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Printing costs

Printing using UniPrint is charged to you as the number of sheets used plus the number of impressions made.  Please be aware, however, that Uniprint calculates the cost of a print job in two different ways.  The printer itself will assess the document and, if it contains any colour content (no matter how little), the price for printing the whole document in colour will be displayed on the printer.  When the job is then submitted, the SafeCom charging system will calculate the real cost of printing the job based on the B & W and colour pages present, and this is what will be actually debited from your printer quota allocation. 

N.B. Although you may have sufficient credit to pay for the actual cost of printing your job UniPrint will not allow your document(s) to be printed if you do not have sufficient credit in your print account to complete the job at the higher cost.

N.B. Please ensure that you use up your UniPrint credit prior to leaving the University as unused print credit cannot be refunded by IT Services

• Visit MyPrint to view your print job(s) and your printer account details

Table A shows the actual costs of printing A4 and A3 pages.  Table B shows how these costs are broken down:

Table A

Table B

Example

5 page A4 single-sided document, 4 x pages with B & W content only, 1 x page with some colour content

Cost as displayed on the printer

Actual cost to you