Printing from a PC

Barret Library features free printing for student, faculty, and staff.  All students are given 1000 pages of free printing per year, starting approximately August 15th every year and going through approximately August 14th the following year. The 1000 free pages are in the form of an $100 credit, and as you attempt to print anything in the labs, you will see that amount slowly decrease.

Any pages printed in excess of the 1000 free pages costs $0.10 per page. Any outstanding bills for printing will be put the student′s account at the end of 1st term, near the end of 2nd semester, and at the end of the year-long print period. (Graduating seniors will be billed for any excess pages before graduation.)

When you attempt to print any document in any of the Rhodes College computer labs, a pop-up window will notify you of the number of pages you are trying to print and give you the option to continue printing or stop the print job.

If you elect to continue the print job, the number of pages will be deducted from your remaining free pages or, if you are out of free pages, will be applied to your printing bill.

A short delay may be experienced between clicking the Print button in an application and seeing the print pop-up window. Wait for it before heading to the printer.

NOTE: If from the pop-up window you print the job, there are no refunds or credits available. If more pages are printed than you thought would be printed (which often happens with printing web pages) or if the pages are blank because the printer is out of toner, you will still be charged for the pages.

If the document you are printing is over 100 pages, you will need to split your print job into sections.  PCOUNTER will only handle jobs of 100 pages or less.  Larger jobs will appear to have been sent to the printer, but they will not print (and the amount will not be deducted from your allocation).

Color printing is also available from selected printers in Barret Library: the ones in the Information Desk area, Assistive Technology (scanning room), Information Commons, and Library Instruction Room 128.  When you go to print, select the printer labeled “Color_Printer_127 on PCOUNTER” or “\\PCOUNTER\ Color_Printer_127.”  NOTE: These color prints cost 25¢ per page and are charged against the $100 credit allocated annually (or charged to your student account if you go over your credit amount).  Even if you are printing black-and-white on the color printer, the charge will be 25¢ per page.

Printing from Your Laptop

You cannot use your personal computer to print in Barret Library or the Middle Ground.

If you would like to print a document, copy the document to your student folder on the network fileserver, log into a computer in the library, access the document via the network, and print from the library computer.

This process will allow you to take advantage of your allotment of free printing pages while still working on the document on your laptop.