ContentsThe User Printing Management page is used to buy additional pages with your LionCash+ account, change your job limit, and review information about your printing account. Here are details about that application.
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See the Printing Services page for a list of all topics related to printing.
The unit of accounting in this system is a "page", which is equivalent to one piece of 8½"x11" paper, printed on one or both sides, on a black toner printer. See Limits and Charges.
The printing system requires that you have "pages" available for printing. These are simply numbers in a database, with one record per person. When you print something, your available pages are reduced by the number of physical pages in the job, according to the established rates. For example, one physical page (maybe printed on both sides) of regular paper, not on a color printer, counts as one page. Color printers and larger paper count as multiple pages per physical page. When you have no pages left, or fewer pages than a print job needs, the job won't print and you will get a pop-up message saying so.
Pages are added to your account at the beginning of each semester (if you are a student), when you buy them with LionCash+, or when a request for credit for a missing or spoiled job is approved.
The system also has a user-settable Job Limit, which is the maximum number of pages in a single job that will be allowed to print. Keeping this number small prevents accidental printing of very large jobs.
On startup the current number of pages you have remaining for printing and your job limit are shown, along with 5 buttons for the major functions available:
These functions are explained in detail below, but the web page is designed so most people can use it without reading the instructions.
The page may be opened with a query string of ?BuyPages=x, where x is the number of pages needed. This will open the buy pages panel automatically.
Buy PagesClick the [Buy Pages] button to open the panel for buying more pages with your LionCash+ account. Instructions are shown and the process should be straight-forward. Here's what happens:
You may click the Transactions button to review your purchases. You may buy any number of pages any time you wish.
More information about the LionCash+ purchasing system for printing is at http://clc.its.psu.edu/Printing/LionCashPrinting.aspx.
To the right of the [Buy Pages] button is a link labeled "return" that can be clicked to return unused pages you have purchased with LionCash for credit to your LionCash+ account. This may be used only once per semester. It can be done anytime during the semester. You do not have to return all of the LionCash pages you have in reserve.
Because the web page involves a financial transaction, and it is often used in public areas, you will be prompted to enter your Access Account password to complete the purchase or return of pages if it has been more than 2 minutes since you have opened the page.
Note that to be safest, if you aren't about to log off the computer, you should click the logout link on the top right of the CLC secure server pages when you are finished.
The job limit function allows you to set the maximum pages that are accepted by the print servers in one job. It will display a text box with your current setting and you can change it. The allowed range is 10 to 1000. The default is 100. If you set it very low, say 10, don't forget you did that when you go to try to print a job with 11 pages. Don't forget that jobs sent to color printers or specified for larger paper sizes count as multiple pages, as described in Printing Limits and Charges.
Use the [Transactions] button to see a list of pages allocated or credited to your account. A table with several columns will be displayed. The columns include:
You may click on the column heading to re-order the list by that column; click the same column again to re-order the opposite way. By default the transactions from the current semester are shown. You can select previous semesters if there are any transactions for you during past semesters. This feature began summer 2008, so there is no data prior to May 12, 2008. Some accounts, those not allowed to print any pages for free, may no have any transactions at all.
You will see one or more transaction records for credit requests that have been granted, one per job that was credited. A job credit will add pages to your semester allocation, unit allocation, or your count of LionCash purchased pages, depending on how many of each the job "used" at the time.
A record for tracking your page totals is created for you the first time a job is printed (by one of the printers controlled by this mechanism) or when you visit the the Printing Management page for the first time. Those records are archived at the end of each semester and removed from the database unless you have some LionCash+ pages remaining.
The information displayed is:
| Data Label | Explanation |
| Date/Time Added: | The date and time your printing summary record was created. This is when you first printed (or tried to print) or when you used the User Printing Management page. |
| Date/Time Changed: | The date and time your printing summary record was last changed. Usually this is when you printed last but could also be when something else changed in your record. |
| Total Jobs: | The total number of print jobs done this semester, including jobs for which credit was given. |
| Total Pages: | The total number of physical pages printed in all jobs this semester (printing on one or both sides counts as one page). It does not include any pages for which credit has been granted. |
| Credits: | The number of jobs for which some number of pages have been credited. |
| Credit Pages: | The total number of pages credited this semester. |
| Total Pages Available: | The maximum number of pages you may print right now. A print job must have fewer than the minimum of this and "Job Limit". This will be the sum of the three numbers Remaining Semester Allocation, Remaining Unit Allocation, and Remaining LionCash Pages. |
| Job Limit: | The maximum number of pages a job may
contain. Print jobs are accepted by the server only if they have the same or fewer pages than the minimum of your Total Pages Available and Job Limit. In other words, your job limit may be 100 but if your page limit is 5, then you can not print a job with 6 pages. |
| Remaining Semester Allocation: | These 3 numbers are totaled
to get the Total Pages Available, which is how many pages can be printed
at the time the information was queried. The Semester Allocation is the
"free" (subsidized, really) pages students get at the beginning of each
semester (or when their printing record is created). These don't carry over to the next semester.
The Unit Allocation is additional pages granted by a campus, college, or
department to individuals. These do not carry over to the
next semester either. LionCash pages are pages purchased via
the LionCash+ account. Print jobs will "use up" the semester allocation first, then the unit allocation, then the LionCash pages. A large job could use all of the semester allocation and some of the unit allocation, or all of both and some LionCash pages. |
| Remaining Unit Allocation: | |
| Remaining LionCash Pages: | |
| May not return LionCash Pages: | If "false" then you have not returned any LionCash pages for credit this semester. If "true" then you have returned pages for credit and you may not return any more until next semester. |
| Account Status: | This is you account status (Student, Employee, etc.) If incorrect, contact the ITS Account Services. Note that "Guest" users cannot print at all. Other types of users have different abilities. |
The History button will display your printing totals for past semesters. Columns shown are:
Prior to Spring 2006 the credited jobs and pages were not retained, so those columns will be blank.
In the future additional columns with unit allocations and LionCash purchase totals will be added.
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Here are a list of changes made to this application:
| Date | Change |
| 5/15/08 | Change message when LC balance isn't sufficient. Make event log entry a warning if balance query takes more than 1000ms. |