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Provides guidelines for the type, placement, and appropriate use of printing hardware across Bowdoin's campus and formalizes student and office printing. It aims to ensure access to printing for necessary College operations while encouraging sustainable practices and reducing costs, and applies to students, faculty, and staff who print at the College.

Troubleshooting steps for a Mac when a printer appears paused, stuck "in use," or will not print new documents. Covers checking printer status, clearing stuck jobs, restarting, power cycling the printer, removing and re-adding the printer, and resetting the printing system as a last resort. Applies to anyone printing from a Mac.

Explains why student photos do not appear when printing the Canvas People page and how to enable background image printing in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to resolve the issue.

Explains what the PaperCut Client (PCClient) application is, why it is required for printing on campus, and how to tell whether it is running on a Mac or Windows 11 computer. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.

How to release a held print job using the PaperCut web portal at papercut.bowdoin.edu. Covers signing in, viewing queued jobs, selecting a physical printer, and using the mobile release site on a phone or tablet. Useful when releasing at the printer is not possible or when you want to choose which printer your job prints to. Requires a Bowdoin account and connection to the Bowdoin network or VPN.

Step-by-step instructions for releasing a held print job to a campus printer. Covers three methods: releasing at the printer using your OneCard or Bowdoin ID, releasing through the PaperCut web portal, and releasing from a mobile device. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff

Instructions for printing to Bowdoin campus printers from a personally owned Mac or Windows computer. Covers installing PaperCut Client and the Mobility Print printer, sending a print job, and releasing the job at a campus printer or through the PaperCut web portal.

How to print to a Bowdoin campus printer from off campus using the Bowdoin VPN. Covers connecting to the VPN, sending a print job, and releasing it through the PaperCut web portal when you return to campus or release remotely. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff on Bowdoin-issued computers.

Quick reference guide for printing and releasing documents with PaperCut on Bowdoin-issued computers. Covers prerequisites, how to send a print job, and how to release it at the printer using your OneCard. Applies to all students, faculty, and staff.

Explains PaperCut's 48-hour print job hold policy at Bowdoin. Covers why jobs are held, when they expire, what happens to charges when a job expires, and what to do if a job disappears before you could release it. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.

How guests and visitors can print to campus printers at Bowdoin College. Guest printing is available at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library through a separate process managed by library staff. Visitors needing to print elsewhere on campus should contact the Service Desk.

Options for printing to Bowdoin campus printers from an Android phone or tablet. AirPrint is not available on Android, but printing is possible through the PaperCut Mobility Print setup page or by emailing documents to a computer and printing from there. Requires a connection to the Bowdoin wireless network and a Bowdoin account.

How to switch between color and black & white (grayscale) when printing from a Windows 11 computer to a Bowdoin campus printer. Covers selecting the print mode in the Windows print dialog for Find-Me-Print and Find-Me-Print-Color, and how to save default settings for a printer. Applies to Bowdoin-issued Windows 11 computers.

Explains what PaperCut Print Deploy is and how it manages campus printer installations on Bowdoin-issued Macs and Windows 11 computers. Covers how to find the application, why some printers may not appear in the list, and how Print Deploy differs from the PaperCut Client.

Instructions for setting a default printer on a Mac running macOS Sequoia or Tahoe, and on Windows 11. Also covers how to stop the OS from automatically switching your default printer. Applies to all Bowdoin students, faculty, and staff.