Printing to a Xerox printer from a personally owned (BYOD) device

Personally owned devices, also known as Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)s, can print to University-owned Xerox printers, once they roll out to their campus location, using the instructions below.

Instructions 

Set-up and print

1. iOS 

2. Using your Safari browser, go to Print.maine.edu and sign in with your UMS credentials.
3. Near the bottom of the page, click "View in Desktop mode".
4. Click on the Install BYOD Print on the left hand menu.
5. Click the Download button to download the Profile.
6. Open Settings, General, Profile. Select the PaperCut Mobility Print for iOS
7. Click Install in the upper right.
8. You print as you normally would with your Operating system and the job is held until you release it at the printer. See Releasing Jobs section below.

Android

1. Using your Chrome browser, go to  Print.maine.edu and sign in with your UMS credentials.
2. Click on the Install BYOD Print on the left hand menu.
3. Click the button to Install or Update the Mobility Print App.
4. Click Install in the upper right.
5. You print as you normally would with your Operating system and the job is held until you release it at the printer. See Releasing Jobs section below.

MacOS or Windows laptop (non-domain joined)

1. Go to Print.maine.edu and log in with your UMS credentials.
2. Click on the Install BYOD Print on the left hand menu.
3. Follow the instructions for your Operating System

After set-up, you will no longer have a client that pops up when printing. You print as you normally would with your Operating system and the job is held until you release it at the printer. See Releasing Jobs section below.

Chromebook

1. Go to PaperCut Mobility Print Cloud Print link
2. Follow the two-step instructions to install the Install and Run Mobility Print and give it some time to complete printer queue installation
3. After the message appears in the window indicating it installed your queues, you can print by pressing Ctrl + P, then see the Releasing Jobs section below.
   • WARNING: In the Print Dialogue window that appears, you may need to click See more to see the UMS-BYOD-FindME queue that gets installed

Linux (and others)

1. In a browser (Chrome recommended) go to print.maine.edu/user
2. Log in with your PaperCut credentials (same as your UMS or Copy Card)
3. Select Web Print from the left navigation pane
4. Click Submit a Job
5. Select the number of copies and which account to charge 
6. Click Upload Documents
7. Click Upload from computer
8. Select the file and click Open
9. Wait at least 10 seconds (or for some formats, a green check will appear over the icon for the file in WebPrint) to make sure the file has finished uploading
10. Click Upload Complete
11. Once it shows "Held in a queue", go to the printer and release the job. See Releasing Jobs section below for instructions.

Releasing Jobs

1. Go to the Xerox printer and swipe your campus OneCard to authenticate to the printer
2. Click Print Release
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3. Select the checkbox on the job(s) you want to release and then click Print
   • OR click the > to the right of the job to review and confirm job details such as the account to be charged, color or black and white, and duplex or single-sided.
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   • Then click Print.
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       • Note: If you are authorized to use Shared Accounts and are printing from a University Managed macOS or Windows device, you will receive an insufficient fund error if you try to print without selecting an account to charge to either from the job details or from the PaperCut Client. See User with access to Shared Account for a department receives an "insufficient funds" error when going to release the job at the printer

Environment

• Xerox
• PaperCut Pay-for-print

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