Printers in Department of Zoology and the Biodiversity Research Centre
We share a print and copy system with the Department of Botany, providing access to copiers and printers in the Biological Sciences and Biodiversity Research Centre buildings. CWL credentials are used for authentication, and print/copy jobs can be charged to specific project, grant and course worktags.
Costs
- 7 cents for each black/white printout (print or copy)
- 12 cents for each color printout (print or copy)
- Free for scan-to-email on any Ricoh copiers
Access and Authentication
Print and Copy authentication uses your CWL, and billed to a lab, course, grant, project or other worktag.
In order to print or copy, you must be authorized to bill to at least one worktag.
Requests for authorization can be sent to [zoology.support@ubc.ca], and include the CWL ID and the account to be billed.
- Faculty
- send the request directly
- Staff (Teaching and Administration)
- please ask your direct supervisor to send the request
- Graduate students
- billing to your lab: please ask your PI to send the request
- billing to a course: please ask the instructor to send the request
| Physical Location | Printer Name | Printer Model | Colour | Double-sided capable |
Cost per page (cents) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRC 125 | clearcut-brcfirstfloor (Windows) and clearcut_BRC1stFloor (Mac) | HP Laserjet M605 | No | Yes | 7 |
| BRC 125 | slick-brcfirstfloorcolour (Windows) and slick_BRC1stFloorColour (Mac) | Ricoh C830DN | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| BRC 125 | Poster | HP Designjet Z6 44in | Yes | N/A | Visit link |
| BRC 229 | biodiversityricoh (Windows) and Ricoh_Biodiversity_229 (Mac) | Ricoh IM C6000 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| BRC 329 | goat-brcthirdfloor (Windows) and goat_BRC3rdFloor (Mac) | HP Laserjet M605 | No | Yes | 7 |
| BRC 6th Floor Kitchenette | fungus-brcsecondfloor (Windows) and fungus_BRC2ndFloor (Mac) | HP Laserjet M605 | No | Yes | 7 |
| BioSci 2nd Floor (BioSci 2332) | bioscisouthwing (Windows) and Ricoh_Biosci_South_Wing (Mac) | Ricoh IM C6000 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| BioSci 3rd Floor | rainbow-bioscithirdfloor (Windows) and rainbow_BioSci3rdFloor (Mac) | HP Laserjet M551 | Yes | Yes | 12 |
| BioSci 4th Floor | somewhere-bioscifourthfloor (Windows) and somewhere_BioSci4thFloor (Mac) | HP Laserjet M605 | No | Yes | 7 |
| Biology Office (BioSci 1103) | bioloffice (Windows) and Ricoh_bioloffice (Mac) | Ricoh MP C6010 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| BioSci 3rd Floor (BioSci 3334) | biosci3 (Windows) and Ricoh_biosci3 (Mac) | Ricoh MP C6010 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| BioSci 4th Floor (BioSci 4200) | printedwardisland | HP Laserjet E55040 | Yes | Yes | 7 |
| Virtual secure print | universal-hold-release (Windows) and Ricoh_SecurePrint (Mac) | for botanymailroom, bioscisouthwing, biodiversityricoh229 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
| Virtual secure print | secureprint-6010 (Windows) and Ricoh_secureprint_6010 (Mac) | for bioloffice, biosci3 | Yes | Yes | 7 or 12 |
Virtual secure print: tap your UBC card to release print at the copiers.
Install PaperCut client and printers
There is some software setup needed. To enable relatively simple setup and universal access (wired and wireless networks, Windows, Mac and Linux) we are using a software called PaperCut-MF (for Windows) or PCClient (for Mac) for authentication and accounting. Setup is a matter of these steps
1. Download PaperCut client for account access and accounting
2. Download the PaperCut Print Deploy Client to install the printers/copiers
Follow the installation guide here. Your CWL credential is needed for authentication to be able to print to the Botany Zoology Print & Copy System.
Physical access to all printers is trivial except for the 1 printer slick in BRC 125. Please email Katie Beall at katie.beall@ubc.ca to have your UBC Card tweaked to open that door.
Known Print Issues (for Windows users only)
Automatic stapling (and sometimes double-sided printing) is not available when you install the printers from the PaperCut Print Deploy Client. The solution is to manually install the printers by following the steps here.
Email your poster printing request to zoology.support@ubc.ca.
We'll let you know when posters are ready for pick up in BRC Grad Lab Room125. If you don't have card access, please visit Room123 or Room121.
Poster pricing
The following prices are for 1.3m2 or less paper used. If you print a poster larger than this, you will be charged based on the equivalent multiple of 1.3m2 that can contain your poster.
| Paper | Plastic | |
| Fee | $15 | $22 |
Important things to note about poster printing
- To print a poster, you must be a member of the Department of Zoology, or affiliated with the Biodiversity Research Center.
- Please submit your poster to us in PDF format. Powerpoint is acceptable for poster design, but powerpoint files tend to be inconsistent from one computer to the next.
- Posters print from a 42" (106.68cm) roll of either traditional paper, or matte plastic.
- Plastic is more robust to rough handling and well suited to travel, but posters printed on this media tend to fade faster. Plastic costs $7 more per poster than paper.
- If one of your poster's dimensions is exactly 42", it will be ready to use as soon as it leaves the printer, otherwise, you will have to cut your poster after it has been printed, and paper will be wasted. We can resize one of your dimensions at print-time to save you paper and time.
Lead time
- Submit your poster at least one full business day ahead of when you need it.
- If you will be submitting multiple posters, we will need more than one full business day's notice to print them. If you plan to submit a batch of posters, whether for a class, poster session or other reasons, let us know well in advance how many posters you plan to print, and when you need them by. We will let you know how many days lead-time will be required for printing.
- Last-minute prints: If one of us is available to do the printing setup, if the printer is not broken and we are not out of any needed supplies, and if you are not part of a big crowd headed for a conference, then it can take as few as 15 minutes to print a poster. But because of all the if's, at least a day in advance works best. If you know you will need a poster printed on short notice, please talk to us well in advance, so we can schedule an appropriate last-minute print time.