Print Quotas
About your printer account balance
Your print balance is the number of printer pages remaining in your account. If your balance is 17, for example, you can print 17 pages.
A page means one physical sheet of paper.
Your print balance applies ONLY to printers located in 1127 Engineering Hall and 1093 Fiedler Hall.
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Your print balance applies ONLY to these laser printers:
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When you print to one of these printers, our software first counts the number of pages in your request, and then looks at your print balance. If your print balance is large enough to print all the pages, your print request will be accepted and your job will be printed. If your print balance is insufficient, your print request will be refused.
Your print balance is debited by one for each physical page you print, whether you print on one side or both sides of a page. If you print a 10-page document single-sided, your balance decreases by 10. Printing the same 10-page document double-sided (on five physical pages) would decrease your balance by five.
Your print balance will not be affected when you print to any other printer, plotter or graphics output device. It applies only to the specific printers listed above.
How to check your current print balance
Rest your mouse cursor on the dollar sign ($) symbol 
in the notification area of the task bar. In about one second, a small text balloon will appear that shows your print balance. If you prefer, you may double-click on the dollar sign symbol to display your print balance in a large message window centered in the screen.
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| There is a shortcut on the desktop of the lab computers to check the balance or log in here. |
How your print balance is updated every week
Every Friday at about 6 a.m. we add 30 free pages to your print balance. If your old print balance was seven pages, your new print balance would be 37 pages.
Your print balance also has a maximum limit of 150 pages. If your old print balance was 130 pages, your new print balance would be 150 (not 160) after the update.
New students are given 30 pages when their account is created. They will then receive the normal 30 pages on every Friday morning.
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NOTES:
- The maximum print balance was increased from 60 to 80 on Jan. 19, 2007, and was increased to 100 pages on June 13, 2012. It was increased to 150 pages on May 15, 2015.
- The weekly print balance update amount was increased from 25 to 30 pages on June 13, 2012.
What if you don't have enough copies?
If you don't have enough copies:
- If you can defer your printing until after the next free update on Friday morning, your new print balance may be enough to let you print what you need.
- If a PDF would work for you instead of printing on paper, you can select Adobe PDF as the target printer and "print" to it. The pages that would have been printed are instead turned into a Portable Document Format (.pdf) file. And of course, this "printing" is not charged against your account balance.
You also have printing options in other places.
- Kansas State University provides a limited amount of free printing to every student on printers located in its computer labs and in Hale Library. If you exhaust your free copies, you can use funds on a K-State Wildcat Card to purchase additional copies.
- Most departments in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering provide free printing on departmental printers to students in the department. Please check with your department for details.
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What if you have a problem with poor-quality printing or with your account balance?
If you have a problem, please let us know.
- Bad copies? We can credit your account for any poor-quality copies. You will need to physically bring the bad pages to us in 0012 Seaton Hall so we can see what happened.
- Does your account balance seem too low? We will review your account balance transactions with you to resolve any questions.
Please see a CECS staff member in 0012 Seaton Hall.
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If you have a problem please see a CHE staff member in 1005 Durland Hall. |