Plan ahead, don't be caught without pages!

CUSSW students are allocated 100 pages per week and printing quotas pages do not carry over to the next week. During finals you may need additional pages for printing. Therefore we recommend that you make best use of your 100 pages. Below please find a few helpful tips to improve printing efficiency.

To purchase additional pages, go to the AcIS Computing Support Center located in 102 Philosophy Hall. The cost is $0.20 per page, sold in $1 increments. Additional purchased pages carry over from week to week, even from semester to semester. The Support Center hours are: Monday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Fridays from 12 noon to 5:00 p.m.

Tips for making the most of 100 page printing quota

• Printing quotas are reset between Saturday evening and Sunday at 3:30 a.m. Use up your pages on Saturday and start fresh on Sunday.
  
  
• To find out how many pages are currently available for printing on your account select the "Pages" icon from the At Ease "Application" layout on a lab Macintosh computer. From UNIX, 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.
• Before sending a paper to the printer use the Spelling checker.
• Use the word processor's Print Preview function. This function allows you to see how your paper will come out of the printer before it is printed. You can check and correct pagination, margins, headers & footers errors without wasting paper.
• If you need a draft print-out use the double-side printing option. Only actual sheets of paper will be counted, not printed sides.
• Put more information on each printed page: e.g. combine several e-mail message and print them all together. This will spare you pages and authenticating time at the jake station. Ask the lab consultant for instructions on how to do this.
• Be more selective when printing from the web. Often web pages are very long and only a small portion may be of interest to the reader, so select the key information and print only what is needed. Use the cut-and-paste technique between applications to select the text you are interested in, copy it and past it into a word processor file. Ask the consultant on duty to show it to you.

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