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Overview

Printing (and copying) comes at a cost to the environment, for this reason we implement a virtual print budget to help users keep a track of their impact.

• All students have a virtual balance of £10 print credit at the start of each academic year

  • This is not real money, just a virtual balance

• You will automatically be credited a top-up every three months

• You cannot top-up using your own money

• If your balance is running low, or you are unable to print:

  • Consider whether high volume printing might apply to you

  • Ask another University of Essex student or staff member to print for you

    • Print on another's behalf

ℹ️ Many University resources are available digitally, reducing the need to have hardcopy versions of these resources.

⚠️ All printing is logged, monitored, and subject to a fair use policy. Abuse of the printing service may result in a conduct investigation.

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Print & Copy Costs

The printers will default to print double-sided and B&W (mono) as this has the least impact on the environment and your print budget. They will also analyse print jobs at a page level, and only charge for colour on pages in a document that contain colour.

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Checking your print balance

By logging in to uniFLOW Online and checking your Dashboard, your balance is shown on the left side of the page.

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ℹ️ If there is no budget shown under Secure Print, or you see the following on uniFLOW Online, then it means that your virtual balance is ‘paused’, which may be as a result of being added to high volume printing. You will be able to print, and this will not be subtracted from your virtual balance.

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Accessing high volume printing

You may need to access high volume printing at various points while at the University.

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