Generally

Each student is limited to 500 pages per semester (Fall and Spring semesters) on the Law Library computer lab printers. This policy does not affect Westlaw and Lexis printers. Students may use the pay-for UniPrint system at any University Computing Center. Click here for hours and locations

Acceptable Use Guidelines

All printing is subject to the School of Law's acceptable use guidelines, as follows:

Acceptable Uses

• Law school related word processing documents, spreadsheets and/or presentations;
• Résumés (limited to a couple copies at a time);
• Research-related Web pages;
• Short e-mail messages (limited to one page or less in length).

Unacceptable Uses

• Westlaw and/or LexisNexis research (should be directed to Westlaw or LexisNexis printers);
• Recreational Web pages, such as stock market reports, sports statistics, travel or shopping information, etc. (anything not law school-related);
• Multiple copies of law school related documents, including announcements or flyers for student organization-sponsored events. (Print one and make photocopies);
• Multiple drafts (Do your editing on the screen);
• Print-outs for friends or family members;
• Any other non-law school projects.

Exceptions

Exceptions to the general printing limit will be granted to the following students in the following manners.

Student Organization Officers, Editors and Members

Editors, officers and members of student organizations, including the University of Louisville Law Review, Journal of Law & Education, Student Bar Association, and Moot Court Board, may and should use the organization's office printer(s) for organization-related work.

Research Assistants

Faculty research assistants will be permitted access to a printer in the Faculty Resource Center. This printer should only be used for printing related to one's work as a research assistant.

"The Printer Ate My Print Job."

Refunds of printing credit will only be granted if a student is charged for print jobs that do not print, or his/her prints are sufficiently flawed as to make them objectively unusable. All such determinations shall be made by a member of the IT staff. To receive a refund for an aborted or flawed print job, the student must report the problem to the Law Library Circulation Desk immediately. Refunds will be granted only for the number of flawed pages, and not for the entire print job.

Using PaperCut

PaperCut is our print monitoring software. Each student may log in to PaperCut while on campus using his/her Lawnet user name and password (see illustration below), to view a summary of one's account, a usage graph and individual environmental impact (see illustration below). Students may also transfer credit to any other student. To transfer credit, you must know the user name (e.g., "abcedf01") of the person to whom you wish to transfer credit.

You can also view a detailed transaction history and activity log for your account.

Log in to PaperCut here.