Friday, April 22, 2011

NEW COLOR LASER PRINTER IN INFOCOMMONS!


ATTENTION--- We have installed a new Color Printer in the Information Commons…
To use it---
FROM WINDOWS:
Select File, then Print
In the Printer Name Drop-down box, select \\printsrv-main\DOBLE-INFO-COLOR

FROM MacOS:
Select File, then Print
In the Printer Name Drop-down box, select DOBLE-INFO-COLOR



That’s it! 
If you've ever printed on-campus, the rest is exactly the same.  Just enter your username and password;  Check your balance by visiting:  http://lesley.edu/ut/payforprint. (MUST BE ONCAMPUS)

The cost is $0.50/page
*but there’s no 2-sided printing, so beware!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Labs & Classrooms Q2 Update!


Howdy, folks--

Hope you all are doing well.
The semester is coming to an end... Seems to pass by so fast!
We here in the Labs & Classrooms division have been working hard to put things together for the upcoming season change.

A couple of things you might find different for the upcoming weeks:


  • WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH
    • We are adding a new Color Laser printer in the Doble InfoCommons
      Our printing records indicate that the INFO COMMONS received the highest volume of printing in the last year (~90,000 pages/1900 jobs).  To help balance the load, we are putting an HP Laserjet cp3525x printer which will allow students to print 300dpi on 8.5x11" color prints
    • We have added 4 new boom-microphone stands to the equipment check-out list.
  • WITHIN THE NEXT 3 MONTHS
    • We are moving one of the HP Laserjet P4015's out of the MollyeLichter 24-hour computer lab and putting it into University Hall Training Room (3rd Floor Lab--- UNIV-3-084)
      There are currently two Black and White printers in the 24-hour lab and only one in the training room.  Normally, this wouldn't be a big deal, but Statistically speaking---
      the Mollye Lichter 24-hour lab's combined printing for the last year is approximately- - 30,000 pages/7000 jobs.   The Reading Room (~160,000 pages/31000 jobs) and UHALL Training Room (~120,000 pages/22000 jobs) represent a significantly larger print load which can be divided a little more evenly.
    • We are building a new image set for the labs & classrooms computers which will include a Dual-Boot Schematic featuring MacOSX 10.6.x and Windows7 Professional NEW!.
      The list of proposed software will include:
      • MS Office 2007/2008
      • MS Office 2010/2011 --NEW!
      • ArcGIS 9.3 (windows only)
      • Kurzweil 3000 (windows only)
      • Inspiration 8;  InspireData
      • Open Source Graphics Package which includes:  GIMP Graphics Editor, InkScape Vector Graphics, Blender 3D, Kompozer  NEW!
      • Cloud Storage Packages:  Dropbox, Flickr Uploader, Picasa  NEW!
      • Google Packages:  Earth 3D, Sketchup
      • Multimedia:  Real Player, QuickTime, iTunes, VLC Media Player, Audacity, Windows Media Player
      • Web Plugins:  Flash 10.x, Silverlight
      • Internet Apps:  Digsby, Pidgin, Skype, FileZilla
      • Web Browsers:  Firefox 4.0 NEW!, Internet Explorer 9 NEW!, Safari 5

        Our goal was to merely.... KEEP IT SIMPLE-- SLIM, SEXY, EFFICIENT.
    • We are also updating PaperCut PrintCharging to 11.x soon.  This will give us a whole range of new interface tweaks and usage upgrades.  Your charge accounts will still exist as they do, but the WebUI will have more features and a fresh look!
  • WITHIN THE NEXT 6 MONTHS
    • We may be looking to acquire additional components for check-out... including, but not limited to:  document cameras, microphones/microphone stands.
Thanks everyone for keeping up with the happenings in the labs & classrooms.
For more information on our operations, please visit our website:

and please feel free to send us a message:  labs@lesley.edu

Take care!

--- Richard Phung
Labs & Classrooms Coordinator
Lesley University

Thursday, April 14, 2011

OMG...

if you EVER see anything like this... PLEASE report it IMMEDIATELY!