Subject: RCS Printing Charges and Allocations

Description

Printing Costs

The charge per page varies according to the type of printer Note that you are not charged for header sheets. The per job charge imposed on printers that use header pages is intended to partially recover the cost of these pages. 

 Black & White Printing
       one-sided (self service)     6 cents/page + 2 cents/job
       one-sided (VCLW)             5 cents/page + 2 cents/job
       two-sided (VCLW)             8 cents/sheet + 2 cents/job
       one-sided B-size (VCBLW)     5 cents/page + 2 cents/job
       two-sided B-size (VCBLW)     8 cents/sheet + 2 cents/job
       labels (VCLBL30)             25 cents/page + 10 cents/job
 Color Printing*
       Phaser 350, 850  (paper)    40 cents/page + 20 cents/job
       Phaser 200i (paper)         50 cents/page + 20 cents/job
       Phaser 200i (transparency)  $1/page + 20 cents/job
       Phaser 750  (paper)         50 cents/page + 20 cents/job
       Phaser 750  (transparency)  $1/page + 20 cents/job
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 * The per-job charge does not apply to self-service color printers,
   which do not have header pages.  
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At the start of each fall and spring semester, each user receives a free allocation of $12.50 for black & white printing. (The allocation is $6.25 for each summer session.) This allocation is reset at the beginning of each new semester; any "money" you do not spend on printing is not carried over to the next semester. After this allocation is used up, charges are added to your (or your department's) Bursar bill from Rensselaer.

Note that charges for color printing are always charged to your Bursar bill.

You can use your RCS account to print from UNIX, Macs, or PCs networked on campus. You will need to provide your RCS userid and password on PCs and Macs before you can print.

Checking Your Printing Charges

You can find information on your RCS account and resource usage by using a web-based tool. Note that you will be asked to supply your RCS userID and password.

On RCS UNIX systems, you can also use the pagestatus program to check your free page allocation and usage. At a UNIX prompt, just enter the command: pagestatus

Note that your page allocation is reset after the first time you print each semester.

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