Student Co-Op Printing


August 22, 2007


Dear Students:


As a student at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, you are eligible to join the Law School Printing Co-op. The Co-Op was established last year to provide law students with basic printing services at greatly reduced per page rates. In an effort to reduce printing costs for students, the law school installed three high speed printers into the law library for the use of Co-Op members. Prior to the Co-Op, law students had to pay six cents per page to print University Print Services printers in the law library. Co-Op printing can be as low as two cents per page.


If you join the Co-Op as a full year member, you may print up to 3000 pages of law school work and other personal printing on the designated printers. Last year 284 students participated in the Co-Op. This subscription level covered the out-of-pocket operating expenses of the Co-Op (paper and toner) and provided enough money to replace one of the Co-Op printers with a new high performance printer.  Our plan is to replace one Co-Op printer each year in order to insure that Co-Op printers are fast, up-to-date and reliable.
You may subscribe to the Co-Op in one of two ways.

  • Pay $40 per for a semester membership. A one semester subscription allows you to print up to 1500 pages during the semester (2.67 cents per page). This page allocation cannot be carried over to a subsequent semester.
  • Pay $60 for an academic year membership. The academic year subscription allows you to print up to 3000 pages at any time during the school year (2 cents per page).

Co-Op members may purchase addition pages if their printing needs exceed the semester or academic year page allocation limits. Additional pages are sold at three cents per page in 500 page increments: 500 pages for $15, 1000 pages for $30, 1500 pages for $45, etc.).  Co-Op printing purchases are non-refundable and cannot be sold or shared.


Co-Op Rules


The success of the Co-Op depends upon all participants not abusing their printing privileges. Consequently, Co-Op members must abide by the rules listed below. In this regard, please be aware that the Help Desk uses software to monitor printing. The violation of these rules may result in Co-Op privileges being suspended.  If printing privileges are suspended, appropriate arrangements to reinstate them may be made with Gary Buckway in room 459C JRCB. Please keep in mind the following Co-Op rules:

  • Co-Op members may not allow others to print using their username, nor may members print for non-members.
  • Printing privileges may not be shared with others or sold to others.
  • Co-Op members should print their Westlaw or Lexis research on the Westlaw and Lexis printers in the library. Printing on the Westlaw and Lexis printers is free of charge and will not count against Co-Op page allocations. Westlaw and Lexis research printed on Co-Op printer will be charged against your page allocation.
  • Only Co-Op members will be allowed to purchase additional pages at $.03 per page for printing needs that exceed their initial page allocations. Students who opt for the semester printing option will only be members of the Co-Op during the designated semester.
  • DO NOT LOAD PAPER IN OR TRY TO CLEAR JAMS, OR OTHERWISE TRY TO SERVICE ANY OF THE PRINTERS YOURSELF, you could damage the equipment.  CONTACT THE HELP DESK LOCATED AT 459 JRCB, OR CALL THEM AT 422-3884 AND THEY WILL PROMPTLY TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM, Monday-Friday 8am- 5pm.

FAQs concerning the Co-Op:


  • Where Do I Sign Up? Accounting Office, 367 JRCB
  • Will I Save Money? Assuming you sign up for the full academic year, you will save money if over the cost of printing through University Print Services you print at least 860 pages of material. The average Co-Op member last year combining one semester and academic year subscription printed over 2400 pages. At six cents per page, this level of printing using University Print Serves would have cost about $124.

 

  • What if printer server goes down? Please call the HelpDesk if the print server goes down during normal working hours and they will immediately address the problem. If your printing need is urgent, you may go to the HelpDesk to print. HelpDesk personal are automatically paged by the network if the printer server goes down after hours. In that case, HelpDesk personnel will immediately address the problem and should have the printer server running within a couple of hours.
  • What if the printer I normally print to is broken, out of paper, or otherwise out of order?  Immediately call the Help Desk at 422-3884 during normal working hours, if we are not in leave a message and print to one of the other Co-Op printers.  There are two Co-Op printers on the third floor of the library and one on the first floor of the library.

 

  • Should I install iPrint if I have Windows Vista?
    NO!

We look forward to working with you this year to make the Co-Op a continuing success.

Sincerely,
Gary Buckway
Information Technology Manager



Co-Op installation Instructions (Windows XP only)

1. Install I-Print- Install this first, after installing the printers you will be asked for a user name and password, this is NOT your groupwise password, for 1L's the user name is your Net ID and the password is your birthday (mmddyy), for 2L's and 3L's it is the password you used last year. If you have any password questions contact us at the help desk.

2. Install the printers by clicking on the links below each corresponds to a different Co-Op printer.

Co-Op Printers

- 1st Floor Room 160, the big HP9000 next to the Pharos printer.
- 3rd Floor Room 380, near the bathrooms and Digital Bulletin Board HP9000.
- 3rd Floor Room 380, near the Reference Desk HP9000
  
For Windows Vista use the directions found using the link in the FAQ.