Printing your work Find out how to print from: computers on campus, your own laptop, mobile device, or home computer. 1 See essential information about the university s networked printers. 2 Follow the instructions to send documents to the printer queues from a university computer your laptop/ desktop computer your smart phone / tablet your email account 3 Find out how to print the documents in your queue. Select Printing your work at the bottom of any page, to return here. The mobile printing service is available at https://print.brighton.ac.uk/myprintcenter Document last updated by GD/JMS on 07 Oct 2017 This document and other Information Services documents are held on our website: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is
University of Brighton Information Services Before you start About the networked printing service Each library and open access computer suite has a range of black & white (mono) and colour A3 and A4 print/copy/scan devices. You can send documents to be printed on these devices from: university computers in libraries and computer rooms on campus your own computer your mobile phone or tablet (Apple or Android) your email account You don t have to be on campus to send documents to the printing service. The two stages of printing: 1 Send (or upload) your document to the printer queue 2 Visit the printer, within 24 hours, and print any documents waiting in your queue Don t wait too long. Documents will wait in your print queue for 24 hours and then they will be deleted from the queue. Paying for printing Before you can use the university s printers you must add credit to your UniCard account. See unicard.brighton.ac.uk to find out more about using your UniCard and adding credit to your UniCard Online Account. Page 2 Printing your work
Printing your work Checklist before printing To avoid wasting paper, ink and your money, you should: save any changes you have made make sure you are happy with the contents, use the spell checker and check the layout use File/Print Preview to be sure. check you have selected the correct paper size choose the right type of printer, colour or mono (colour printing can be five times the cost of black and white (mono) printing) save money by printing double-sided - mono double-sided is just 4p per sheet of paper If you are ready to print, find out how Follow the instructions for sending your documents to the networked printers from: a university computer your laptop/ desktop computer your smart phone / tablet your email account Printing your work Page 3
University of Brighton Information Services Printing your document from a university computer If you are using a university computer in a library or student computer room, first use the checklist above to make sure you are ready and then select Print from the application you are using. There will be two queues for the university s networked printers: The mono (black & white) print queue is Konica_B&W The colour print queue is Konica_Colour Remember mono (black & white) printing is cheaper than colour. Double-sided printing is cheaper than single-sided printing When you have sent your document(s) to the printer queue, you should visit your nearest print/copy/scan machine within 24 hours and print any documents waiting in your queue. See Printing documents in your queue. Page 4 Printing your work
Printing your work Printing from your laptop or desktop computer When you are ready to print a document, you should go to https://print.brighton.ac.uk/myprintcenter and log in with your university username and Jms2 ********* password, for example: Your Print Centre Job List will appear on your screen (as shown on the next page.) From here you should, 3 Press the Upload button to select the document or picture you wish to print. 4 Press the Refresh button to see any documents or files you have uploaded. 5 Check the printing cost of your document (shown on the right) 6 Check how much credit you have available for printing and copying in your UniCard account. 7 Make sure your document is selected and then choose your printing options using the menus in the bottom right corner of the screen: You can print in full colour or black and white (cheaper) You can print single sided or double-sided (cheaper) You can choose to print more than one page of your document on each side of paper. The default is one, but to save money you could print two pages on each side of paper You can choose how many copies to print of your document/image. Select the + button to increase the number of copies 8 Log out from the Print Centre using the Welcome pull down menu on the top right of your screen Your document will now wait in your queue for up to 24 hours. Visit your nearest print/copy/scan machine and see instructions in Printing documents in your queue. Printing your work Page 5
University of Brighton Information Services 1 Use Upload to find and upload your documents 7 Visit your nearest print/copy/scan machine within 24 hours - see instructions in Printing documents in your queue 6 Logout from the Print Centre 2 Select Refresh to see your document(s) listed 3 Check the cost of printing your documents 4 Check how much credit you have available for printing and copying in your UniCard account (this account needs topping up!) 5 Select your printing options Save money by printing doublesided. If you are working on a draft you can also print 2 sides per page to save even more! Page 6 Printing your work
