Friday, June 17, 2005

Vendor card printing

This will, I hope, be the last post we see about vendor card printing in the library. As of today, the vendor card printers can be accessed from all public PCs on the 2nd floor the library. Saad just announced on BBLIB that he's figured out a way to allow the vendor card printer to work even from the PCs requiring login first (via Bluesocket). Here are the steps for those PCs that require a Baruch student/faculty/staff login:
  1. User must login using their username and password (Baruch students will type their Baruch usernames, Baruch staff and faculty will enter the same login info they use for the PCs in their own offices on campus).
  2. Once the user has logged in, he or she must click the "activate vendor printer" icon on the desktop of the PC.
  3. The user can then send print jobs to the vendor card printer whenever he or she clicks the "File>Print..." command. (For details on this step, see the "Network Printing: Non-Student Users" page that explains the vendor card printer.)
  4. Once the user is done, he or she should logoff as always and then click the "clear vendor printer" icon on the desktop.
The 8 public PCs behind the reference desk (which don't require login but which are limited to database/Blackboard/CUNY+/Baruch web site use) continue to have the same access to the vendor card printer that they've always had.

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