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Printing in Labs

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For the last few years, NACS has managed a pay-for-printing service in its instructional computing labs in an effort to balance printing needs with the inevitable costs of providing that capability. This service has been so successful (we estimate more than half a million pages will be printed this year) that departments which manage other labs have asked for NACS’ assistance in setting up similar services.

Today, “PayPrint” is available in labs managed by NACS, Information and Computer Science (ICS), Social Sciences, Humanities and the Division of Undergraduate Education’s Instructional Technology Center. There are a total of 20 stations to which users can direct printouts, and the cards needed to pay for and authorize printouts in the system are for sale from vending machines in NACS’ labs in Engineering Gateway and the Humanities Instructional Building, as well as in ICS, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

There is more good news for users of PayPrint! A recent analysis of anticipated costs for the coming year has enabled NACS to reduce the price to $0.10 per page. This will make printing more affordable to students.

New Open-access Graduate Student Lab

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Note: The GradEA Lab is no longer in operation.

NACS is pleased to announce the new “GradEA” Graduate Student Computing Lab, located in Engineering Gateway room 1141C. GradEA was created to provide UCI graduate students access to an expanded set of computing resources for their research and instructional activities.

The 8 DEC UNIX workstations in the GradEA computing “cluster” were brought online earlier in the summer to provide graduate students additional remote computing access for e-mail and other uses. NACS has now added additional software to the cluster, opened the lab for local access, and created a study area in the lab. Software applications can now be run remotely over the network, or in the lab facility itself. Local access is especially useful when doing display-intensive work. Manuals and other forms of documentation are also available in the lab, which is open to UCI graduate students 24 hours a day.

NACS plans to add to GradEA in the future and would like input as to what graduate students need in the way of software, computers, peripherals, manuals, and other computing tools. Please send your input via e-mail to NACS@UCI.EDU, or contact Allen Schiano, Manager of NACS Core Services, at 824-2829.

For more information on GradEA, please see: http://www.nacs.uci.edu/computing/gradea