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Information Technology

Using Xerox Copiers

Copiers are conveniently located in many buildings across campus. They are available for printing, copying, and scanning. The information below will help you learn the basic functions. Refer to our printing page to learn how to install a copier. 

Copier Locations

Copiers are in various locations throughout campus. Check out the list below to find a copier near you!
Building Room/Location Access
28 West Behind the Dispatch Desk Staff
Biology Biology 115 Staff/Faculty
Grey Campus Center Hallway between Mail Room and Bookstore Students, Faculty, Staff
Greenwood Conference and Events Planning Office Staff
Chemistry Chem 302 Staff/Faculty
Dorothy Johansen House Kitchen Students, Faculty, Staff
Eliot Hall Eliot 210 Staff
Registrar's Office Staff
Business Office Staff
Eliot 413 Staff/Faculty
Educational Technology Center First Floor Lounge (by the fireplace) Students, Faculty, Staff
Second Floor Faculty Lounge Faculty
Health and Counseling Center Across the reception Staff
Library Library Reference Students, Faculty, Staff
Library 292 Staff
Library 325; North Faculty Offices Faculty
Library 310; South Faculty Offices Faculty
Library Archives Staff
Library North Stacks Students, Faculty, Staff
Library South Stacks Students, Faculty, Staff
Library 187; Storage Staff
Performing Arts Building Performing Arts Resource Center (PARC) Students, Faculty, Staff
Physical Plant Building Upper level Staff
Prexy Second Floor Staff
Psychology Psych 118 Staff/Faculty
Vollum Hall Vollum Lounge 1st floor Faculty
Vollum 3rd floor Faculty
Studio Art Building 2nd Floor Lounge Staff/Faculty
Trillium Trillim Classroom Students, Faculty, Staff

Logging into a Copier

Log into the copier by either swiping your Reed ID  (magnetic strip facing up) or by using the "Keyboard" button and typing your Kerberos username and password. 

This shows the page you see when you turn on the copier. The text on screen asks you to swipe your ID on the scanner or to enter in your login information with the keyboard button on the top right corner of the screen. The keyboard button has been circled red.

When you're done, tap your username in the upper left and select "Log Out" to end your session. You will also be logged out after a short period of inactivity.

Selecting an Account

Printed documents are billed to student accounts or the employee's department. If you have multiple accounts, you will be prompted to select an account after you login. For example, students who have been setup to print on behalf of a department they work in, will be able to choose their personal student account or their employed department. You can change between accounts in the "Select Account" tab of the Home page.

Copying

Tap "Copy" from Home. Scroll down and select the options you want for the job (e.g., color vs black/white output, 2-sided vs. 1-sided, etc.). Select the number of copies you want at the top and tap the blue "Start" button.

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Scan to Email

To scan to an email address, tap "Email" > "Add Recipient", and choose one of the following options:

  • You can select "Add Me” to add your email address to the Recipients list.
  • Or you can select "Network Address Book" to look up anyone with a Reed email to add as your Recipient.

Image of the Email screen. It shows your user in the top left and a send button on the top right. There are options to add recipients, change the subject and many more options below that.

Once the recipients have been added, you can optionally change the subject of the email and/or the name of the file you are scanning. Scroll down and select the options you want for the job (e.g., color vs black/white output, 2-sided vs. 1-sided, etc.). Place your document on  the scanner, and tap "Send" at the top right side of the screen. 

The same Email screen but with more options and the "Build Job" option circled in red.

If you wish to send more than one page of scanned documents, tap "Build Job" before you click "Send". This will replace the "Send" button with a "Scan" button. Click the "Scan" button to scan your first page. After that you'll be prompted with a "Build Job" page. When you're ready to scan your next page click the "Scan Next Segment" button. Once you're done scanning, all your pages click the "Submit" button. This will send the email. There is no need to click the "Send" button after clicking the "Submit" button.

  An image of the build job screen.

Scan to USB Drive

To scan to a USB drive, tap "Workflow Scanning" > "USB", insert your USB drive, set up your job options using the options below, and then tap the "Scan" button on the top right corner of the screen.

A screen with the Workflow options.

A screen illustrating how to insert a USB into the machine.

Print from USB Drive

To print from a USB drive, tap "Print from" > "USB". Insert your USB drive, set up your job options below, and then hit the purple "Print" button on the right hand side of the copier.

A screen with the PrintFrom options

A screen showing you how to insert a USB into the machine. An image of the PrintFrom Menu with your user name on the top left, a print button on the top right, and options below.

Scanning a Book into a Single PDF

Follow the steps below to scan multiple pages into one document.

  1. Log on to copier (with card swipe, or Reed username and password).
  2. Select account (scanning is not tracked or billed).
  3. Click the "Email" button.
  4. Select your recipient. For more info see above in the Email section.
  5. Click "Build Job", click "On".
  6. Change any scan settings in the options you'd like
  7. Place your book on scanner, push "Scan" on the top right corner.
  8. Turn the page on your book, place it on the scanner, and push the "Scan Next Segment" button in between every page you want scanned.
  9. When you're done scanning, click "Submit" to send the whole job to the email addresses you entered.

Scanning to PDF with OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) adapts text from a scanned page to a text-searchable PDF. 

  1. Log on to copier (with card swipe, or Reed username and password).
  2. Click the "Email" button.
  3. Select your recipient.  For more info see above in the Email section.
  4. Click ".pdf" next to the box with the file name 
  5. Click the dropdown menu that says "PDF" and select "More" instead. 
  6. On the File Format page, click to "pdf/a". Under "Searchable", switch to "Yes"
  7. Click OK and scan your paper.

Printing Transparencies

  1. Print your desired image to a black-and-white printer.
  2. Place transparency into the manual feed tray (see image below) with the long side going in (i.e. portrait orientation).
    manual feed tray
  3. When the copier detects the transparency in the tray, set the paper size to 'U.S. letter (8.5"x11")' and set the type to 'transparency'.
  4. Swipe into the copier and select 'copy'.
  5. Place your printout from Step 1 onto the scanner in the same orientation as the transparency paper (i.e. portrait).
  6. Select 'portrait' for the orientation of the paper in the copier settings.
  7. Set the feed tray to be the manual feed (it will say it has transparency paper).
  8. Start the copy.
  9. Enjoy the high quality transparency!

Troubleshooting

Having trouble with a copier? Try the troubleshooting steps below, and let us know if a problem persists!

Try turning the copier off and then on again.

    1. Tap the power button on the touch panel. Select “Power Off”. Wait about 10 seconds for all the lights to dim before proceeding to step 2.
      power
    2. Gently pull down on the front door of the copier, revealing the toner cartridges and a secondary power switch. Flip this switch, wait 5 seconds, then flip it back on.
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    3. Tap the power button on the touch panel to start the machine again. The copier take several minutes to boot up.