How to use the Self-Serve Printers

Self-serve printing is available to Emily Carr students, staff, faculty, and library guest patrons.

To log in to the system, you need to be connected to campus networks such as at a computer lab or on the Emily Carr Wi-Fi. Printing does not work on Emily Carr Guest Wi-fi, guests must use Library computers to print.

Your ECU OneCard should automatically work at all Self-Serve printers on campus! If your card doesn't work when you tap it on the reader, you may need to link your card to your account. See instructions below:

1. Touch the screen on the printer if the screen is black, or tap your ECU OneCard to the card reader on the right side of the screen.

2. First time users may be prompted to associate (link) their ECU OneCard to their account. You will only do this once and then your card will work at all self-serve ECU printers.

3. Enter your MyEC credentials.

4. Press Associate, and you will get a confirmation that your card is associated with the school's printers. If you get an error, tap your card again and re-enter your correct MyEC credentials.

5. Now you can tap your ECU OneCard on the card reader again to login and use the printer!

• Printing credit can also be added directly to your account at the front desk in the Library - they accept credit, debit, or cash, and are open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
• Printing credit can also be added through Cashier Services located in the Student Payments Office (B2118) in the Student Commons. Open Mon-Fri 9am-4:15pm (closed between 12:30-1:30)

Students can install the ECU Printing software on their personal laptops - there are different installation directions depending on what type of computer you have:

• Mac users - download and install the printing software from the ITS website.
• PC users - download and install the printing software from the ITS website.

Staff and Faculty must follow different procedures to install printing software on their computers:

• Staff & Faculty Mac users - please install printing software using the Software Centre (found in Applications) on your laptop.
• Staff & Faculty PC users - please request to have the software installed by emailing IT Help.

1. Be aware of the size of the pages you want to print and if you will need to scale the pages in the Print menu in order to fit it to the size of the paper you want to print on.

2. Be aware of the orientation of your pages; the orientation in this example is portrait.

3. Be aware of the number of pages in your PDF file.

4. Once you have proofed your PDF file and you are ready to print; go to File at the top of the window and select Print from the pop-up menu.

You are now in the Print window.

5. In the Print window, start by selecting the laser printer you want to print to from the pull-down menu in Printer.

NOTE! If you are printing from a laptop and you notice that the printer you want to print to is not listed, re-install the printers to your laptop.
If this does not work, contact the IT Service Desk.

6. Once you have selected the correct printer, click the Advanced button.

You are now in the Advanced Print Setup window.

7. In the Advanced Print Setup window, select Color Management from the menu on the left side of the window.

8. In the Color Handling pull-down list, select Same As Source (No Color Management) and then click the OK button located at the bottom-right of the window.

You are now in the main Acrobat window.

From the main Acrobat “Print” window, click Page Setup... located at the bottom-left of the window.

9. In the Page Setup window, start by verifying that the correct printer is displayed in the Format For drop-down list. If not, select the printer you want.

10. In the Paper Size drop-down list, you will have the paper sizes that are available from the printer you chose to print to. Choose one of these paper sizes to print on.

NOTE! Do not select Manage Custom Sizes and create a custom paper size.
If you select or create a paper size that is not available in the printer you have chosen to print to, the file will not print.

Once the Page Setup window has been properly set up, click OK to return to the Print window.

11. In the Print window, make sure the printer you want to print to is selected.

12. In Orientation, choose Auto portrait/landscape.

13. Double check that the page size displayed is the paper size you want to print to.

14. If your pages are not a standard US page size, it is safest to select "Shrink oversized pages".

15. Examine the preview window to see if it is in the correct orientation and that your page is properly displayed in the preview.

16. If you have a multi-page document and want to print single-sided, make sure that “Print on both sides of paper” is unchecked. If you want to print on both sides of the paper, make sure that “Print on both sides of paper” is checked and you choose the correct flip direction.

NOTE! Flip direction is based on the edge of the paper you want to turn your printed document on, therefor if you designed a document in portrait, the paper is normally “Flip on long edge”.
If you designed a document in landscape, the paper is normally “Flip on short edge”.
There are always exceptions but this will be the case 99% of the time.

17. In “Pages to Print”, if there is only one page in the document, “All” will be selected. If there are multiple pages in the document, you will have to choose if you want to print “All” pages or only specific pages.

18. You can choose to print multiple copies of your document but it is highly recommended that you print a single copy first and proof it for errors before paying for multiple copies.

19. Are you certain everything is correct? Move on to Step 6!

In order to print your files using the ECU Self-Serve printers, you will be prompted to log in to your account (use your MyEC login) once you have sent your file to a printer. Please remember that you can only print when you are logged on the secure campus Wi-Fi, or when you are using a campus computer!

