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Lately ITS has encountered numerous incidents involving Microsoft Office documents. If you are using the new version of Microsoft Office for Windows (Office 2007) on your personal computer, OR, if you receive files from users of Office 2007 (generally, most students with new computers), please refer to the following article posted earlier this year.

View the article here: http://blogs.lawrence.edu/its/2007/04/keeping_microsoft_office_docum.html

This article includes tips on how to keep Office documents compatible, and ITS feels that students, faculty, and staff may find it very useful as classes begin.

Faculty and Staff,

ITS wants to share an incredible offer - as part of the WAICU Adobe Purchase Program which Lawrence is a part of, faculty and staff are able to purchase Adobe software for home use at student discount pricing through Journey Education Marketing (JourneyEd), WAICU's designated reseller for Adobe products. This offer is for a limited time only and expires November 30, 2007. If you are thinking of purchasing Adobe software, now is the time! Click here for more information.

Information Technology Services is proud to announce the arrival of Print Management on campus - an initiative recommended by the Student Welfare Committee to reduce printed paper waste at Lawrence.

ITS believes the new printing system will help the environment as well as offer additional convenience to students. It will no longer be necessary for students to resend a document to print at another location if a printer becomes jammed or out of paper. Rather, print jobs may be retrieved from one of many Print Release Stations across campus.

What exactly is Print Management?
Print Management allows print jobs to collect in a print queue until released by the owner from a Print Release Station. Print jobs will remain in queue for 15 minutes; if jobs are not released within the allotted time frame, they will be automatically canceled. Authentication with a network password is required to release a print job. This security feature will ensure that print jobs may only be released by their owner. Print jobs may be reviewed and released from any Print Release Station on campus.

Print Management will be rolled out on Thursday, November 1. Implementation will most likely be completed by the close of Reading Period on Sunday, November 4.

For additional information including Print Release Station locations and how to utilize Print Management on a personal computer, refer to the ITS website on Print Management.

Please contact ITS if you have questions or if you encounter a problem using the Print Management system. Thank you!