User Printing Information
Note: this URL will be replaced by documentation for a new User Printing Management page on May 12, 2008. A draft of that documentation is currently at http://clc.its.psu.edu/printing/Status/defaultLCT.aspx.
The user printing information page will query the database that controls printing and tell you how many pages and jobs you have printed this semester, as well as if you have agreed to be billed for pages beyond your free pages.
A record created for each user the first time a job is printed by one of the
printers controlled by this mechanism. Those records are archived at the end of
each semester, so if you have not printed during the current semester you will
have no record, but your "Status" and "Billing Flag" will be shown.
The information displayed is:
| Data Label | Explanation |
| Date/Time Added: | The date and time your printing summary record was created. This is when you first printed (or tried to print) during the current semester. |
| Date/Time Changed: | The date and time your printing summary record was last changed. Typically this is when you printed last but could also be when something else changed in your record. |
| Total Jobs: | The total number of print jobs done this semester, including jobs for which credit was given. |
| Total Pages: | The total number of physical pages printed in all jobs this semester (printing on one or both sides counts as one page). It does not include any header pages or pages for which credit has been granted. Take this number, subtract 110, and that is how many pages you have been or will be billed for this semster (if you are a student and have agreed to be billed for printing.) |
| Credits: | The number of jobs for which some number of pages have been credited. |
| Credit Pages: | The total number of pages credited this semester. |
| Prepaid Pages: | For a few special non-student accounts that normally cannot print, pages can be purchased up-front. |
| Page Limit: | The maximum number of pages you may print the rest of the day. A print job must have fewer than the minimum of this and "Job Limit". |
| Job Limit: | The maximum number of pages a job may contain.
You may change this to any number from 10 to 1000 by entering the number
on the
user printing information page below your information where is says "Change
Job Limit", then clicking on the "Change Job Limit" button. Print jobs are accepted by the server only if they have the same or fewer pages than the minimum of your Page Limit and Job Limit. In other words, your job limit may be 100 but if your page limit is 5, then you can not print a job with 6 pages. |
| Daily Limit Increase: | How much your Page Limit will increase each day (up to 1000). If it is 0, then it means you are a student and you have not agreed to be billed for printing. This daily limit/increase prevents accidental printing of many pages. |
| Status: | This is you account status (Student, Employee, etc.) If incorrect, contact the ITS Account Services. Note that "Guest" users cannot print at all. Other types of users have different abilities. Students can print up to 110 pages each semeter without being billed for them. The cost is included in your technology fee. To print more than that, students have to agree to be billed for printing. |
| Billing Flag: | A "Yes" means when you signed the Access Account agreement, you also signed that you agree to pay for printing when billed by the bursar. A "No" means you signed "No" or didn't sign at all. Students will get 110 subsidized pages per semester and cannot print any more than that unless this flag is "yes". You can go to a signature station to agree for print billing if you want to print more than 110 pages. You will be able to print after the next update (daily at 4am or hourly between 9:15am and 11:15pm). |
Changing Your Job Limit
Below the information about your current semester's printing data, there is a text box you can put a nuber in and button you can click on to change your job limit. The allowed range is 10 to 1000. The default is 100. If you set it very low, say 10, don't forget you did that when you go to try to print a job with 11 pages.
Past Semesters' Data
Further down the page there is a button you can click on to see totals for past semesters.
Prior to Spring 2005, we did not keep credits separate in that database, so there will be no information in the Credits and Credit Pages columns, but the total number of page is minus any credits given that semester.