Tech Support Services
Supporting Temple's Sustainability Initiative: Duplex Printing
In February 2008, President Hart announced the creation of Temple's Office of Sustainability dedicated to help create a culture and expectation of environmentally responsible action at all levels of Temple University.
The College of Education seeks to support this important initiative. One small step we can make towards a more "green" campus is to reduce/reuse/recycle whenever possible. Thus, we encourage our faculty and staff to "Think Before You Print" and to reduce the amount of paper-based waste we produce through the use of scanning and electronic distribution and storage. In Summer 2008, we hope to make it even easier for our faculty and staff to conserve paper through default duplex (double-sided) printing.
Making Double-Sided Printing the Default
Faculty and staff offices feature either an HP Laserjet 1320 or Brother 5250DN printer. Both of these printers support duplex printing. During the summer, a technician will visit each office and modify the default printer settings to print on both sides. Whenever you print, regardless of what program you are printing from or what type of document you are printing, your documents will automatically print on both sides. Just think, without taking any additional action, the College could see a reduction in paper use by 1/2!
How to Select Single-Sided Printing
We understand that in certain circumstances, like submissions to journals or dissertations, you may need to print single-sided documents. Instructions for how to override the duplex-printing option are linked below. Of course, we hope you'll choose to use single-sided printing only when required.
- HP Laserjet 1320: Selecting Single-Sided Printing [pdf]
- Brother 5250DN: Selecting Single-Sided Printing [pdf]
Duplex Printing on Campus
Beginning in Fall 2008, the computer labs and centers on campus will also be changing to default duplex-printing. As a result, instructors should expect to see more double-sided prints of assignments and papers. If it is important to you that students use single-sided printing for your assignments, please be sure to specify that in your syllabus and assignments. Lab assistants will be available to help students select single-sided printing for specific jobs, but, as with our offices, we encourage instructors to support this paper-saving iniative and allow students to take advantage of double-sided prints whenever possible.
