Printing and scanning facilities

Printing

• Student printing at the University of Sydney
• Where can I print?
• Reducing your carbon footprint
• Costs
• How to request a refund
• How to use Student Printing

Scanning facilities

• Where to scan

Student printing at the University of Sydney

As a student you can print documents from faculty teaching labs, ICT Access Labs and Learning Hubs. The printing facilities differ from room to room, so make sure you check if back-to-back (or duplex) and colour printing is available in the lab location.

At the beginning of Semester 2, 2011 the University introduced a new print-management that allows you to manage your print jobs online and pay for your printing using your UniKey account. This means whenever you print something at a Faculty teaching lab, you don’t have to maintain or recharge a separate printing account with that Faculty; you just have to recharge your UniKey account! Your print jobs are also logged and managed online. To view your print jobs visit: sydney.edu.au/ict/print

Note: Some faculties have a “free print quota” for students enrolled in specific courses. These “free print quotas” are provided by specific faculties and only apply when you print from those faculty teaching labs. If you print a document at an ICT Access Lab or Learning Hub, the cost of your printing will be charged to your UniKey account.

Where can I print?

Printing facilities are available at all ICT Access Labs and Learning Hubs. You can print in black and white at all labs, however Colour Printing is only available at the following locations:

• Wentworth Learning Hub
• Law Access Lab
• Cumberland
• Camden

Reducing our carbon footprint

All printers that allow double-sided (or duplex) printing are set to print documents on both sides of the paper by default. Printers are also set to print in black and white by default. The good thing is this doesn’t cost as much as printing each page on a single piece of paper. Plus you’re reducing the amount of paper you use.

If you need to print your document in colour and/or on one side of the sheet of paper (eg if you’re printing out an assignment), then you need to specify these print settings in the application you are sending the document from. So if you’re printing a Microsoft Word document, make sure you change the Print Properties and set the document to print in colour and/or in single-sided mode before you send the job to the printer.

Printing costs

To encourage sustainable printing practices, printing prices were updated so you now pay per sheet of paper you use, not the number of sides you print on. In other words, if you print on one side of an A4 piece of paper it will cost you the same as printing on both sides of an A4 piece of paper.

How to request a refund

If you are printing from an ICT Access Lab or Learning Hub refund requests can be made with a staff member at an ICT Learning Hub.

If a staff member is unavailable please contact the ICT Helpdesk on (02) 9351 6000 to request a refund.