Print accounting and how to pay

How printing accounting works

The printing and plotting costs are charged daily to the user's account.

Users with zero or negative print credit are unable to print.

How to add print credit

The "credit" command will show your current paper credit status (updated once a day in the morning!).

As of now and this for administrative overhead reasons, paper credit can be replenished as follows:

ULB and VUB students
can replenish their credit through the payable services form (min EUR 5.00).
See also the announcement on printing from the VUB public computerrooms
Refunding of a printcredit is only possible if the remaining credit has entirely been payed from a personal bank account and only for amounts above EUR 5.00

ULB staff
can replenish their credit by "bon vert", for a minimum amount of EUR 15.00, specifying the (list of) loginname(s) to credit and respective amounts. This bon vert has to be addressed to (and the original sent to):
ULB - Centre de Calcul - CP 197

E-mail : Centre.de.Calcul@ulb.ac.be
Phone: 02/650.37.12
VUB staff
can replenish their printcredit from a centralized print-reserve. This year each department (= "vakgroep", not "onderzoeksgroep") has a maximum credit  from this reserve of EUR 125.00 ; requests have to be addressed by the head of the department to the Computing Centre by fax (02/6503740) or by emailing to Rekencentrum@vub.ac.be, clearly indicating
1) the loginname of the user requiring the printcredit ,
2) the department and
3) the amount of printcredit wanted.

Additional credit: can be obtained through an internal payment order ("interne betalingsopdracht" - cannot be payed through Raptools !!), minimum amount of EUR 15.00, to be sent to the Computing Centre. Please specify 1) the loginname(s) of the user(s) requiring the printcredit and 2) the amount wanted for each user.
VUB - Rekencentrum

E-mail : Rekencentrum@vub.ac.be
Phone: 02/650.37.12

Printer pricing

Printername paper format paper/print quality Price per page

computerrooms
in building B & K
(Etterbeek)

A4

normal

Details (IR, HW)

colour (2) A4 good EUR 0.50
slides (2) colour transparencies good EUR 0.75

Plotter pricing (1)

printername  ARCH E
ISO A0 ISO A1
ISO A2
ISO A3
ISO A4
Other formats/meter
Comments
Size (h x w)
121.9 x 91.4 cm
118.9 x 84.1 cm 84.1 x 59.4 cm
59.4 x 42.0 cm
42.0 x 29.7 cm
29.7 x 21.0 cm
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draft 4.10 € 4.00 € 2.00 € 1.40 €
0.60 €
0.30 €
3,40 €
width 914 mm, normal paper, normal quality
heavy 6,10 € 6,00 € 3.00 € 2.10 €
1.50 €
1.10 €
5.00 €
width 914 mm, thicker paper, very good quality
glossy 17.10 € 16,70 € 8.30 € 5.90 €
4.20 €
2.90 €
14.00 €
width 914 mm, glossy photo paper, excellent quality
 



       
Size (h x w) 121.9 x 106.7 cm 118.9 x 106.7 cm -
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draftx 4.40 € 4.30 € N/A N/A
N/A
N/A
3,60 €
width 1067 mm, normal paper, normal quality
heavyx 6.70 € 6.50 € N/A N/A
N/A
N/A
5.50 €
width 1067 mm, thicker paper, very good quality
glossyx 21,30 € 20,80 € N/A N/A
N/A
N/A
17.50 €
width 1067 mm, glossy photo paper, excellent quality

(1) Prices valid as of March 21st 2011 and subject to change without prior notice.

(1) You can  use the command 'plotter' to the Computing Centre's machines to send a file to the plotter, or else use Webplot. See also our How to Plot Guide.

(2) Beside the lpr command on the Computing Centre's machines, you can also use Webplot to send a postscript file to this printer.


VUB/ULB Computing Centre,
Created: 2 August 1999, Modified: 22 March 2011
Email: User Support Group.