1. Send your file from your computer to the printer. Choose a printer name based on if you are printing black and white, or colour - once you send your file, you can then print it at any of the Self-Serve laser printers on campus!

2. Wait for a moment - an alert will pop up requesting you log in to your account.

3. Sign in using your MyEC credentials.
*Note: on public computers, we suggest selecting 'Remember: 1 minute'

4. An alert will pop up letting you know that your file has been sent to the campus print system. Time to find a printer!

5. At the printer, log in by tapping your ECU OneCard on the card reader.
* Note: if you do not have your ECU OneCard, you can login by typing your myEC username and password using the on-screen keyboard.

6. Select Print All, or press Print Release to print specific files.

7. Select your file(s)

8. Press Print to print or the trash can to delete.

9. Press Log out in the top right corner when you are done printing.

1. Make sure there are “No errors”. If you have missing fonts, the printer will either not print your file or convert the missing fonts to a default system font like Times New Roman and will re-flow your text blocks.

2. Go to File and Document Setup to review your document elements

3. In Document Setup, check the number of pages in your document to make sure it will work for your printing intent.

4. Check the page size of your document in inches and determine if you will have to scale your document to fit it to your intended paper size.

5. Is your document set up as portrait or landscape?

6. Did you set up the content in any of your pages to bleed or does every page have a white margin of at least .25 inches? If you are bleeding content on any of the pages in your document, did you set up your Bleed settings for .125” and do the components that bleed go out to the bleed margin?

7. Once you have re-familiarized yourself with your document setup, click OK to return to the main window.

You are now back in the main window.

8. Now that you are ready to print, go to File at the top of the window and select Print from the drop-down list.

9. Select General from the list on the left in the Print window.

10. From the Printer drop-down list, choose the laser printer that you want to print with.

Note! Each printer can only print to the size of paper that has been preloaded in it, therefore be familiarwith the paper sizes loaded in each laser printer.

11. In Copies, even if you want to print multiple copies of your file, it is recommended that you printonly one copy first so that you can have a printed copy to proof before committing to multiple copies.

12. In Pages set up whether you are printing All the pages in your document or a select number ofpages.

13. You must select whether you are printing the pages from your document as a Page (one page on aside of a piece of paper), or as Spreads (two pages side by side on a side of a piece of paper)

14. Choose Print Blank Pages when you have purposefully made blank pages in your document.

15. Click Page Setup to continue.

You are now in the Page Setup window.

16. In Page Setup re-select the printer in the Format For from the pull-down list that you chose toprint with in the Print/General menu .

17. In the Paper Size pull-down list, only the papers available in the printer you are choosing to printwith will be displayed. Pick the paper size that you want to print on.

Note! If the size you want to print to is not available, you will have to choose a different printer or scaleyour document to fit to the available paper size.

18. If you are printing Pages (one page per side of a single sheet of paper), select either portrait orlandscape orientation. If you created your document in portrait orientation and want to print Spreads (two pages side by side per side of a single sheet of paper), select the landscape orientation.

19. Click OK to continue.

You are now in the Print window.

20. Select Setup from the list on the left in the Print window.

21. If your document pages are smaller or the same size but with no bleed as the available paper size, setScale to 100% in Width and Height. If your document pages are larger than the available paper size or the document page size is the same as the paper size but you have bleed, choose Scale To Fit.

22. Unless you have a good reason to select one of the other choices, always choose Centred as the method of printing your document on the paper.

23. Select Marks and Bleed from the list on the left in the Print\ window.

24. If your document pages are smaller or the same size as the printer paper but you set up your document with bleed, select Crop Marks and make sure Offset is set to 0.0833 inches. If your document page size is the same size as the printer paper and you have white margins on all the pages, do not select any of the Marks options.

25. If you set a bleed value in Document Setup when you created your document originally, select Use Document Bleed Settings. If you did not set up a bleed value in Document Setup when you created your document originally but you did design your document with proper bleeding, choosingUse Document Bleed Settings will have no effect, you should instead deselect Use Document BleedSettings and enter the bleed value of .125 inches manually for all for sides.

26. Click Printer to continue.

27. In the Print window, select Color Matching from the pull-down list.

28. Choose In printer as the colour matching option.

29. From the pull-down list that is now displaying Color Matching, select Xerox Features.

30. Click on the Printer button at the bottom of the Print window.

31. If your project is double sided click where it says Two-Sided.

32. Next select whether it is Long-Edge or Short-Edge binding.

33. Click Print to continue.

In order to print your files using the ECU Self-Serve printers, you will be prompted to log in to your account (use your MyEC login) once you have sent your file to a printer. Please remember that you can only print when you are logged on the secure campus Wi-Fi, or when you are using a campus computer!

