Overview

Through a partnership with Student Government and USF Information Technology, enhancements have been made to the free printing program on campus. Students are given an allotment of $3.00 per day to be used for printing on campus. Any amount over $3.00 daily can be printed using Bull Buck$

Helpful Printing Documentation links:



Printer Locations

Locations spanning four campuses are conveniently spaced to enable printing. Options include scanning, printing, copying, poster size, and 3-D printing. Future locations include the addition of 14 plotters for ease of printing larger documents.

Free Printer Locations

Through a partnership with Student Government and USF Information Technology, enhancements have been made to the free printing program on campus.  Students are given an allotment of $3.00 per day to be used for printing on campus. Any amount over $3.00 daily can be printed using Bull Buck$.

The benefits of these changes are:

• Students can use their free prints allocations for copies at all of the locations unless otherwise noted.
• Students can print from their personal computers.
• Students can print via email attachment.
• Students can print to the free print locations from within the USF Application Gateway.
• Students can continue to print using Bull Bucks once their daily free prints allocation is reached.
• Black & White printing is only 11 cents per page.
• Color printing is only 22 cents per page.


BSN 2nd floor, old building

COPH 1038

CAMLS 333

EDU Lobby

ENB Hall of Flags

ENG 105

Holly M

HUB 100

IDR 107

LIB 113, LIB 2nd Floor Lobby

JPH Residence Hall Lobby

MDD 251, MDD 302, MDD 404, MDD 504

MDL 1029

MDT 1020

MHC 1200B

Marshall Center Computer Lab 1st Floor

Marshall Center Lobby [by vending machines]

MDA Lobby – USF Health The WELL

MDC Shimberg Health Sciences Library

RCE 107

SVC 2nd Floor Lobby
3D printers:  CMC 153 Audio Visual Center (no free prints), Shimberg Library
Plotters:  LIB, MSC Student Gov't open use lab, Shimberg Library, MDD 251




ALN 241 Honors Lab
CMC 209 classroom
PCD 2031		CPR 121 classroom
CWY 300 ROTC lab
SCA 222




LIB Tampa LIbrary Computer Lab (First Floor)
Shimberg Health Sciences Library		Marshall Center SG Computer Lab (1st & 2nd Floors)




St. PetersburgSarasota Manatee
DAV 107 Success Center 
Nelson Poynter Library 		Information Commons
SMCA 210
SMCA 303
SMCC 203
Mote Marine Lab



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Mobile Printing and Printing from your Computer

Students are able to print via email from their personal devices directly to a USF printer. (limited file types).

How to Print to a Pharos Printer

There are two options for printing.

  • Email an attachment
  • Installation package on computer

Email an attachment:

  1. From your USF email address send attachment to:
    1. BWPrint@usf.edu for Black and White prints
    2. ColorPrint@usf.edu for Color prints
  2. Go to any Pharos printer, swipe USF ID card to release the print.

Limited file types



Microsoft® Word
Microsoft® Excel
Microsoft® PowerPoint
Microsoft® Visio
Microsoft® Outlook
OpenDocument
Comma Separated Values
Adobe Portable Document Format
Rich Text Format
Text files
Image formats		.doc | .docx   | .dot
.xls | .xlt |   .xlsx | .xltx | .xltm | .xlsm
.ppt | .pptx   | .pptm |.pot |.pps |.potx | .ppsx
.vsd | .vss |   .vst | .vdx | .vsx | .vtx |  .vdw
.msg | .eml
.odt | .ods |   .ott | .odp
.csv
.pdf
.rtf
.txt
.jpg | .jpeg   | .gif | .png | .bmp


Installation package on computer:

To print from your computer to a USF printer without emailing an attachment, you must first install a printer package to your computer. Choose your installation package from the list of printers. Follow directions on the installation package page.

To print a document follow these steps:

  1. Open the document using the appropriate application.
  2. Print the document choosing the appropriate PHAROS installed printer i.e. USF_Ricoh_Universal

And visit Bull Buck$ to add funds.

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Printer Installation Packages

Printer Installation Instructions:

Printer Drivers:

Large-Format Printer Drivers (Windows 64 bit only)

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USF Print Shop

University of South Florida and ProCopy have partnered to offer students and faculty a full range of business services to assist with their everyday needs. The USF Print Shop can produce crisp, clean copies, prints, professional binding and finishing. They can also help with quality prints of posters, signs, banners, postcards, business cards, program booklets, brochures, and traditional-sized photos. For more information visit the USF Print Shop.

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