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Printing

Printing costs 10¢ per page for black & white printing and is available in all campus computer labs. Colour printing, as well as black & white printing, is available in the Library and Malaspina Commons at a cost of $1.00 per page. You pay for printing by having money in your Payprint account. You can add money to your Payprint account online at https:\\payprint.viu.ca using a credit card, or, if using debit or cash, at the Library Service Desk--please note that amounts added to your account for printing are not refundable.

There is a print release station in every campus computer lab. In the Malaspina Commons, there are two print release stations: one with a black & white printer near the Photo ID office, and another with both a black & white and a colour printer near the Reference Desk (the black & white printer is the smaller printer of the two and sits to the right of the Print Release Station.) In the Library, there are two Print Release Stations with black & white printers: one near the photocopiers on the main floor, and the other across the hall from the Library Instruction Room on the 5th floor, room 508.

Computers in the Malaspina Commons and the Library can print to either black & white or colour printers.

Due to restrictions on the VIU network, students cannot print to campus printers outside the area they are working in. In other words, to print to the Library and Malaspina Commons print stations, you must be using a computer in the Library or Malaspina Commons; to print to a printer in a computer lab, you must be using a computer in that lab.

In the Library and Malaspina Commons, you can print on transparencies or photo-quality paper in either black & white or colour. Transparencies and photo-quality paper (semi-gloss) are available for purchase at the Service Desk. Library staff will help you print your documents on special media.

Double-sided printing can be done on both colour and black & white printers in the Library and Malaspina Commons.

Detailed printing instructions are available in the Library and in PDF format at the bottom of this page.

As an alternative to do-it-yourself printing, VIU's Printing and Duplicating Centre offers printing services.

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