The University of Cincinnati spends an estimated $600,000 each year to provide "free" printing to UC students and other users of public computer labs. That computes to over 23 million pages (approximately 118 tons or 2,831 trees) of printed-paper every year. A significant portion of this printing is waste--printouts that are simply discarded, often without ever leaving the printer.
To reduce print volume and better manage costs, most UC computer labs and libraries have instituted a charge to print and new print procedures using Uniprint printer management software from Pharos, Inc. The charge is strictly a cost-recovery measure. Funds collected from Uniprint-managed printers will be used to offset the costs of printing; including printers, supplies (paper, toner, etc.), and the Uniprint system itself.
Printing cost is $.07 per print and is paid for by the user through a Bearcat Campus Card.
In order to print…
As alternatives to printing, users are encouraged to save documents to disk, e-mail brief documents to themselves, use double-sided printing (which will be charged as two prints per page), or simply to read the documents on the screen.
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To print any web page on the University Libraries site, simply use your browsers "print" button. The images, and colors are automatically removed from printed documents to conserve space and ink. Any printing problems can be reported to the webmaster here.
