Grant Hall Computer Lab
The graphics lab is located in Archie Grant Hall (GRA) 246. The lab is entirely Macintosh-based (though a single Windows computer is used to operate the printers) and is equipped with 25 workstations. Additionally, the lab houses four flatbed scanners with transparency adaptors, a slide scanner, a laser printer, a tabloid-sized color printer, and a large-format color printer. A wide range of graphics software is available, including the CS3 versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, GoLive, and Adobe After Effects.
For additional information about lab hours, software, and rules, please visit the Office of Information Technology site for Grant 246.
Lab Hours
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 6pm—10pm
- Wednesday: Closed
- Thursday: 6pm—10pm
- Friday: 1pm—5pm
- Saturday: 11am—7pm
- Sunday: 10am—7pm
Lab Policies
Keep desktops in good order. You are solely responsible for backing up your own work. At the end of each work session, make sure that you save your work to your network folder, your own external drive, or a portable media drive such as a flash drive or iPod. Please note the computers reset at start up and any files saved to the hard disk are erased.
Printing
In order to partially recover the cost of ink, paper, and maintenance, a slightly different pricing system is employed for the Epson 5000 and Epson 9000 printers. Large-format charges are two dollars per square foot of media used with a minimum charge of six dollars (a one-foot square print will necessarily take up three square feet of media). Prints to the slightly smaller Epson 5000 are $2 each. A lab monitor must be present in order to run prints on either of these two machines.
Choosing a printer
The large format printers together offer a wide range of choices for your printing needs, but if you are unsure which printer to choose, they may appear to offer too many choices. The Epson 9000 (the larger, freestanding printer) prints from a roll, and is capable of printing extremely large sizes very easily. However, these prints are more costly than those produced by the smaller Epson 5000, which utilizes single sheets of paper. While the lab provides an assortment of paper for printing, not all sizes and finishes of paper will be available at all times.
