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Derrek Velazquez (right) shows fellow I&IT student assistant Kita McLean how to print using Pharos. |
The Pharos printing system, installed by I&IT in nearly two dozen locations around campus, has become a popular printing and copying service for students with the number of print jobs increasing rapidly.
The service, which works by students feeding cash to kiosks or by using money from students’ Bronco Cards, provided 165,812 print jobs from Jan. 1 to May 1, 2012. In all of calendar 2011, students used the Pharos printing for 80,810 print jobs.
“This has taken off beyond our wildest expectations,” said Dennis Tilford, Lead, Instructional Technology, I&IT Technical Support, whose unit administers, installs and supports the printers.
One theory for the increase is that professors now place much of their class handout materials, such as syllabi, online. Students still want to print such materials and need to do so in a timely manner.
Students can print from computers near the printers, such as from computer labs or areas like the Library’s second floor where there are groups of computers, or from their own personal Windows or Macintosh laptops (currently in three locations). Testing will begin this summer on printing from mobile tablets such as iPads and Android devices.
Departments or colleges that want to install the Pharos printers pay for the first printer. I&IT staff support the printers with paper and toner (and equipment replacement if needed) funded from the revenue for printing and copying.
The most popular Pharos printing site is in the second floor of the Library where three of the printers provided 94,453 printing jobs that totaled 328,888 pages during the first 4 months of 2012.
Pharos printers are located in the following locations:
College/Division |
Building |
Number of printers |
Agriculture |
2 |
3 |
Agriculture |
45 |
2 & 1 Plotter |
I&IT |
97 |
3 |
I&IT |
98 |
3 |
Collins |
79 |
1 |
Housing |
54 |
1 |
Library |
15 |
7 |
Science |
8 |
2 |
CEIS |
5 |
1 |
The copiers are located in the Building 97 Campus Center Lab, the Building 98 Computing Commons Lab run by I&IT on the fifth floor classroom side and the Library on the second and third floor.
Another feature of the Pharos system has been the desktop reservation application that allows students to be notified via a video screen of an available open computer in Learning Center and Productivity Center in the Library. This service is currently on the 2nd Floor of the Library.
For further information on the Pharos printers, see Pharos.
| Sept 20, 2011 | July 5, 2011 | June 14, 2011 |
| May 17 2011 | April 22 2011 | April 8 2011 |
| February 16 2011 | February 4 2011 | April 5 2012 |
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This page was last updated on May 2, 2012.
