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Printing on Campus - the Ninja System

The Information Commons (IC) and the Hammer Health Sciences Library provide one color and 17 black and white high-speed laser jet printers located at the Library, PH17 and the Bard Hall Lobby.

The printers are controlled by the Ninja terminals that are adjacent to each printer. To print you must first send your print job to a Ninja printer, then go to the Ninja terminal, select your print job, and log in with your UNI and password. Pages are deducted from your quota after you have logged in a Ninja terminal to print.
For step by step instructions please see below.

Student Page Quotas
Students enrolled in a Medical Center program and taking classes during the current semester receive a print quota for use at the Ninja printers on the Medical Center campus:

  • 700 pages total for the Spring and Fall semesters
  • 200 pages total for the Summer semester

    NOTE: School of Nursing students receive a quota of 450 pages for Summer and Fall semesters, and 700 pages for Spring.
    SMDEP students receive a quota of 100 pages for the duration of the program.

    Student quota pages that are not used by the end of the current semester expire and will not roll over into the next period. If you have both purchased pages and semester quota pages on your account, the semester pages will be deducted first.

    Purchasing Printer Pages
    Ninja printer pages can be purchased by faculty, staff and students with active UNI accounts in increments of $5.00 at the cost of $.10 per black and white page. Color printing costs $1.00 per page.

    Pages can be purchased at the Help Desk on the 2nd floor of the Hammer Library, or by logging in to myUNI and selecting the Purchase Pages link.

    These purchased pages remain on your account until they are used. They may also be used on both Morningside and the Medical Center campus, unlike student page quotas. You can check your existing pages and printing history by logging in to myUNI and selecting the Check Your Print Quota link.

    Ninja Printing Instructions

    1. From your computer, issue the print command from the software application.
    2. Select the printer from the following list in the Print Dialog box:

      Printer Name

      Printer Location
      NinjaLobby Hammer Library Lobby
      NinjaLobby2 Hammer Library Lobby
      NinjaLobby3 Hammer Library Lobby
      Ninja24 24 Hour Computer Lounge at Hammer Library entrance
      Ninja24-2 24 Hour Computer Lounge at Hammer Library entrance
      Ninja2ndfl_1 Hammer 2nd Floor across from the Help Desk
      Ninja2ndfl_2 Hammer 2nd Floor in the E-Lounge
      NinjaColor2ndfl_3 Hammer 2nd Floor past Ninja2ndfl_1
      Ninja2ndfl_4 Hammer 2nd Floor next to color printer
      Ninja2ndfl_5 Hammer 2nd Floor in the Microcomputer Lab
      Ninja2ndfl_6 Hammer 2nd Floor in the Microcomputer Lab
      Ninja2ndfl_7 Hammer 2nd Floor in the Microcomputer Lab
      NinjaPH17Pc Presbyterian Hospital 17th Floor Computer Lab - left side
      NinjaPH17Mac Presbyterian Hospital 17th Floor Computer Lab - right side
      NinjaBardHall Bard Hall Lobby
      NinjaBardHall2 Bard Hall Lobby
      NinjaTW2 Tower 2 Lobby
      NINJaRiverview_4thflr Hammer Building 4th Floor - Riverview Lounge

    3. Note your workstation name located at the top of the monitor. This name identifies your print job in the queue at the Ninja terminal.
    4. Go to the printer to which you printed and locate your workstation name in the list of pending jobs and then do the following:
      1. Highlight the job by moving the selection bar using the up or down arrow key.
      2. Press "ENTER" to select your job.
      3. Type your UNI (first part of your Columbia University e-mail).
      4. Press the "TAB" key to go to the password field.
      5. Type your Columbia University e-mail password and hit "ENTER".
      6. Print jobs stay in queue for 30 minutes and will automatically expire afterwards.

    If you do not have a Columbia UNI or email account, please go to the Information Commons Help Desk on the 2nd Floor of the Library to receive a printing UNI and purchase pages to print.

    You can also configure their personal computers to send print jobs to any of the Ninja printers. Please select the appropriate link for your computer's operating system next to the "How to Setup Your Computer to Print @ IC" document on our Printable Tutorials page.

    The Student FAQs page contains more information about using the Ninja Printing system.

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    Last updated 5/12/08

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