Departmental Copier Program

Creative Communications leases copy machines at optimal prices and then provides a comprehensive, easy to use program to University departments. This program includes an appropriate copy machine for your departmental needs, paper, staples, toner, maintenance and repair.

Some of the benefits of the copier program:

Copies are charged back to individual budgets.
Copy volume is collected and recorded every month.
User codes are removed and added to your machine upon your request.
All billing and invoicing is handled by Creative Communications.
Creative Communications handles all purchase orders for copy machines.
Assistance is provided in identifying the best copier for your needs.
Creative Communications resolves any vendor issues.
Maintenance, repairs, paper, staples and toner are included.

How to Participate

Contact Creative Communications (copiers@u.washington.edu, 206-543-3233) and we will identify the best machine for your copying needs and order it for you. We will need you to provide us with the budget numbers that will be used on the new machine and contact names for each of the budget numbers. The Copier Coordinator will arrange for the user codes to be programmed into the new machine. The Coordinator will provide you and the contact people with a list of the user codes. You will also want to identify a Key Operator. The Key Operator will be responsible for ordering paper, placing service calls and notifying the Copier Coordinator when user codes or budget numbers need to be changed.

Ordering Paper

Creative Communications provides white, 20lb, letter and legal paper for use in the copy machine only. The amount of paper is based on the number of copies made on your machine.

You can order paper by emailing on an "as-needed" basis or you can arrange to have a regularly scheduled delivery

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Printing requires a standard 300dpi resolution to achieve better looking images.
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Recycling 1 ton of paper and cardboard saves 13 trees.
Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface.
Professional digital printing (using toner) primarily uses an electrical charge to transfer toner or liquid ink to the substrate it is printed on.
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Offset presses are primarily of two types: Sheet-fed offset and Web-fed offset.
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