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Printing Policy
The Law School allows law students to print up to 600 black & white (b&w) pages per term at no cost (double-sided printing counts as one page.) Students are charged for any printing that exceeds this fixed per-semester allowance. Based on past experience, we expect the vast majority of students to be able to easily meet their printing needs within the allowable quota.
Please read this entire page to understand exactly when and how you will be charged. Also, take a look at the University of Richmond's Law School Printing Survey to find out what other law schools charge for printing.
You may monitor your own printing activities via our web-based Print Monitor system.
Printing Quota
Law students receive two separate printing allowances per term at no cost:
- 600 b&w pages for printing to any of the Law School designated student printers (provided by the Law School)
- 400 b&w pages for printing to any Campus Computing Sites and ResComp printer (provided by the University to all U-M students)
Charging and Billing
Charging period
- Law School charge for printing begins on the first day of term and ends on the day before the next term begins.
Charging suspended
- Charge for printing is suspended during the study days and the week of finals.
Beyond Quota Charge
- Additional Law School b&w pages cost $0.05 per page whether single-sided or double-sided (one page in the Law School counts as one sheet of paper)
- Additional Sites b&w pages cost $0.06 per printed side (double-sided printing in Sites and ResComp counts as two pages and is not discounted)
Billing
- Charges for printing beyond the quotas in either environment will automatically be charged to your University student account in the first weeks of the following term and will appear on your tuition statement.
- Payment may be made in 3 ways:
- In person at the Cashier's Office
- By mail
- Online via Wolverine Access
- If you are graduating, you should still get the bill and be able to pay it using one of the 3 means mentioned above. The Financial Aid Office Web site has a link to a web page that explains how to make payments.
Unused Pages
- Unused printing allowance is not rolled over to the next term.
Printing Resumes
In the 200HH student lounge there is one (1) resume printing workstation with an attached printer (without paper) where you can print with your own paper and not be charged.
Lexis/Westlaw printing
Students are not charged for Lexis/Westlaw printing as long as the Lexis/Westlaw print-outs are directed to the designated Lexis/Westlaw printers. However, please note that if you direct your Lexis/Westlaw print-outs to the Law School's regular networked duplex printers, you will be charged. There are written instructions in the student lounge and the computer lab on how to direct your Lexis/Westlaw print-outs to the designated Lexis/Westlaw printers. If the Lexis/Westlaw printers are out of order in the Sub-3 computer lab, you should re-direct your Lexis/Westlaw print jobs to the Lexis/Westlaw printers on Sub-2 of the Law Library (not to the regular networked duplex printers in the computer lab) in order to avoid being charged for those printing sessions.
Duplex printing
All designated student printers at the Law School are duplex printers by default (to permit double-sided printing) so that you can save paper and money. However, you can manually select single-sided printing for any print job by changing the default settings in the print window.
Printing from Journal and Student Organization printers
Any printing done in the journal and student organization offices under their login will not be charged. The journals and organizations are responsible for acquiring and controlling their own paper usage.
Sites printers
There are two (2) Sites printers located in the Law School (one in the student lounge and the other in the computer lab). The Sites printers print single-sided by default. Printing directed to the Sites printers will be charged from your 400-pg ITCS printing quota, not from your Law School printing quota.
The Law School printer installation script does not install the Sites printers. Instead you must use mPrint to print to the Sites printers.
Tips to conserve paper and your printing quota
- Making changes or corrections: Do you really need to print the whole document? Print only the pages needed by selecting the page range prior to printing.
- Often blank pages will be included at the end of printouts from Web sites. Use the Print Preview feature in your browser to check the number of pages in your print job prior to printing and print only the page range necessary in order to eliminate the additional pages.
- You’ll get more for your money in the Law School if you print duplex (double-sided). A double-sided page counts as one page within your allowance. Each page you print after your quota costs $0.05 cents regardless of whether it is duplex or single-sided. So you can print two pages for the price of one if you print duplex.
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