Printing Costs

The School maintains facilities for printing and plotting in greyscale and color over a wide range of sizes and media. All printing is managed centrally and is available from all computer platforms, including student-owned personal computers. All printing is also tracked and charged to user accounts.

Check your Printing Account Balance

Printing Costs and Accounts

To defray growing costs of printing and reduce unnecessary waste, the school has implemented a Printer Cost Accounting system to monitor and charge for all student printing in the building. Each student in the School of Architecture is given a printing charge account tied to their computing userID (logon ID). All prints sent under such a logon will be charged to the corresponding Printing Charge Account. Note that the School of Architecture maintains a separate and different system for print charging than ITC labs and the University Library system. Students can not use their Cavalier Advantage Card for printing on Architecture printers. Student's also cannot use their Architecture printing account to print on ITC or Library printers. For details on the University printing system, please see Public Laser Printers (ITC)

Architecture School Printing Charge Accounts operate much like a bank debit account or the Cavalier Advantage system, only without the card. Account balances and charges are maintained electronically on a central server. Print charges debit against cash put onto the account ahead of time. All money placed into an account can be used as the student sees fit - greyscale laser, color laser, or large format plots. This money only impacts printers within the School of Architecture.

Deposits into your printing charge account can be made in two ways:

1. Cash Deposit Station - On the fourth floor near 402, there is a walk-up cash deposit machine for placing cash into your printing account. Instructions for using the machine are posted on it.
2. Cash and Check deposits can also be made at the Business Office (121A) during regular business hours.

As a student's printing account approaches and reaches a $0 cash balance, students should add more money to the account. The Computing Help Desk does not handle payments.

Money can be accepted in either Cash or Check. There will be no cash refunds, only credits to a student's printing account balance.

Students should monitor the balances of their Printing Charge Accounts. View your Account Balance and a statement of all charges. Payments cannot be made over the web. Please see the Business Office.

Credit refunds will be given for print jobs that dissapear or never come out, but are charged anyway. To obtain a refund, please see the Business Office in Room 121A.

Printers and Media

The following is a schedule of printers and per-page costs associated with each:

See Printing Addendum handout for more details.

Printing from Student Owned Computers

Printing will only be allowed on A-School printers if a valid userID account is found. All school-owned computers automatically identify the user by way of logon. Student's own personal computers must be set up to properly do the same. If your personal computer is not set up with the proper ID information, you will receive notification when printing that a printing account does not exist.

Windows and MacOSX - Setup a local login account on your computer to match your UVA computingID. This is the same as you were given for your school and UVA email login accounts, and is in the form of "abc1d". By using this account, all prints will be charged properly. If you need assistance setting up your computer properly, please see the computing help-desk in room 131.

Macintosh (OS9 and prior) - Set your computer's Owner Name in the File Sharing Control Panel to match your UVA computingID. This is the same as you were given for your school and UVA email login accounts, and is in the form of "abc1d". If you need assistance setting up your computer properly, please see the computing help-desk in room 131.

Printing from Billing Code Enabled Printers

Several public computers are equipped with Billing Code software. Billing codes established for use with classes and projects can be used only from these computers. Please note that these computers will always challenge the user for a billing code.

Instructions

Billing Code Printing

1. Print normally from your application.
2. Login using your Computing ID and Arch Password. (Login credentials are cached for 2 hours or until logout)
3. Type or Search for your Billing Code.
4. The software will present a printing summary that includes the cost of the print job as well as the current balance of the Billing Code account. You can then choose to Accept or Deny the print job.

Personal Printing

1. Print normally from your application.
2. Login using your Computing ID and Arch Password. (Login credentials are cached for 2 hours or until logout)
3. When challenged for a Billing Code leave the field blank.
4. The software will present a printing summary that includes the cost of the print job as well as the current balance of your account. You can then choose to Accept or Deny the print job.