Printing services for students

All TAFE Queensland provided learning material and content accessed via the TAFE Queensland Library Network are provided under special licences for TAFE Queensland enrolled students and staff only.

Such contents are not to be shared with other people. Printing and reproduction limits apply to all copyright works, in most cases you can reproduce a maximum of 10% of text. Refer to the warning notice below for details.

Printing and associated costs are the same across all TAFE Queensland campuses.

At the start of each semester, every student will receive $10 credit added to their printing account.

Any current credit will be automatically carried over.

You can track your balance through TAFE Queensland's print management system PaperCut.

You can add money to your PaperCut account on any device by opening the PaperCut app.

Prices for copying are the same as printing depending on if the copy is in black and white or colour.

For extra printing you will be required to add more credit to your PaperCut account by entering your card details for payment in the 'Add credit' section of your PaperCut account.

Please find instructions below as some may be region specific.

You can access your PaperCut account on a TAFE Queensland device, such as the computers available for student use in our libraries. If you require assistance, please engage one of our staff members in your campus library.

Important information

Credit: After 18 months folloing your completion of student at TAFE Queensland, your account will be closed and any remaining credit forfeited.

Tax deductable printing: Printing costs might be tax-deductable in certain circumstances. You should check the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) website ot talk with a tax professional to see if you qualify.

How to print

Send the document to the printer (click on print), the printer is 'Find me print'.

On the printer:

• Scan your student card, if you don't have your card: manually enter your student number as your username and your password is your TAFE Queensland network password
• Press on release
• Select the document you wish to print from the list
• Press the print button.

Please note: Instructions for adding credit may vary slightly for your region.

To add funds, you need to acces your PaperCut account on any TAFE Queensland device or PC.

You will need to enter the details of either a Visa or Mastercard debit or credit card, or reloadable Visa or Mastercard.

Only add as much money as you will use during your studies at TAFE Queensland, as we are unable to offer refunds.

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Commonwealth of Australia

Copyright Act 1968

Notice about the reproduction of works and the copying of published editions

Warning

Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A court may impose penalties and award damages in relation to offences and infringements relating to copyright material. Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form.

Reproduction of works and copying of published editions

A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement.

Certain dealings with copyright will not constitute an infringement, including:

• a reproduction that is a fair dealing under the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act), including a fair dealing for the purposes of research or study; or
• a reproduction that is authorised by the copyright owner.

It is a fair dealing to make a reproduction for research or study, of one or more articles in a periodical publication for the same research or same course of study or, for any other work, of a reasonable portion of a work.

For a published work in hardcopy form that is not less than 10 pages and is not an artistic work, 10% of the number of pages, or one chapter, is a reasonable portion.

For a published work in electronic form only, a reasonable portion is not more than, in the aggregate, 10% of the number of words in the work.

More extensive reproduction may constitute fair dealing. To determine whether it does, it is necessary to have regard to the criteria set out in subsection 40(2) of the Act.