End-of-Semester Printing Tips

Overview

Tips on using the different types of printers.

If you are printing to a self-service printer, you will find your job at the printer. If you are printing to one of the printers or plotters in the VCC Print Room, output is brought upstairs two to three times per hour to the racks in front of the VCC Help Desk.
Please do not go down to the Print Room to pick up your output, as you will not be allowed to pick up your printouts. All that you will accomplish is to distract the Operators who are busy running the printers.

Because it is the end of the semester, hundreds of people may be plotting simultaneously. Therefore, you may have to wait several hours before your job prints. Please allow this extra time and be patient.
Remember to allow an extra two to four hours for clear-film after your plot has finished. The plot needs plenty of time to dry before it is rolled up and placed in the racks! Please allow this extra time and be patient.

If you want to print on paper larger than 8½ × 11, be sure to follow these instructions. You must change the paper size in the printer properties before printing.
The following printers can print on 11 × 17 inch (tabloid) paper:
- VCSOUTB (one-sided, b&w) — 20 cents/sheet + 10 cents/job
- VCSOUTB (two-sided, b&w) — 30 cents/sheet + 10 cents/job
- VCBLW (one-sided, b&w) — 20 cents/sheet + 10 cents/job
- VCBLW (two-sided, b&w) — 30 cents/sheet + 10 cents/job
- VCC9000 (one-sided, color) — 20 cents/sheet + 20 cents/job
- VCC9000 (two-sided, color) — 30 cents/sheet + 20 cents/job