Faculty and Staff at York University have access to a variety of printing services.
Featured Services
Overview:
Unified Print Management service provides a unified print management service platform to monitor and control print and copy transactions at the University. The service heavily relies on the existing central infrastructure (server, database, storage, network and cost recovery) for a highly available, secure and resilient service.
**Please note only faculty and staff at York University who have been onboarded to the Unified Print Management service are eligible to use this service. Please confirm with your local IT support.
Core Service:
- Print Management: Monitor and control print transactions to typical network print devices
- Copy Management: Monitor and control copy transactions to typical photocopy devices
- Month end transaction reports: Detailed month end transaction reports for each operational unit
- Secure Print and Copy: Requires Passport York service authentication in order to print and/or copy
Optional Service:
- WebPrint: Print anywhere, anytime by uploading documents from a web browser using WebPrint.
How do I print?
Administrative departments interested to onboard the Unified Print Management service should contact UIT Client Services at askit@yorku.ca.
Overview of WebPrint:
WebPrint allows you to print to publicly-accessible campus printers from your laptop or desktop computer:
- wirelessly on-campus using AirYorkPlus or
- with a wired Internet connection on-campus
How do I print?
- Prior to printing, check your YU- Card account balance to ensure your account has sufficient funds / credits to cover the cost of printing.
- Students can now also use Mobile Credentials with pay as you go printing on supported devices. Instructions for queuing and printing are posted next to the printing stations.
- Browser requirements: Google Chrome (109 and later), Apple Safari (14 and later), Microsoft Edge (109 and later), and Mozilla Firefox (82 and later)
Instructions for using WebPrint
- Login to WebPrint with your Passport York account
- Click on Submit a job
- Choose the appropriate printer from the list
- Click on Print Options and Accounts Selection
- Type in the number of copies of the print job then click on Upload & Complete
- Then click on Browse to upload the file you want to print
- Click Upload & Complete
- After which you will be to release the print job from the printer. There will be information available at the release stations on how to release the print jobs.
Service Description:
WebPrint has 6 different sections:
- Summary: This section contains
- Username
- Balance (i.e. PaperCut balance)
- Blackboard balance amount
- Total number of print jobs released
- Total number of pages released
- Graphical representation of the balance history
- Rates: This section displays the rates for printing at all the libraries and labs at York
- Transaction history: The transactions history of printing can be found under this section
- Recent print jobs: The history of recent print jobs can be found under this section
- Jobs Pending Release: The pending print jobs that have not been released yet can be found under this section
- WebPrint: Here you can submit a print job and see the status of active print jobs
Overview:
You are able to use York's printing services if you have if you have a Guest YU card with available funds on it.
How do I print?
- Swipe the Guest YU-card; there will be a prompt with a message stating that the card is not registered to any account, and it will ask whether or not the card needs to be registered under a Passport York account - click Yes
- On the following screen, type the Passport York login credentials
- From then on, both cards (the primary YU-card and the guest card) are now registered under the Passport York username. Both balances will be combined together, and the total balance will be available in the middle of the screen after logging in at the Balance field
Overview:
During the installation of drivers on either a OS X or Linux workstation you may be prompted to select the appropriate driver for the printer. Some drivers may already be available in the standard software included during the installation of the operating system. If the driver is NOT present it will be necessary to download the driver from the vendor'ssupport page. In most cases you will only need to download the driver and not any support utilities. Below are a series of links to the printers used in UIT.
How to access it?
www.hp.com/ca
1. From the main page select "Download drivers" under the "Support" heading.
2. Once in the "Drivers & Downloads" page enter the model of the printer needed.
3. Select the OS version and download the appropriate driver .
http://www.ricoh-usa.com/downloads/downloads.aspx?utm_id=4&d=ds
1. Once in the "Manuals, Drivers, Software and Brochures Downloads" page you can specify the printer model (ensure that the "Drivers/Software" checkbox is checked)
2. Select the appropriate OS/version.
http://www.support.xerox.com/support/enus.html
1. Enter the printer model in the "Search" dialog box.
Frequently Asked Questions
My York Computer FAQs
Computer Labs FAQs
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