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Equivalence in the Print Quota
All ANU students receive a modest Print Quota to cover basic study. This quota currently is equivalent to 400 standard pages, allocated twice a year.
A "standard page" is one black and white, single-sided, A4 printed page.
Your Print Quota allocation will go further if you choose to print double-sided, because you get a significant discount for duplexing. If you printed your entire quota double sided, instead of 400 standard pages you would actually be able to print 570 document pages and you would only use 285 pieces of paper. That's 170 more imprints for you, and 115 less pieces of paper from the forests of Tasmania!
On the other hand, your print allocation will disappear very quickly if you choose to print to a colour printer or A3 size, because there is a premium attached to those special formats. The relative weightings for each format are given below.
Your Print Quota account is reset to 400 standard pages in January and July of each year. There is no accumulation between semsters.
If you use up all of your printing quota, you are able purchase more at a cost of 5 cents per page single-sided or 7 cents per page double-sided printing.
Your Print Quota can only be used from Information Commons computers. Other locally maintained computers and printers around the campus are outside this system. A list of Information Commons locations is available online.
Your Print Quota is 400 standard pages. The following relative weighting formula applies to various formats:
Table 1.
| A4 single-sided page (black and white printer) | 1 standard page (5 cents) |
| A4 double-sided page (black and white printer) | 1.4 standard pages (7 cents) |
| A3 single-sided page (black and white printer) | 5.28 standard pages |
| A4 single-sided page (colour printer) | 36.6 standard pages |
| A3 single-sided page (colour printer) | 88 standard pages |
| A4 single-sided transparency | 13 standard pages |
All pages printed through the colour printer are charged at the colour rate. The default printers on all Infomation Commons computers are black and white. In some locations where a colour printer is close by, you can choose to print to a colour printer from within the print dialogue boxes. The whole document is charged at the colour rate, even if certain or all pages only use black and white.