Printing

Doyle Library || Mahoney Library || How to Print

Doyle Library

Printing from Computers || Printing from Microforms

All black & white printing and photocopying in the Doyle Library costs 10 cents per printed page. (If you print on both sides of the paper, your print job would therefore cost 20 cents per sheet of paper, 10 cents for the front and 10 cents for the back.) Color prints cost 50 cents. You'll need a "print card" to make the networked printing system work.

On each Library floor of the building (i.e. the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors), there is a Print & Copy Center with a black and white printer, a color printer and a photocopy machine.

Computers on each Library floor are networked to a black and white printer and a color printer in the Print & Copy Center on the same floor. (If the printer on your floor is not operating, ask a Library staff member to show you how to reset your computer so that it sends your document to a printer on a different floor.)

To buy a "print card," use the vending machines in the Print & Copy Centers on the 2nd or 4th floor . (No cards can be purchased on the 3rd floor.) Cards cost $1.00, then you'll need to put money on the card in order to make prints. Instructions are on the front of the vending machine. To add money to your card, insert it into the vending machine and follow the instructions on the front of the machine.

Mahoney Library

All black & white printing and photocopying in the Mahoney Library costs 10 cents per printed page. (If you print on both sides of the paper, your print job would therefore cost 20 cents per sheet of paper, 10 cents for the front and 10 cents for the back.) Color prints cost 50 cents. You'll need a "print card" to make the networked printing system work.

Computers in Mahoney Library are networked to a black and white printer and a color printer in the Print & Copy Center in the first floor Reference area. To buy a "print card," use the vending machine in the Print & Copy Center. Cards cost $1.00, then you'll need to put money on the card in order to make prints. Instructions are on the front of the vending machine

How to Print

To print a webpage or other document:

1. Select print from the File menu as usual. This will send your item to the Print Center on your floor. (Mahoney Library has only one Print Center, on the first floor.)
2. Write down the code for the computer you are using. (It's on the white tape on the front of your computer--something like B02-6342.) You'll need this to figure out which item is yours when you get to the Print Center to pick up your copies.
3. Go to the Print Center on your floor. (Ask a Library staff person if you can't locate the Print Center on your floor.)
4. If you don't yet have a print card, purchase one from the vending machine and put some money on it.
5. Insert your print card into the small box next to the computer in the Print Center.
6. On the computer screen, find the code number for the computer from which you sent your print job, and click on it.
7. Select your webpage(s) or article(s) from the list of items which appears on the screen and click them.
8. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete your print job.

Tips for printing articles from the Library's online databases:

1. Before you give the "Print" command, look on the screen and see if there is a "Print" choice on the same page as the article you're trying to print. If so, click it. This will save you money. It will reformat the article you've selected so that only the text of the article appears on the screen and you won't have to pay to print all the publisher logo, all the instruction buttons, etc. which appeared on the original article screen. (Don't forget that you can always e-mail the article(s) to yourself and print them at home where it doesn't cost you anything at all to print.)
2. Select "Print" from the File menu as usual and follow the instructions above.

Tips for printing word processed documents like class papers and assignments:

1. Use Microsoft Word to type your class papers and reports. If you use Wordpad or Notepad instead, you will not have as many formatting options, and the formatting might not print correctly when you send your paper to the printer.
2. Before you send your document to the printer, SAVE it with a name that you'll recognize when you get to the Print Center. (You can use your own name or a topic or anything else you want to name it.) If you don't name your document, then when you look at the documents on the screen in the Print Center, you'll see a list of documents, all called "Document," and it will be difficult or impossible to tell which of the documents is yours.
3. Be sure to SAVE YOUR WORK to your flash drive often as you're working, so that if some problem occurs on the computer, you won't lose your work.

Printing from Microfilm and Microfiche (Doyle Library only)

Some very old issues of magazines and newspapers are stored in the libraries on microfilm or microfiche, a technology which photocopies each page then reduces the pages many times on a piece of film to save storage space. A microform reader/printer is available in the second-floor Periodicals area of the Doyle Library, but it does not use the Library's regular print card. If you'd like to read or print from any of the Library's microforms, ask for assistance at the Doyle Library Periodicals Desk on the second floor. Copies are ten cents per page.