CS Graduate Student Print Quotas
Graduate students are allowed to print 2000 pages per semester. One page is considered to be one side of one page.
Duplex printing counts as 2 pages even though only one sheet is used. You will be charged 5 cents per page once you exceed your quota.
You can check your print quota by running prusage on any Solaris machine in the grad lab.
Keep in mind:
- Check the format of the document before you print using lpr. Only text documents and .ps documents will print correctly.
Pictures, pdfs, .doc and other application document files will print in code and waste pages of your quota.
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Make sure you know which printer you are printing to. In windows this is fairly straight forward.
On your UNIX account, make sure you have a default printer assigned, and
remember that the default printer is set to be the printer in the grad lab.
If you print and nothing comes out, go check the grad lab before printing again, especially if the file is large. If you print a 100 page document 4 times to the wrong
printer, it will be deducted from your print quota.
- Print out large documents with multiple pages on each sheet. Windows usually includes this option in the printer dialogue box. On UNIX, use the "mpage" command instead of
lpr. Also take advantage of Powerpoint's built-in capability to print between 2 and 12 slides on each page when printing presentations and class notes.
For TAs and RAs
During the semester you should keep a record of all TA and RA related
printing. If you go over your 2000 page quota, you will receive an
email stating the amount you owe for your excess printouts. At this
point, you should contact the faculty member you work for and inform
them of the number of pages charged to your quota that were a direct
result of your research or teaching responsibilities. Research printing
will need to paid for with a cufs number, and the department will pay
for TA related printing. Your research advisor, or instructor, should
send email to Jim MacDonald () with the number of pages
that should be removed from your quota and charged to the department
or to a research cufs account.
See UNIX Printing and Windows Printing for more information.
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