Beginning this semester, EC students can now send work to be printed in Schauerman Library from their smartphone or home computer.

“Nowadays you can do anything on your smartphone, so Wi-Fi printing sounds like a great alternative. It’s easy and fast,” Diane Quang, 19, double major said.

Students can now send documents to an online site that works in conjunction with the printing in the campus library.

“Before I would have to be here early then I need to just to get my work up and print,” Brandon Mack, 18, architecture major said.

The library has been refining this new feature since fall of last year in order to improve service while printing on campus.

“Vendors told us about the WiFi printing so we’ve been testing out the system to make it available for students to access at home or from their phones,” Noreth Men, a systems librarian, said.

The library has embraced a plethora of upgrades offered by vendors to keep up with modern technology.

“Moving away from the older way of printing will help make it easy for students,” Men said. In order to convey her point and popularize Wi-Fi printing at EC, she held workshops last week to show students how to create their own accounts for the service.

Student are required to sign up using an email of their choice by going to qciwifi.com and clicking the “webprint” button. They will then be prompted to enter their email address, type in the site code “ECC,” and click to send a validation code.

The validation code, which would be sent to the student’s email, would allow them to finish registering by entering it on qciwifi.com. From there, they will be able to create a password to their account and begin uploading files from their computers, flash drives, and SmartPhones.

“It’s about time the school did something to help the printing process,” Mack said. “I think it cool they are doing it. I use the Wi-Fi everyday.”

Students are reminded to write down the unique file ID code. This will allow them access to the document when signing from library print computers. From there, students can enter their unique ECC account to pay for the print job.

Mack said it is a better upgrade from the older system because it always shut down. “It should be nice, very nice.”

The process will allow printing to be faster in the library by cutting the time required to log onto the computers in the lab to send each print job.

“There are pros and cons to the new system,” Quang said. “But it’s definitely convenient for students.”