Saturday, April 18, 2009

Remote or Laptop Printing

Is your home printer not working and you need to print your airplane tickets or your kids homework? No problem, just send your file to the Santa Clara City Library and pick it up within four hours (when the Library is open).
The Santa Clara City Library has added wireless printing capability. There are no drivers to install or software to load. Visitors can easily send print jobs from anywhere inside or outside the library and retrieve them from the Library’s Pinnacle Pay-for Print workstation in the copy rooms. Print jobs are held for four hours. It’s simple. . just follow the instructions below.

Go to the website
http://www.printspots.com/


Select: US, CA, Santa Clara, SC City Library
Select Use this Printer for B&W or Choose Another Printer (for Color)
Under the heading Document or Web Page, you will select your document for printing in one of two ways:
1. To print a web-based document, simply copy the URL (web address) and paste it here.
2. To select a document from your laptop or PC click on Browse. To print a document you are currently working on, it will need to be saved first.

Under the heading Enter Your Network ID for Document Pickup you will enter a User ID of your choosing.

The next heading Document Options is for selecting additional options.

Select Next. Your print job will appear in the tracking center on the right . Click on Print to send the file to the Santa Clara Library Pay-for-Print Stations on any of the Copy Rooms.

To obtain printouts, enter your User ID from above at the Pay-for-Print Station in the Library.