Printing Quotas

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Students and faculty receive a printing allowance, or quota, to use on NINJa printers. Printers on the NINJa system are in various locations. The amount you are allotted to print depends on your university affiliation and the location of the printer. This amount is calculated per sheet of paper; not per printed side. You can find details about your quota below. Where you do not have a quota you may print after purchasing Printing Dollars.

You can also check your print quota online.

Print Quota Details

All students and faculty receive a printing quota on all CUIT and Library printers located across the Morningside campus. Weekly quotas cycle on Saturday night around midnight and can be used for black and white printing.

Who	Quota Allotment
Undergraduate Students (Columbia College, Engineering, General Studies, Barnard)	100 pages/week + 100 pages/semester reserve
Graduate Students*	20 pages/week
Graduate Students with $35 extended accounts (see below)	100 pages/week
School of Social Work Students	100 pages/week
Faculty and Instructors	100 pages/week
TA's	100 pages/week
Staff and Visitors	No quota, purchase here

* excluding School of Social Work students

Students of the School of Social Work receive a printing quota on all School of Social Work printers (located in the Social Work building). Semester quotas cycle at the end of a semester and can be used for black and white printing.

Who	Quota Allotment
School of Social Work Students	1500 pages/semester
non- School of Social Work affiliates	No quota, purchase here
Visitors	No quota, purchase here

Students of the Medical Center receive a printing quota on all Medical Center printers (located on the Medical Center campus). Semester quotas cylcle at the end of a semester. These quotas can be used for either black & white or color printing.

Who Quota Allotment

Medical Center Students 700 pages/semester
(or 70 color/semester)

Medical Center Faculty/Staff 700 pages/semester
(or 70 color/semester)

non- Medical Center affiliates No quota, purchase here

Visitors No quota, purchase here

Color Printing

There are no allotted quota of color pages for printing on the Morningside campus. To print in color you must purchase Printing Dollars. The cost for color laser printing is $1.00 per page.

Color printing is available in the following locations:

251 Mudd (for general use)
215 International Affairs Building (for numeric and geo-spatial materials)

Purchasing Printing Dollars

Users have the option of pre-purchasing Printing Dollars online or at the CUIT Computing Support Center. The cost for black and white laser printing is $0.10 per page; the cost for color laser printing is $1.00 per page. Purchased Printing Dollars, sold in $5 increments, are added to your account and can be used for printing at any print station. Purchased Printing Dollars carry over from week to week, as long as your computer account remains valid.

Extended Accounts

One hundred (duplex or simplex) sheets of printing per week (known as the printing quota) are provided with student extended and faculty instructor accounts. The printing quota is calculated per sheet of paper; not per printed side. Unused printing quota pages do not carry over to the next week. Users requiring more laser printing may purchase additional Printing Dollars; the cost is $0.10 per page, sold in $5 increments. Additional purchased Printing Dollars carry over from week to week, and remain available for as long as your computer account remains valid.

Graduate students may upgrade their basic accounts to extended accounts.

Checking the Number of Remaining Pages and Print Account Activity

You can check your print account balance in two ways: check online and from CUNIX.

When you check online you can also take a look at a detailed history of your printing and purchasing activity.

From CUNIX type pages at the $ prompt, or type pages -v to see how many pages you have available, as well as a detailed listing of where you have printed in the past week.