Printing services

Students and employees have the opportunity to print out documents they need for their studies or employment at the TU. Please feel free to use the pool rooms at the Hans-Sommer-Straße and Pockelsstraße . Both locations have printers available for black/white and color printing, and you also have the option of using the large-format printers (from A2 to A0). Otherwise, you can also print from home.

The prerequisite for printing is the existence of a print account in the accounting system.
If you have never printed before:
The print account is created automatically as soon as you log on to the PaperCut accounting system website (only accessible from the TU network or via VPN) with your GITZ identifier (GITZ-Kennung):
https://rzprtacc.rz.tu-bs.de:9192/

Further information and instructions can be found in the following links.

Manuals Workstations and Rooms List of Printers

Windows

Papercut: Manual Software

Printing driver (PPD): Manual Software

Attention: please do not install new large format printers with the above PPDs. Manual

Linux

Papercut: Manual Software

Printing driver (PPD): Manual Software

macOS

Papercut: Manual Software

Printing driver (PPD): Manual Software

To ensure that the offer for printing and plotting is used in a meaningful way, the Gauss IT Center charges fees for all printed products.

They serve as a regulator, are therefore relatively low and essentially cover the cost of materials.

The web pages on printing costs provide you with a comprehensive overview of your account balance as well as the print jobs you generate and their costs.
In particular, you'll find everything you need to know about your printing costs account, how the whole process works, and what the printouts cost.

As a user, i.e. as a student or institute employee, you can:

view all expenses and deposits
check the calculation of your print jobs and thus completely understand your account balance
switch from payment by the institute to personal payment if necessary (only as an employee assigned to an institute).
send print jobs directly with WebPrinting

As an administrator you can:

request the creation of a print account for your institution.
view all accounts of your institution or department.
set up print permissions for employees of your institution for the accounts you manage, change the permissions or revoke them.

Contact your local IT-Service-Desk in a timely manner if you find that printers or plotters are malfunctioning, or want to complain about printouts.

Further informations: List of Print- and Mediaservices

As a student, you receive a financial subsidy for your print account, the so-called teaching and learning materials subsidy.
The amount and validity period of this subsidy amount was changed as of 01.10.2020.

Starting with the winter semester 2020/21, first semester students (Bachelor and Master) will receive a one-time credit of 20,00 EUR to their print account.
If you are already in a higher semester, your print account was still credited with a one-time payment of 10.00 EUR in WS 20/21.
There will be no further allowances under the current regulations.

This credit will remain valid until the end of your studies. Unused grant print credits expire at the end of the study period.
In addition, you still have the possibility, e.g. if you have used up your grant credit, to add credit to your print account yourself via TUcard without cash at one of our print account transfer machines.

At the end of your studies, this additional credit can be booked back onto your TUcard.

Keep printing costs under control. The overviews on the printing costs page of our printing system will help you to do this. On this page you can:

Control print jobs
Check bookings
View the account balance
Create reports

Filter masks help you to create job lists, e.g. according to time periods, to search specifically for print jobs or for job types, e.g. "black and white,".

To the print cost overview (Only accessible from the TU network.)

WebPrinting, also called online printing, offers you the possibility to print directly from your browser without installing a printer first. This means that printing is driverless, so there is no need to download and install printer drivers. The PaperCut client is also not required. So all you need is a web browser of your choice, such as Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or Safari.
WebPrinting thus also supports mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

For online printing, you only need to log in to the PaperCut web interface and can then upload the PDF documents to be printed.
The documents are always printed in DIN A4. However, other formats can also be uploaded. These will then be printed scaled to DIN A4.

Advantages of WebPrinting:

No installation of printer drivers necessary
No printer installation required
PaperCut client not required
Only Internet browser (e.g. Firefox or Google Chrome) required
Compatible with mobile devices such as tablet and smartphone

Notes and limitations:

Mobile devices must be connected to the Eduroam wifi.
Alternatively, a connection must be established via VPN.
The document must be in PDF format, or converted to PDF before printing
All printers currently enabled for WebPrinting use environmentally friendly recycled paper.
The print settings are restricted.

More details in the manual.

Further informations To Web-Printing

Inquiries and orders are received and processed by the hardware workshop via the e-mail address rz-hww(at)tu-braunschweig.de. The hardware workshop is open for any questions regarding your project and will be happy to advise you. You can find more information here:

Information for 3D-Printing

Please also check our disruption blog for the current availability of the laminating service.

Please send us your order by e-mail to the following address: laminate(at)rzotrs.rz.tu-bs.de. Be sure to send the email from your TU mail account for authentication purposes. *

We need the following information from you:

User ID:
full name:
Format: A0 or oversize (>120 cm)?
Quantity:
Billing via: Personal account? Institute account?
If institute account: Which institution?
What else you would like to tell us:

It is best to copy the text, this saves unnecessary copying.

Afterwards you can hand in your printout in the hardware workshop, Gauss IT Center, room 013. If there is no staff there, please contact the IT Service Desk in room 015.

It is recommended to use matte paper of 130g/m2 thickness, as smooth surfaces (e.g. photo paper) and low paper thickness (e.g. draft paper) unnecessarily increase the error rate during lamination and may render the poster unusable. We will be happy to advise you in advance.

For more information about lamination service, please click here or see our service catalog.

* If you have any problems with this or your password has expired, please contact the IT-Service-Desk.

Printing services

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Central Campus

Service hours of IT-Service-Desk

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