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CIT uses a product called Pharos Uniprint® to enable printing in the computer lab. Each lab is equipped with a Print Release Station, a computer with a card swipe. Once a user swipes her/his OCID card, the print jobs are shown and can be released. Funds are then decremented from, first, the user's Free Print Account (300 pages per semester for students (reset each semester with no carryover); as needed for faculty and staff), then, when that has been depleted, from the user's ObieDollar account.

To print in the computer labs on Macintosh and Windows computers:

1. Select Print from the File menu in the application you are using. The Print dialog box will appear. Make sure the appropriate print queue is selected (for the printer you wish to print from). All the lab computers are configured to print to the printer in that particular lab. (If you find this to not be the case, please send a message to cit@oberlin.edu).
2. When printing from the Mudd Academic Commons and Mudd A-level Macintosh computers, you may choose the CIT_052_Color_HP4600 printer if you desire to print in color. CIT will not reimburse users for documents unintentionally printer to the color printer. Color printing is not yet available from the Windows computers in those locations.
3. Click the Print button and the print system Popup window will appear.
4. Enter a username or login ID. Remember what you type so you can find your print job later at the Print Release Station. A password is not required, but it does protect your print job from being released by someone else.
5. Go to the Print Release Station located near the printer and swipe your OCID or Guest Card to view your print jobs.
6. Click on the tab labeled with the first letter of the username you provided. Your printout should appear in the list. Highlight the print job you wish to release, click on the Print button at the bottom of the screen, and retrieve your printout from the lab printer.
7. If your print job does not come out of the printer, is smudged, mangles, or otherwise unreadable, please tell a lab consultant (located in Mudd 052) immediately.

Students in Residence Halls may wish to install a lab printer on their personal computers, print to that printer, and pick up the printout later in that lab. For Windows users, the installation is automatic, simply by clicking on the desired printer from the list on the CIT website at: http://pharos.oberlin.edu/uniprint/

Macintosh users need to download the Pharos Uniprint popup client and the printer configuration tool from the CIT Standard Software web page at: http://www.oberlin.edu/cit/downloads/macosx.html

NOTE: CIT will not reimburse users for lost/unreadable printouts costing less than $1.00. Instead, Free Print quota levels have been increased to account for such losses.

If you need to have additional print funds made available, click here for for details.