Information Bulletin regarding Steacie Printing

A print charging system using the Library photocopy card is being 
introduced for undergraduate students using printers in the Steacie 
Science building in early September.  The charge is 9 cents per page and 
applies to printing from the Steacie labs, from home and from the
central 
CCS UNIX email and Phoenix systems. CCS expects to have the system 
operational starting Monday, Sept. 8, 1997.

The Steacie lab workstations, except for Glade, are set up to default to 
the print queue visible at both the T107B and 014 release stations. To 
print from Phoenix and email applications, and when printing from home, 
undergraduates must chose the print queue steacie_labs  (eg. -p 
steacie_labs <filename>).  The release stations are available during the 
following times:
T107B Steacie (inside T107A MAC lab)   9:00am -10:00pm, Monday - Friday, 
              9:00am- 5:00pm, Saturday & Sunday 
014 Steacie PC and MAC lab     24 hours, 7 days a week

Undergraduate students using the Glade lab will print to the printers 
located right in the 021 lab.  Printing from Windows 95 applications on 
Glade PCs is set up to default to these printers.  If students are using 
the Glade lab for unix (Phoenix, email) printing they should chose the 
glade_lab queue (eg. -p glade_lab <filename>) to send their print job to 
the Glade printers. 

To release a file to the printer after using the print command in an 
application, students go to a print release station in either Glade or 
the 014 or T107 Steacie public labs, depending on which queue they used, 
and take the following steps:
·      click on their print job with the mouse, 
·      click on the "Print" button at the bottom of the page, 
·      insert their photocopy card into the card reader beside the 
release station, 
·      click on "Accepted Print Job" button to print after reading the 
total number of pages and total cost of the job.  The charge is 9 cents
a 
page.

A print job will stay in the release station queue for 2 hours, after 
which it is deleted from the queue. Once the job prints it will 
automatically be deleted.  CCS will not issue refunds for printing.  
Students with complaints regarding print output should go to Help 
Services in T128 Steacie for possible re-printing.

Undergraduate students can no longer print to the Oak and LASER1 queues. 
Faculty, staff and graduate students printing from Phoenix, the Steacie 
labs and email are now restricted to Oak queue, which is serviced by 3
HP 
cut-sheet laser printers.  LASER1 (continuous form paper) is no longer 
available for any Phoenix and email printing.  Collection of print jobs 
from the Oak queue by faculty, staff and graduate students will continue 
to be handled by Operations staff in 027 Steacie. The LASER1 queue will 
continue to be available for administrative printing, for other than 
email.
-- 
Susan Spence
Director, Computing & Communications Services
York University
4700 Keele St.,
North York, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-5593  
Fax: (416) 736-5701