SDC - Printing 101

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What Do I Need

1) You need to have money on your VCEA Papercut print account. (Print accounts are unique to VCEA and is not CougPrints)

• To add money to your VCEA Papercut print account, first add Cougar CASH to your CougarCard (https://cougarcard.wsu.edu or MyWSU)
• Once you have Cougar CASH, go to https://printserver.vcea.wsu.edu and add the money to your VCEA Papercut print account.  See SDC - Add Print Funds using Cougar CASH.
• If you're on a SDC lab computer, your print account balance will be shown in the small PaperCut window after you login.

2) Make sure you have exported your file as a PDF using the Press Quality Preset. - See Tutorials in 301/425

• Creating PDF From Adobe Illustrator
• Creating PDF From Adobe InDesign
• Creating PDF From Adobe Photoshop

• Save your file to a USB thumb drive or upload to the Cloud. (One Drive, Email, etc)

3) Login to a computer in an SDC lab, Carp 425 or Carp 301 using your WSU username (w/o @wsu.edu at the end)

4) Open your file via flash drive or cloud using Adobe Acrobat. (Other apps will work but not recommended.)

5) Print your file. If your printer is not available / installed, install it - See Note Below.

How To Install Printers

SDC Owned Machines

....if the printer is not already installed on the machine.

1) Look on the Windows “Desktop”
2) Click on the “Add Printer” icon.
3) Double-click on printer name to install and close the window.

OR

1) Go to “Start”
2) Type “\\printserver.ad.vcea.wsu.edu\SDC” in the “Search Programs and Files” dialog box and hit “Enter”
3) Double-click on printer name to install and close the window.

Personal Windows Device

To use your own Windows machine SDC - Printing on a not WSU Owned Windows Machine 

Personal Apple Device

Personal Apple devices are not supported.  Please use the SDC owned machines. 

Printer Names and Cost

How To Calculate Plotter Print Cost

Examples