1. Send your file from your computer to the printer. Choose a printer name based on if you are printing black and white, or colour - once you send your file, you can then print it at any of the Self-Serve laser printers on campus!

2. Wait for a moment - an alert will pop up requesting you log in to your account.

3. Sign in using your MyEC credentials.
*Note: on public computers, we suggest selecting 'Remember: 1 minute'

4. An alert will pop up letting you know that your file has been sent to the campus print system. Time to find a printer!

5. At the printer, log in by tapping your ECU OneCard on the card reader.
* Note: if you do not have your ECU OneCard, you can login by typing your myEC username and password using the on-screen keyboard.

6. Select Print All, or press Print Release to print specific files.

7. Select your file(s)

8. Press Print to print or the trash can to delete.

9. Press Log out in the top right corner when you are done printing.

Properly size your work in Photoshop to the print size you want but keep in mind the maximum printable width of the printer you want to print to.

Check the maximum printable width for the printer. Note that you are charged for the full printable width by the length you set up.

To make things easier, set up your file to maximize the printable width. For example, if your file is oriented as a portrait and the width is 10 inches and the height is 16 inches, rotate the file 90 degrees so that the width is 16 inches and the height is 10 inches. This way you will minimize the cost of printing the file. If you are printing several small files, it is recommended that you place them into one file that maximizes the printable width so as to minimize the cost of your printing.

Avoid printing from Preview. Print from Photoshop or Acrobat instead.

Once your file is ready to print, merge your layers and go to the menu at the top of the Photoshop window and select File and then Print.

1. From the Printer Setup drop-down list in the Photoshop Print Settings menu, choose the printer you want to print to.

2. From the Color Handling drop-down list, select Printer Manages Colors.

3. Normal Printing should be selected.

4. From the Rendering Intent drop-down list, select Relative Colorimetric.

5. Click on the Print Settings button once the above settings have been chosen.

6. In the Print Setting window, start by verifying that the correct printer is displayed in the Printer drop-down list. If not, select the printer you want.

7. In the Paper Size drop-down list, you will have two options to set the paper size for your image.

7a. The first and simplest option is to select one of the six available preset sizes. If one of these sizes hasa paper length that is equal to the height of your image or is marginally longer, choose this as your papersize.

7b. If the six preset options are either too short or too long, choose the option of Manage CustomSizes and create your own custom paper length for your image.

7b1. When creating your own paper size, first click on the “+” button.

7b2. It is important to label your new paper size and it is highly recommended that you label it thefollowing way: Width (maximum printable width for the printer) x Height (length of media required to fityour image + .5 inches extra).

7b3. It is extremely important that you select the correct self-serve inkjet printer from the Non-PrintableArea drop-down list as this sets up the correct printer margins.

7b4. In the Paper Size window boxes, the Width is the maximum printable width for the printer andshould not be adjusted.

In the Length window box, change the maximum paper length to the length yourequire for your image + .5 inches extra.

The sizes in the Paper Size width and height window boxesshould be the same as the name you created for your custom paper size. Once this is done, click Save.

8. From the selection list displaying Layout choose Color Matching.

8a. In the Color Matching window, select the radial button In printer (8b.) and click Save.

In order to print your files using the ECU Self-Serve printers, you will be prompted to log in to your account (use your MyEC login) once you have sent your file to a printer. Please remember that you can only print when you are logged on the secure campus Wi-Fi, or when you are using a campus computer!

1. Send your file from your computer to the printer. Choose a printer name based on if you are printing black and white, or colour - once you send your file, you can then print it at any of the Self-Serve laser printers on campus!

2. Wait for a moment - an alert will pop up requesting you log in to your account.

3. Sign in using your MyEC credentials.
*Note: on public computers, we suggest selecting 'Remember: 1 minute'

4. An alert will pop up letting you know that your file has been sent to the campus print system. Time to find a printer!

5. At the printer, log in by tapping your ECU OneCard on the card reader.
* Note: if you do not have your ECU OneCard, you can login by typing your myEC username and password using the on-screen keyboard.

6. Select Print All, or press Print Release to print specific files.

7. Select your file(s)

8. Press Print to print or the trash can to delete.

9. Press Log out in the top right corner when you are done printing.

Be aware of the size of the work you want to print and if you need to rotate the file in order to fit it to thewidth of the media you want to print on.

Check the maximum printable width for the printer. Note that you are charged for the full printable widthby the length you set up.

To make things easier, rotate your file to maximize the printable width. For example, if your file is orientedas a portrait and the width is 10 inches and the height is 16 inches, rotate the file 90 degrees so that thewidth is 16 inches and the height is 10 inches. This way you will minimize the cost of printing the file.

