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Printing at the institute

Via Notebook / Desktop

Overview

All printers of the institute are connected to a central print server, which logs and counts all print jobs. Before a print is sent to a printer, the system gets the page number and job settings, calculates the costs and checks permissions and credits for the sender. After a successful printing, the credits will be subtracted.

Credits and free printing

black and white

colored

members of the institute*

free

free**

students***

costs

costs

* Members of the institute are: Professors, Staff, Assistants (PostDocs and PhDs), Guests.
** Assistants need to refill the credit (for free) after printing 100 colored pages per semester.
*** Students with 'Hauptfach Mathematik' or "Hauptfach Bio Statistic" get free credits worth 20 SFr. per semester.

A printjob is counted based on page number, page format (A4 or A3), simplex or duplex and black/white or color. Special settings like A3, color or stapling are only available on some special printers like jcolor, ka and kcolor.

Prices for all printers with different settings!

Check your current print credit

  • log in to http://www.math.uzh.ch/my

  • Switch to the printing tab
  • You will see the current amount of credit you have left and your own print history.

Charging Credit

You can view your credit, your settings and your last 50 print jobs in your account admin panel: myMath.
Users can charge credits at the office 27-J-40. The credit can be used immediately.
Assistants can also write an email to the system support, but in this case probably has to wait some time until the credit is loaded up.

Printer Names

  • Printer are named after the room they are in.
  • Public printers are:
    • h52
    • jcolor
    • j11
    • k
    • k49
    • k49color
  • Public color printers are available in K49 and on the J floor.
    • jcolor
    • k49color

Printing from your notebook

Please review the specific page:

You can also use our thinlinc client to connect to our enviroment where everything is set up already.

For additional information about how to connect to our servers from your computer or how to transfer data from your device to our thinlinc servers go to https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/public/thinlinc

Printing on Group-Accounts

People, who are assigned to a group (made by the IT), can print on this group account. All members of the group have a link on the myMath Homepage, where they can see the Print-History of the group.

For printing on a group account, a job-billing information has to be sent with the print job. In many print dialogs (for example: Firefox) you have in the tab 'Job' in the section 'Job Details' a field 'Billing info'. There you must enter the group name (all lowercase) to print on the group account. In other print dialogs (especially the gtklp dialog) you have in the tab 'Special' the field 'Extra Options'. There you must type: job-billing=<group> where '<group>' is again the lowercase group name you wish to print on. On a console (with lp command) you can use the option -o job-billing=<group> for printing on a group account.

If you have problems with printing on a group account, please come to J11 or J40.

Create own printer instances

Create own printer instances with personal settings. Such instances are only available via commandline.

[user@host
# Create an instance 'jcolor/bw', which prints to 'jcolor', but always in b/w:
$ lpoptions -p jcolor/bw -o ColorModel=Gray

# To use the new instance:
$ lp -d jcolor/bw output.pdf