Printing your work Printing from your smart phone or tablet You can print from an Apple ios, or Android mobile device. Windows mobile is not currently supported by the Pharos Print system. To print from your smart phone or tablet you must install the Pharos Print app. This will allow you to upload any images or documents from your mobile device to the printer queues. You can then visit any student computer room or library on campus to print your files. 2.3.1 Installing the Pharos Print app 1 Find and download the Pharos Mobile App from either Apple or Google or use the links below: Apple Store Pharos Print app Google Play Store Pharos Print App 2 The first time you launch the app enter The server Address: Mobileprint.brighton.ac.uk The port Number: 443 3 When the logon prompt appears, enter your university username (for example abc1) and your password The My Prints screen will appear and you will be ready to upload your document(s) to the printer queue. The image below show the My Prints screen on an Android smart phone. Note: You can access the Print app either via the university eduroam wireless network or your G4 mobile phone network. Now follow the instructions for either Android, or Apple ios devices abc1 ********** Printing your work Page 7
University of Brighton Information Services 2.3.2 Uploading your documents to the print queue (Android) 1 Use Upload to find and upload your documents 2 Select Refresh to see your document(s) listed 3 Check the cost of printing your documents 4 Select your document and then choose printing options here 1 Your document will wait in your queue for up to 24 hours. Visit your nearest print/copy/scan machine and see instructions in Printing documents in your queue Save money by printing doublesided without colour. If you are working on a draft you can also print 2 sides per page to save even more! Page 8 Printing your work
Printing your work 2.3.3 Sending your documents to the print queue (Apple ios) 1 You should already have opened the Pharos Print app and entered server details and your university credentials as described in section 2.3.1 2 Open the document you wish to print, using its originating app. For example, if it is a Word document, open your Word app 3 Select Print from the appropriate menu. For example, with MS Word, 4 From the File menu select Print 5 Select Open in Another App 6 Scroll to find Copy to Pharos Print 7 Select your printing options using the following icons single-sided or double-sided (cheaper) black & white (cheaper) or colour 1 page per sheet or 2 pages per sheet number of copies 8 Check the cost and tap Apply changes 9 Your document will wait in your queue for up to 24 hours. Visit your nearest print/copy/scan machine and see instructions in Printing documents in your queue Printing your work Page 9
University of Brighton Information Services Printing via Your Email Account Your university email account is automatically registered to use the university s printers. You can email a document to the Mobile Print service directly for printing. Send your file as an attachment to one of following email addresses: bwprint@brighton.ac.uk (Black & White (mono) print queue) colourprint@brighton.ac.uk (Colour print queue) You will receive an email from Mobile Print acknowledging the submitted print jobs with instructions on how to release them. Visit any university Computer Room or Library to release your documents from the Print/Copy/Scan machines, using your UniCard see Printing documents in your queue Notes: The maximum number of documents you can send with one message is 10. The maximum size that can be sent in one message is 25 Megabytes The content of the message will not be printed, only the attached documents. 2.4.1 Using a different email address You can send your documents to be printed from your own personal email address, but you must register it with the university s print management system. If you send a document to be printed from an unregistered email account, you will receive an email response with instructions on how to register. Page 10 Printing your work
Printing your work Printing documents in your queue The instructions above explain how to send your documents to the networked printer queues. Once you have sent your document to a queue you have 24 hours to go to one of the university s Print/Copy/Scan machines and release your document to the printers. After 24 hours your document will be removed from the print queue. To release your document(s) for printing 1 Go to one of the Print/Copy/Scan machines on campus (you will find them in open access computer rooms and libraries). 2 To login to the printer queue you can either: Present your UniCard to the card reader on the front of the machine OR Press the login button on the touch screen and login with your university username and password 3 Press Print to find and print your documents Printing your work Page 11
University of Brighton Information Services Further help and information The web address for the mobile printing service is https://print.brighton.ac.uk/myprintcenter You can visit this site to upload documents to your printer queue from off campus and from your mobile devices. Support contacts: Servicedesk@brighton.ac.uk To log problems issues and faults Printing-support@brighton.ac.uk To request refunds. http://unicard.brighton.ac.uk Visit the UniCard web pages for further information. Supported Web Browsers IE 10 or later Mozilla Firefox 4.1 or later Google Chrome 4.6 or later Apple Safari 9.0 Supported Email Clients Apple Mail (for iphone and ipad). ios 4-7 Android versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.x Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 Google's Gmail Microsoft Hotmail Yahoo Page 12 Printing your work