Allotment and print funding at IU

On this page:

Overview
Check your allotment balance
- How funds are deducted from your accounts
Standard print allotments
Standard print/copy pricing
Plotter printing
- IU Bloomington
- IU Southeast
More about printing for faculty, staff, departments, and the public
- Departments
- Unaffiliated community members

Overview

At Indiana University, the IU Print service provides on-campus printing for IU students, Purdue students on the Indianapolis campus, faculty, and staff. Managed print services are also available for internal departments and organizations.

Check your allotment balance

To check the balance of your IU Print allotment:

Visit Mobile Print.
If prompted, log in with your IU username and passphrase.
Look in the bottom left corner of the screen, under the "Payment Method" area. Your allotment balances will be displayed.
If you exceed your standard print allotment and still need to print, contact your campus Support Center.

Important:

For students, faculty, and staff, additional printing funds are only necessary for plotter printing, which requires CrimsonCash. You should not add CrimsonCash for printing unless it's for plotting.

How funds are deducted from your accounts

When you print, credits and funds will be deducted from your accounts in the following order (if applicable):

IU Print Allotment
IU Print Departmental
CrimsonCash (for plotter printing only)

Standard print allotments

IU Print allotments for all accounts, regardless of affiliation or enrollment status, will be set to zero and then credited $26 at the beginning of each semester (usually the first week of classes). Print funds cannot be rolled over to the next semester. If more funds are required, an increase of $52 can be requested without fee once a semester. Unaffiliated community members will get a one-time $26 credit. Once a total of $78 has been distributed within a semester, alternative printing arrangements external to IU will need to be used. CrimsonCash is no longer an available option for additional printing on campus outside of plotter printing.

With the standard $26 allotment you can print approximately 650 B&W pages or 104 color pages.

Print credits are non-refundable. Returned credits for damaged or unprinted output are available upon request at most STC locations. See Refunds for unacceptable printing output.

Standard print/copy pricing

Available print options vary by device and location. Pricing is subject to change per semester.

**IU Print options and costs (per-page)**
Print option	Cost per page
B&W letter (simplex, 8.5x11)	$0.04
B&W letter (duplex, 8.5x11)	$0.07
B&W tabloid (simplex, 11x17)	$0.08
B&W tabloid (duplex, 11x17)	$0.15
Color letter (simplex, 8.5x11)	$0.25
Color letter (duplex, 8.5x11)	$0.49
Color tabloid (simplex, 11x17)	$0.50
Color tabloid (duplex, 11x17)	$0.99

Important:

To avoid color printing at a higher rate, direct your output to a B&W print queue. You will not be credited for any pages you mistakenly sent to a color print queue.

Plotter printing

Plotter printing is available to students, faculty, and staff at IU Bloomington and IU Indianapolis. Prices between campuses differ and are subject to change at the beginning of an academic year.

Standard print allotment funds cannot be used as payment for this service; use CrimsonCash deposits instead. A $2.50 processing fee applies to online and in-person deposits.

Note:

If your campus isn't listed below, check with your department for oversize print options.

IU Bloomington

**Plotter pricing at IU Bloomington**
Paper finish	Base price	Cost per square inch
Matte	$5.00	$0.0057
Satin	$5.00	$0.0065

Example: A 3' x 4' plot (1,728 square inches) can cost up to $14.85 on matte paper or up to $16.23 on satin paper.

For questions about plotter pricing and payment at IU Bloomington, call Support Center In-Person Support (SCIPS) at 812-855-3802.

IU Southeast

For questions about poster/plotter printing in the IU Southeast Library, speak with someone at the Library Service Desk just inside the main entrance of the library. You can also email libhelp@iu.edu or call 812-941-2485.

More about printing for faculty, staff, departments, and the public

Departments

See department funded printing for information on providing funds to faculty, staff, or students using a KFS account.

Unaffiliated community members

Members of the public will receive a one-time $26 credit at their local campus library via a borrower's card. See Get an IU library borrower's card.