Monday, May 23, 2011

PRINTER SERVER UPGRADES--- PRINTING IS DISABLED

PRINT SERVICES OFFLINE
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

Howdy, folks---

In case you haven't been following our Twitter, all print services are currently disabled for our classrooms.
We are slowly bringing them back online.

Please stay tuned!

In the meantime, you can check your print balances by visiting our new user interface:
http://lesley.edu/ut/payforprint
*which is accessible by on-campus only!

Thanks for your patience!


-- LesleyLabs

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!

 





Thursday, March 31, 2011

Bolting these bad-boys down!

Howdy, folks---

I had to take a little more action in preventing the movement of computer workstations from the front of the classrooms in Doble and Wolfard...

People just kept moving them and disconnecting everything.






Now, maybe they will stay put.

Friday, March 18, 2011

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.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

News and Comment...

Howdy, folks--

It's been a while since we've posted anything, but I just wanted to let you know about a few things that are going on around our department.

First of all, we recently replaced the Kiosk in the Student Center.
The machine that was there was having some serious problems, so we swapped it out with one of our fresh computer images like those in the labs.

Secondly, we have been working to update the ut website (http://lesley.edu/ut/academic)...