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Molstead computer lab phases out the copy card

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Molstead computer lab phases out the copy card

Molstead Computer Lab has implemented a new electronic printing system this semester.

For the last decade NIC has given students copy cards to use on printing machines. Instead having copy cards with funds loaded onto them, the new system will allow students to load and utilize their funds electronically without the need for a card.

“It’s a management system to make sure we don’t take down too many trees with printing,” Shelley Cobetto, the computer lab’s supervisor, said.

The new system, called GoPrint, was purchased by NIC four years ago. Cobetto said that they have been waiting for the Higher One card to be fully implemented to roll out this new system.

Students will continue to receive a quota of $2 for every semester, and can purchase additional printing funds at the computer lab, on MyNIC, or at the cardinal card office. Black and white prints are 5 cents, and color prints have been made cheaper and are now 50 cents.

The computer lab is currently taking back the old copy cards, and can take the funds off those cards and put them into a student’s account. They will perform this trade until the end of the Spring semester.

Cobetto said that the library has not changed to the GoPrint system yet, but expects that they will be by the end of the semester.

“This is the way the universities and colleges across the United States are going,” Cobetto said. “I talk to several every year, and GoPrint’s been a very popular print management service.”

For more information check the computer lab’s page on NIC’s website: www.nic.edu/it/computing.cshtml

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