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Overhead Transparencies

In the VIU Library and Commons, you can make transparencies from computer files (e.g. Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, digital image files, Internet web pages) by opening the files on a Productivity or Media station and printing to the black & white or colour printers.

  • Send black & white print jobs just as you would for printing on paper.
  • For colour transparencies, follow these instructions to send your print job to the Library Colour Printer.

When you have sent your file(s) to a printer, go to the Library Service Desk and purchase either black & white or colour transparencies, depending on which printer you printed to. Library staff will help you load the transparencies into the printers and release your print job(s).

Black & white transparencies are $1.00 per sheet and colour transparencies are $1.50 per sheet. You may only use transparencies purchased at the Library Service Desk in Library and Commons printers: they are specially made for our printer models and will not melt inside the printers, as other transparencies might.

Printing in the Library and Malaspina Commons costs 10¢ per page for black & white printing, and $1.00 per page for colour printing. Please note that the total cost of producing a transparency will be the cost of the transparency sheet ($1.00 per sheet for black & white, and $1.50 per sheet for colour) PLUS the cost of printing. For example, one colour transparency will cost $2.50 altogether: $1.50 for the transparency, and $1.00 to print from the colour printer.

Library photocopiers cannot photocopy on transparencies -- the only way to make transparencies in the Library and Commons is to print a computer file to a laser printer.

Alternatively, the VIU Students' Union offers photocopying on transparencies in black & white only. Again, you must buy transparencies from the Students' Union to use in the Students' Union photocopier. Pricing is 42¢ per transparency sheet and 5¢ per page for photocopying.

As well, VIU's Printing and Duplicating Centre can make transparency photocopies for $1.00 per page for black & white and $1.60 per page for colour (prices include both the transparency and copying costs.) For transparencies from computer files, add a minimum $1.50 charge per file (e.g. one colour transparency printed from a computer file would cost $3.10.)