard computing services. At all Campus Computing Site color printing locations, each printed page costs $0.40. These color-printing charges will be billed to student or departmental accounts. Selecting the duplex option for a 8x11 color print-out will result in charges for 2 color printed pages ($0.80).
CAUTION! If you print to a color printer, you will be charged for a color print job regardless of whether the item printed was black and white or color.
Color Tabloid (11x17) printing is available on the color printers in the following locations:
NOTE: Tabloid color printing is charged as two 8x11 pages per printed-side. Color printing is not included in the standard computing services. Printing a single-sided color tabloid page will be charged as two 8x11 color pages ($0.80). These color-printing charges will be billed to student or departmental accounts. Printing duplex on a color-tabloid printer will result in 4 times the basic charge (4 x $0.40 = $1.60).
Sites Printing, in development with the Entree Plus office, has created a new copy card program. This service allows students to make photocopies on Campus Computing Sites multi-fuction devices (MFDs) with a simple swipe of their Mcard. The Mcard serves as authentication as well as a portal to the 400 page sides included in the standard computing services. Students can now make copies without ever having to set up a pre-funded account, purchase an exclusive "copy-only card", or dig for loose change. Sites Printing also worked to ensure that these MFDs serve as printers as well as copiers; the days of copy-only machines are behind us. The Sites Printing Team plans on a more widespread deployment of these devices in the future.
Copy-Card Printers are currently available in the following sites:
Making Copies using your MCard
Basic Information: Copies made using your MCard are charged to your
standard computing services printing allocation. You can make 50 copies
per swipe. If you want to make a copy of multiple pages at one time,
place the pages face-up in the top feeder tray.
Campus Computing Sites now provides poster printing in the Angell Hall computing site. You can print up to 42" wide black and white and/or Color. Currently poster printing is only available at Angell Hall and costs $8.40 per linear foot. We will NOT provide ANY refunds based on any issue other than technical issues with the printer, i.e. bad ink cartridge, paper jam, etc.
NOTE: Poster printing is not included in the standard computing services. The poster printing charges will be billed to student or departmental accounts.
MPrint is a web-based printing application that allows certain documents to be sent to an authenticated web site with instructions to print to any ITS Campus Computing Sites printer. Mprint currently supports printing for PDFs and Office application file formats. It allows students using Wireless or personal computers from on or off campus to print to a specific Sites printer.
MPrint is available online at http://mprint.umich.edu and requires authentication.
Campus Computing Sites has switched to recycled paper for all of our black and white printing services. The acid free recycled paper is made from 30% post consumer recycled fiber and it is Environmental Chlorine Free (ECF).
Please keep in mind that Sites printing is provided to support the academic goals of the University. Course work and research-related printing meet this criteria, but flyers advertising social events do not! Please limit your printing to academic purposes only and use photocopiers for multiple copies whenever possible. ITS and the Provost's Office hope to be able to keep service levels high (and the price of printing low), but our ability to do so depends in part on whether students use printing resources in a responsible and appropriate way.
DO NOT insert different paper or other materials into the printers (ie. resumé paper or transparency sheets). These objects may jam and damage the printer's inner components, for which you will be held responsible.
DO NOT take paper from the Sites printers. Removing paper from the Sites printers is considered as an act of theft, and disciplinary action will be taken against you.
DO NOT power-off the printers. If you are experiencing any problems with the printers, contact the Sites staff or report the problem by calling 64-SITES, and select option #1.
Don't forget that by following a few environmentally-responsible practices we can significantly reduce the amount of unusable output we create in the Sites. A few simple resource-saving techniques include:
