Guidelines on and Acceptable use of the School's Printer Facilities

Acceptable use of the School's Printer Facilities

The printers are provided to support the Schools teaching, research and administration. While a small amount of personal use is acceptable this should not be abused.

Activities, which are unacceptable, include:

  • Producing a large number of copies of a document, which could easily be photocopied.
  • Printing large and inappropriate documents on the colour printers
  • Use of the printing facilities for commercial gain.
  • Printing of documents or reports for non Crystallography users.
    For example
    • Printing a project for a student from a different institution.

Guidelines on use and Consideration for other users.

  • Think before you print
    do you need to print all this or can you edit the file and only print the part needed ( or head , tail or grep)
  • Please don't print *.ps but use serveral print commands then we can put other urgent print jobs before some of yours
  • Please don't fill the print queues with large number of jobs and then diappear.
  • A large number of print jobs can full up the spool area on the printer server and stop all printing.
  • If your print job does not come out of the printer immediately please Check the following
    • Is the print job still on the queue
    • Did you send it to the right printer
    • Did you send it to a different printer than the one you checked
    • Does the printer have any paper in it
    • Is there a problem with the printer
      • Not switched on
      • Paper jam
      • Out of toner or ink
    • DON'T! print it ten more times hoping that shear force of numbers will make the system to print your file.

  • The colour printers are slower than the black & white laser printers and cost more to run.
  • Please only use the colour printer when you really need colour output.
  • Don't print a web page on the colour printer, unless the colour conveys important information which would be lost in black & white.
  • A nice colour logo or a few highlighted words are not a good reason to use the colour printer.

  • please check there is paper in the printer
    Paper is kept with the photocopyer in B086
  • Please keep the areas around the printer tidy

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