Ifyou are printing several small files, it is recommended that you place them into one file that maximizes theprintable width so as to minimize the cost of your printing.

1. Check to see if you need to rotate the page in order to fit the image to the maximum printable widthof the paper loaded in the printer. In this example, the image is 22.03 inches wide and 16.5 inches hightherefor we will want to rotate the image to fit on a roll with a maximum 16.5 inches wide.

2. To rotate a page, select the Tools tab at the top of your window and choose Organize Pages.

3. In the Organize Pages window, select the page you want to rotate by clicking on it.

3a. click on the clockwise or counter clockwise arrows in the menu bar to rotate the page.

3b. Click the X button in the top-right side of the menu bar to close the Organize Pages window andreturn to the main Acrobat window.

Once your file is ready to print, go to the menu at the top of the Acrobat window and select File and then Print.

4. From the Printer drop-down list in the Acrobat’s Print window, choose the printer you want.

4a. After selecting the printer, click “Advanced” to set up the file’s colour management.

5. In the Advanced Print Setup window, select Color Management from the menu on the left side ofthe window.

6. In the Color Handling pull-down list, select Same As Source (No Color Management) and thenclick the OK button located at the bottom-right of the window.

From the main Acrobat Print window, click Page Setup located at the bottom-left of the window.

7. In the Page Setup window, start by verifying that the correct printer is displayed in the Format For drop-down list. If not, select the printer you want.

8. In the Paper Size drop-down list, you will have two options to set the paper size for your image.

8a. The first and simplest option is to select one of the six available preset sizes. If one of these sizes hasa paper length that is equal to the height of your image or is marginally longer, choose this as your papersize.

8b. If the six preset options are either too short or too long, choose the option of Manage CustomSizes and create your own custom paper length for your image.

9. When creating your own paper size, first click on the + button.

9a. It is important to label your new paper size and it is highly recommended that you label it the followingway: Width (maximum printable width for the printer) x Height (length of media required to fit yourimage + .5 inches extra).

10. It is extremely important that you select the correct self-serve inkjet printer from the Non-PrintableArea drop-down list as this sets up the correct printer margins.

11. In the Paper Size window boxes, the Width is the maximum printable width for the printer andshould not be adjusted. In the Length window box, change the maximum paper length to the lengthyou require for your page + .5 inches extra. The sizes entered in the Paper Size, Width and Height window boxes should be the same as the name you created for your custom paper size. Once this is done,click Save.

NOTE! Before clicking Print double-check the settings.

11. Is the printer you want to print to selected?

12. In Pages to Print, if there is only one page in the document, All will be selected. If there aremultiple pages in the document, select Pages and make sure the correct page number is entered andonly send one page at a time.

13. Make sure that Actual size is selected unless you want Acrobat to scale the image for you.

14. In Orientation, Choose Portrait.

15. This value represents the size your page will print as.

16. This value represents the page size you selected or created.

17. The thumbnail image represents your page on the paper size you chose or created, including theorientation. If it looks like any part of your image is cut off, it could be that you selected or created toosmall a paper size or your orientation is incorrect and you will have to go back and fix the problem.

In order to print your files using the ECU Self-Serve printers, you will be prompted to log in to your account (use your MyEC login) once you have sent your file to a printer. Please remember that you can only print when you are logged on the secure campus Wi-Fi, or when you are using a campus computer!

1. Send your file from your computer to the printer. Choose a printer name based on if you are printing black and white, or colour - once you send your file, you can then print it at any of the Self-Serve laser printers on campus!

2. Wait for a moment - an alert will pop up requesting you log in to your account.

3. Sign in using your MyEC credentials.
*Note: on public computers, we suggest selecting 'Remember: 1 minute'

4. An alert will pop up letting you know that your file has been sent to the campus print system. Time to find a printer!

5. At the printer, log in by tapping your ECU OneCard on the card reader.
* Note: if you do not have your ECU OneCard, you can login by typing your myEC username and password using the on-screen keyboard.

6. Select Print All, or press Print Release to print specific files.

7. Select your file(s)

8. Press Print to print or the trash can to delete.

9. Press Log out in the top right corner when you are done printing.

The new printers also act as scanners! You will be able to scan something for free, and send it directly to your ECU email.

1. Log in to the touch screen by tapping your ECU OneCard on the card reader.

2. Select Scan.

3. Press Start Scanning, or press Settings to change options and then press Start Scanning

4. Press Log out when you are done!

There is now colour, black and white, letter, and tabloid laser printing on every level of the building! Take a look at this Campus Printer Map to find a printer near you.