Multifunctional printers
You can print, copy and scan with the multifunctional printers found in Oppari self-study space, libraries and computer lecture rooms. The multifunctional devices are located in Joensuu in Carelia, Agora, Borealis, Educa, Futura, Metria, and Natura campus buildings, and in Kuopio in Oppari in Canthia and Snellmania Library: see Joensuu campus map ja Kuopio campus map (links open in a new tab).
Printing queue name
All shared printers in UEF are connected to a network. When you need to print to paper, you should select a proper printing queue name. You will find the following printing queue in the Windows Printers listing:
Printing via email
You can also print small documents from your computer or mobile device via email as follows: send an email with the file to be printed as attached, from your UEF email address to the following address: kmext-print@uef.fi. Do not add an email subject or any text to the email body/message, but only add the To: address as follows: kmext-print@uef.fi, and attach the file to be printed to the email message.
However, printing via email is not recommended for printing long lecture notes, books or scientific articles, due to a big file size and special characters present in the file. These types of files should be printed by opening them first at an Oppari/UEF computer and printing them to the correct printing queue, being UEF Secure Print.
Fast printer login
Only you yourself have access to your own printing queue. Therefore, you need to login to a printer using the short version of your UEF username, meaning your username without the @uef.fi suffix.
UEF shared printers are equipped with RFID chip scanners that streamline the logging-in process. You can associate your UEF username and password with a student card, debit/credit card or any other card, electronic key that has an RFID chip. Associating a card with a printer does not harm the card in any way. You can create such an association by first scanning your card/electronic key with a printer’s RFID scanner, before entering your UEF username and password to the printer’s login screen. If your login attempt is successful, the association is completed and henceforth you can log in just by scanning your associated card/electronic key/mobile device at a RFID scanner.
See step-by-step printing instructions (pdf).
Prices
As a bachelor’s or master’s degree student or an exchange student you get 9€ to your printing account for each semester. The balance will be set to 9€ on 16.9. and 16.1., or as soon as you activate your study right. Any unused print quota will not be transferred to the next semester.
Black-and-white/grayscale prints and copies cost: 0,10€ / page (A4 or A3 page size).
Color prints and copies cost: 0,20€ / page (A4 or A3 page size).
Scanning is free of charge.
You can add printing balance from https://printing.uef.fi. Login with your UEF username and password. Do not use @uef.fi suffix after the username.
For more instructions, visit e-services. Select Tips and tricks from the menu and go to the section Printing, copying and scanning.
Note! Starting 2.10.2023, you can buy more printing credit only online. The cash registers in Oppari Kuopio and Oppari Joensuu will be shut down.
Troubleshooting
If you can't find the printing queue on an Oppari workstation, try to install it from
Software Center ”UEF Secure Print / Konica Minolta”.
If you can see the queue, and still cannot print, please contact IT servicedesk.
Make sure you have sent your document to the right printer, i.e. that you have chosen the correct printer or printing queue in the printing window of the program you're using. Read the detailed instructions for printing at the beginning of this page.
If you have a printing budget (prints are liable to charges) make sure that your printing account has enough balance to print the document. See the prices and instructions on adding money to your printing account above.
Please check that you did not turn off the computer from which you added the document to the printing queue. The computer must be on whilst printing. You can sign out from the computer, but do not shut it down completely.
Make sure that the paper hasn't jammed in the printer. If the paper has jammed inside the printer, there is a notification on the printer's screen. Follow the instructions on the screen to remove the paper from the printer.
If the paper hasn't jammed, there is a compatibility problem between the printer and the computer program. The printer hasn't been able to decode the document sent by the program. Solution:
- if the document isn't in PDF form, save it as a PDF by printing the document with Microsoft Print to PDF or Foxit Reader PDF Printer. These are virtual PDF printers that will save the document as a PDF file on the hard drive and ask the user to type a new PDF file name. Take note of the folder where you save the PDF file, and the name of the new file.
- open the recently created PDF document in Adobe Reader: open File Explorer with the keyboard shortcut Windows + E; open the folder where the file is located; activate the file; choose "Open with..." / "Avaa sovelluksessa..." by right-clicking or from the context menu; choose Adobe Reader.
- press Ctrl + P to open the Adobe Reader printing window. Click Advanced and when the Advanced Print Setup dialogue box opens, activate the Print As Image setting.
This is about a compatibility problem between Adobe Reader and the printer. The Print As Image setting cannot be used with electronically fillable PDF forms. The solution is to open the filled form in the Edge browser and print it from there.
- open File Explorer with the keyboard shortcut Windows + E; open the folder where the file is located; activate the file; choose "Open with..." / "Avaa sovelluksessa..." by right-clicking or from the context menu; choose Microsoft Edge.
- press Ctrl + P to open the Microsoft Edge printing window. Press Enter to begin printing.
Advanced printing features
You can find 2-sided printing from the first tab of the controller's user interface. From the 1-sided/2-sided/Booklet menu choose 2-sided printing (Kaksipuolinen tulostus).
From the Binding Location (Sidontakohta) menu you can choose how your print is read. Here Long Edge (Pitkä reuna) means that the 2-sided print is read like a book by turning the paper with the long edge first. Short Edge (Lyhyt reuna) means that it is read like a calendar by turning the paper with the short edge first.
The icon on the left shows how your document will be printed. If you don't need other finishing functions, accept your choices by clicking OK.
You can choose your print to be stapled. From the Staple/Collate/Group menu choose Staple + Collate (Nidonta & Lajittelu).
You can also choose the placement of the staple separately. As default it will be on the top left corner of your document. If you want to change the setting, choose Staple Position (Niitin paikka).
You can also print your document as a booklet. Then the machine will place the pages side by side on an A4 or A3 paper, folds it, and staples the papers with two staples in the middle, if your printer's finisher supports this stapling option.
The document can have a maximum of 60 pages. If there are more pages, the finisher will not fold the papers or staple them in the middle, but it will place the pages in the correct order like a booklet.
From the 1-sided/2-sided/Booklet menu in the middle of the first tab of the controller, choose Booklet (Vihkotulostus). From the Saddle Stitch Settings (Satulanidonnan asetukset) menu, choose Fold+Saddle Stitch (Taitto+Satulanidonta). Without this option activated the document will be printed with a booklet layout but without middle stitching.
Put the material that is suitable for the printer to the bypass tray (small hatch at the right end of the machine). On the touch screen the machine asks for the paper size. Choose the right size, for example A4. Press Next. Tell the type of the material in the bypass tray and press OK. It is important to input the thickness of the material/paper correctly, otherwise it will get stuck inside the printer.
In your computer program, move to the printing menu and then to the printer properties. Choose to show the printer configuration on the left by clicking the small printer icon at the top of the page. Click the bypass on the graphic printer icon. Accept by clicking OK and begin printing.
