Wireless Printing COMING SOON!!!

We are in the process of building-out a few installers for our on-campus printers that will allow our users to print from the wireless networks.
It's been a long-time coming!

A few restrictions so far:
1)  This only works from the Lesley_Secured wireless network... if you are on Lesley Wireless, it is recommended that you search for the lesley_secured WPA key found on the UT website.
2)  We have only tested this for OSX Snow Leopard, OSX Lion, and Windows 7... if you have WinXP or anything older than Snow Leopard, we can't guarantee that it works.
3)  We do NOT have an uninstaller, so if you no longer want to have those printers installed, all you need to do is DELETE or REMOVE the printer from your printer list.
4)  In order to print, you need to have the PCClient application running on your computer. *included in the packages below:

Right now, we are in testing phase and are posting the links to the installers for people to test with us.
The links below contain files necessary to install the network printers and the PCClient that allows you to make print charges.

MacOSX (10.7, 10.6) - LINK
Windows7 x64 - LINK
Windows7 x32 - LINK

We are writing up instructions which will be posted SOON.

Reading Room Printer is OUT OF ORDER

ATTN Community Members---

The printer in the Reading Room (UNIV-3-069) is out of order.

Basically, the Maintenance Kit needs to be replaced.

We have ordered more, and will have it up and running ASAP.

You will still be able to print, but you will need to send the print to the Training Room.  To do so, when it asks which printer you wish to send the print, simply select UNIV-3-084  (it will be on the drop-down of other installed printers).

If you are unsure how to do this, you may also visit the Training Room (which is around the corner from the Reading Room) on the 3^rd Floor of University Hall.

IF YOU HAVE SENT A PRINT THAT DID NOT COME OUT and would like a REFUND for your print job…

1)  LOGIN to your Print Account by visiting:   http://lesley.edu/ut/payforprint

2)  Select TRANSACTION HISTORY….

3)  Then send an email to UT@LESLEY.EDU with the subject line “PRINT REFUND”
         Copy and Paste the exact PRINT HISTORY that you would like refunded…
         Be sure to include:
         the document name,

the COST,

the # of Pages

time/date of the print

*this goes for any future refund requests too.

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!

can i add money to print with a credit card

yes... kind of..

but you must first put the money onto your CashLynx - LesleyCard aka. Student ID.
To do this, go to http://lesleycard.com
then type-in your card #'s....

You can only use your LesleyCard to buy print credits.

Ask me anything

Print Statistics @ Lesley University...

I'll try not to blow your mind, folks...

We have been using the PaperCut Pay-for-Print system at Lesley since the Fall 2009.

The Pay-for-Print @ Lesley is not a scheme to steal your money...  In fact, we are simply trying to track your usage so that we can better provide materials for you and alleviate some of the operational costs associated with those materials.

Looking at printing on the Cambridge Campuses alone for the last year, we get some interesting statistics...

Fall 2010 ----  August 23, 2010 to date (November 10, 2010)

Total pages:   77,151

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Spring 2010 ----  January 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010

Total pages:  140,930

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Fall 2009 ----  August 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009

Total pages:  73,751

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Pretty neat, huh?

Revamped Pay-for-Print Site

Looks like our Labs Coordinator has updated the UT website to reflect the current policies around Pay-for-Print at Lesley...
You can check it out here:

http://lesley.edu/ut/academic/printing.html

What do you think?

It seems pretty straightforward, but then again... We ARE on the INSIDE.

Pay-for-Print Preliminary Tests

I drafted these diagrams to explain how some of the new pay-for-print systems would operate in our print environment...
I'm not going to get into explanations now, but here are the highlights:

Warning: The content on this post was written while Richard Phung, the Labs & Classrooms Coordinator, held the title of Computer Lab Technician at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.... the content expressed here is out of date, at best.

Before pay-for-print

PaperCut

I ended up using the schematics above to configure the pay-for-print systems that went into place in Fall 2009.