Use your print allowance effectively: find out when you receive
your allowance, how to check your balance, how many pages you can
print and what to do if you expend your allowance.
All students, faculty and staff receive a page allowance, or allocation, to print. This allocation provides 650 single-sided pages for each of the Fall and Spring semesters, and 200 pages for the Summer semester.
Costs for students, faculty, and staff are $0.05 a page printed single-sided or $0.04 a page printed double-sided for black and white printing. Color printing is not available.
Costs for public patrons (not affiliated with UB) are $0.10 a printed page.
Your allowance rolls over from semester to semester (Fall, Spring and Summer). You must use iprint at least once per semester to receive the allocation for that semester.
Your balance does not roll over to the next academic year (Summer to Fall). The remaining allowance in your iprint balance will be deleted prior to the start of the new academic year.
When using the computing sites' Cybrary,
Express
or Assistive
stations, your available quota is displayed in dollars on the
iprint pop-up window. You may also view your available quota from
any of the Print
Release and Pay Stations.
The iprint pop-up window is not available from any
of the following:
To learn the number of pages you may print with your current
balance, see Determine
How Many Pages You Can Print with Your Allowance.
If you have expended your printing allowance for the semester,
you can print using a print/copy card or Campus
Cash. Print/copy cards may be purchased at University Libraries
and can only be used at specially-equipped print/release
stations.
You may share your print allocation. You must print from your account, so your friends should send or give you the documents they want to print.
Do not share your UBITName and password: you alone are responsible for the use of your UBITName.