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Overview of Printing at CAEN

CAEN provides black & white printing services in its computing labs located in College of Engineering (CoE) buildings at no direct charge to CoE students. However, page quotas are enforced on lab printers each semester (semesters are based on the academic calendar from the first day of class through the last day of exams). Based on every semesters' statistics, the quota should cover the printing needs for most students, and will help ensure that printing resources are used effectively.

Printing is a valuable resource for the course work and research of CoE students. CAEN strives to provide students with the best computing services at U-M. U-M students receive 400 pages of printing from ITCS; CAEN provides over six times as many pages to CoE students.

Black & White Printing in CAEN Computing Labs

CAEN HP Printers

The black & white printers located in CAEN computing labs are owned and operated by CAEN. CoE students receive 1500 pages on CAEN's HP (RED) printers and 1000 pages on CAEN's Xerox (BLUE) printers, for a total of 2500 pages (five reams of paper) of black & white printing in every semester. For more information on these printing quotas, please see our printing quotas page.

CAEN printers are a community resource, so please treat them as such and be courteous to others who use them:

  • Do not print multiple copies of any single document. Split up large or complex jobs into smaller sections (e.g. <25 pages) to allow others equal access to the printers.
  • Do not manually feed your own paper in any CAEN lab printer (especially transparencies) as this may damage the printer and limit access to others.

For problems with CAEN printers, or questions about your CAEN lab printing quota, contact the CAEN Hotline.

Black & White Printing at ITCS Sites & The Duderstadt Center

All U-M students receive a Basic Computing Package (BCP) each semester from ITCS to cover printing services in ITCS computing sites. These sites includes the Duderstadt Center, Shapiro Undergraduate Library (UGLi) and Ross Academic Center, which have CAEN computers. The printers in these locations are owned and operated by ITCS, and pages printed in these sites are deducted from the BCP allocation. For more information about ITCS printing, visit the ITCS Sites web page:

ITCS Color Printing

ITCS provides much of the color printing services on campus. For example, all color printers located in CAEN computing labs and the Duderstadt Center are owned and operated by ITCS Sites. Each page printed on these printers will result in a charge to a student's account; no color printing services are included in the ITCS Basic Computing Package (BCP). For the current cost of ITCS color printing, please refer to the ITCS Sites printing page.

Note: If you have a problem with a color printer in a CAEN lab or the Duderstadt Center, email ITCS Sites at sites@umich.edu, or call them at 734-64S-ITES.

Printing Problems

If you are printing to a printer in a CAEN computing lab on North campus and see an error message of out of toner or out of paper displayed on the printer, contact the CAEN Hotline.

Note: ITCS manages all printers located in the Duderstadt Center. If you have any problems using printers in the Duderstadt Center, contact ITCS Sites for assistance.