In an effort to reduce the waste and costs associated with excessive printing, and to improve our impact on the environment, Pensacola State College has adopted a new Print Management system named PCounter. Some highlights of the system follow:
- Students will receive 250 free pages at the beginning of each semester to be used either by printing from a computer or by copying
- As an alternative to printing, students may scan to their PirateMail account at no charge
- After the free quota is used, each black and white page will cost .10 to print
- (there will be no color printing available to students at this time)
- Free pages will not rollover to future semesters
- Additional pages will be purchased through a web pay system or at the Cashier’s office
- When printing from a college owned computer in one of the many computer labs available, the student will be shown a popup window with the details of their print job, number of free pages left in their account and/or any account balance available for printing.
- If this is in one of the Academic Computing Centers or libraries, the job will wait in a queue until the student swipes their card or types their Student ID# at whichever device they wish to use
- If this is in a smaller lab with limited printing devices (and no copier), the job will automatically release upon confirmation of the popup window and will print at the available printer
- Students will soon also have the ability to print from personally owned devices (ipad, phone, laptop, etc) to lab printers through a service called EveryonePrint – more details will be forthcoming about this new service they will choose the printer from a web page and send their print job which is charged to their account