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Printing at the Malpass Library: Wireless Printing From Your Own Device

uPrint

If you are using your own device in the Malpass Library and would like to print, here are some instructions on how to do that. Note that you must be a current student, faculty, or staff member to use this service. You will not be directly connecting to the printer but will instead be uploading documents on the uPrint website, which will add your print jobs to the university-wide release system. See uTech's page on uPrint.

Printing to uPrint

Wireless Printing at the Malpass Library: 

  1. Open a web browser on your device, go to https://uprint.wiu.edu/ and log in with your Ecom username and password.
  2. Click on the Web Print option at left and use the buttons to walk through the printing process. 
  1. Macomb students use the option named “WIU-WIN-LABPRT\Find_Me_Printing (virtual)” (for black & white)
  2. Current faculty and staff jobs will default to “wiu-win-labprt\LIBRARY_2ND_WEST” 
  3. Documents may be uploaded even when off-campus, to be released later on campus.

  1. You may print more than one copy.

  1. Upload the document: Only certain file types are allowed:
    • Microsoft Excel:  xlam, xls, xlsb, xlsm, xlsx, xltm, xltx
    • Microsoft PowerPoint:  pot, potm, potx, ppam, pps, ppsm, ppsx, ppt, pptm, pptx
    • Microsoft Word:  doc, docm, docx, dot, dotm, dotx, rtf, txt
    • PDF:  pdf
    • Picture Files:  bmp, dib, gif, jfif, jif, jpe, jpeg, jpg, png, tif, tiff

  1. Page range printing is not offered within uPrint. However, you can use a “print to PDF” option (Microsoft Print to PDF, CutePDF Writer, etc.) to print the desired page range to a new PDF file. Then upload that smaller file to uPrint.
  2. Release your printout (document will remain in print queue for 10 hours)
  1. If a student, use stations in Digital Commons, RefEast, LCC2 or LCC3/CRC.
  2. If current or retired faculty or staff, use Ecom login at RefWest guest printer.                                     

Rev: 8/25/23

PDF Printing

Microsoft Print to PDF and other native applications have been added to devices in recent years, all of which allow users to "print" (create) a PDF from many other file formats or from a range of pages. Another good, free product is CutePDF Writer.

These applications will appear in the list of printers. Simply select the one you want to use, tell it to print the document and page range you want, and it will then ask you to name the new file. In the context of printing at WIU, PDF printers allow you to transform documents into a file format that is acceptable to UPrint or that contain only the page range you need to print (i.e. just pages 3-8 of a 25 page article). You may download CutePDF Writer for free at: http://www.cutepdf.com/