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The Main Lab now features all 5K 27-inch displays. We’ve recently added 4 Apple Studio Displays with Nano-texture glass to give a matte-like finish that is particularly good for photographers. These are located at Stations 10, 15, 21, and 22.
Also, the Small Lab will be receiving a number of 4K displays in the next week or so that include a built-in colour calibrator. We are very pleased with the modern, high-quality experience we can now offer in our Labs.
There will be some exceptions to our normal service hours in the coming weeks. Here are the specifics (updated 2024-10-17):
* On these days, if you have issues with Card Access, speak to the Pod Team Office in CH D100. If there are technical problems in the computer labs, contact Arts IT. Equipment loans and printing will not be available.
Welcome (or Welcome Back, as the case may be)! We’ve made some improvements to our Labs over the Summer and more are coming in the near future. Here’s our Fall 2024 update:
We recently replaced all the computers in the Small Lab, meaning that every computer in both the Main and Small Labs runs on Apple Silicon. Almost all the computers in the Main Lab are running on Apple M2 or M3 processors for maximum performance. The three iMacs in the hallway outside the Main Lab still run on Intel processors, but they feature a minimum of 32 GB of RAM and Station 28 features a higher-end graphics processor and Nano-texture glass on the display.
This year’s booking schedule is a little less busy that normal, which means you will have better access for drop-in use, such as all Monday and Wednesday morning in the Fall Term. You can see the schedule for the current Term on our home page. It is also posted outside the main door of each Lab.
We are also updating the Small Lab, but because the computer displays we wanted for that space are no longer available, we are still sourcing alternatives. Thus, for the short term, the Small Lab will either be closed for drop-in use or will have only a few stations available. (The Instructor station can be used as a drop-in computer.) We expect this situation to be resolved by late September or early October. When it is done, the Small Lab will be filled with 27-inch displays and Mac mini M1 computers.
As we come to the end of the Winter Term and begin the Spring/Summer Term, you will want to pay attention to these important dates:
Lab staff will take additional vacation time in June, July, and August. These dates will be announced in late May. If you need services during those months (we’re looking at you, graduate students), let us know as soon as possible what your deadlines are so that we can create a schedule for all students to access our lab services in a timely manner.
The University is closed on Monday, February 19 and there are no classes for the rest of that week. Your technical staff will also be taking that week off, but you can still gain access to the Labs with your Unicard. If you require services such as equipment loans or photographic printing, you should arrange those by February 15 so as to avoid disappointment.
Yes, Lab staff are still working between the end of classes and the holiday closure of the University. Here are the details:
All files on Lab stations will be subject to deletion as of December 15. Files on the Lab Server are also be subject to deletion at that time, but we will try to keep those available until December 20.
We plan to run (mostly) regular service hours through December 21 (09:00–16:00 weekdays, excluding lunch). We will be closed from December 22 through January 1 and will reopen on January 2 at 09:00. The following days are the exceptions to those times:
As we will be doing some technical work during this period, not all stations or services may be available at all times. Please contact us in advance if you have time-sensitive work.
Here are the hours for services (including printing) for the last week of classes, December 4:
If additional times become available, we will post that on Mastodon and will try to update this page as well.
If your classes this Term have made you interested in paying Adobe to use their products, then now would be the time to subscribe. As part of their Black Friday Sale (which ends Friday, Nov. 24), you can get all Creative Cloud apps for $21/month on a one-year contract (there are penalties for cancelling early, as we describe on our help page on the topic, so just assume you’ll be paying the $262+tax). This is a savings of $5 per month.
If all you want are Photoshop and/or Lightroom, the regular Photography (20 GB) plan priced at $13/month for a year is a better bet. (They have tried to hide this option in favour of the $26/month plan with 1 TB of cloud storage, but click on the Compare Plans link and it will show up.)
We will have limited services during Fall Break. Here are the details:
There are two ways to laser print for users of the IAML:
If you want to print to the campus Student Printers, IT has a help page that describes how you can print via email (Black & White double-sided only), from a mobile device (phone, laptop), or from a public computer on campus.
Our computers right beside the campus Student printer (in AB611A, the hallway outside the Main Lab North door) have a printer named Student Printer that can print directly to these printers. Simply use the Print command from your app and select Student Printer. Since you are logged in to the computer, it will know to send the job under your name.
Most importantly, if you send it this way, it will default to printing in colour (this is by request from Art students). If you are only printing in Black & White, you can save money by changing the colour settings in the print dialog box. First, look for the Printer Options section, then click the > to reveal those options. Click on Printer Features (see screenshot below).
When you do, you will be presented with the option to change the Color Mode from Color to Black and White (see screenshot below). Click on the pop-up menu to change it, then click OK. You may now press the Print button to print in Black & White.
Payment for all print jobs to the student laser printers is by Unicard.
There is also a laser printer inside the IAML Main Lab. To send jobs to it, you use the IAML Colour Tabloid Laser in the Print dialog box in your app. In most cases, you can just send your print without specifying whether you want Colour or Black & White, as we will only charge you based on what comes out of the printer rather than the mode it was sent. In fact, we recently adjusted our prices to match the campus Student Printer prices but with a small bonus for those printing text-only, Black & White term papers, music notation files, or small drafting documents: those prints are just 5¢ per Letter-sized page (10¢ for Tabloid).
Payment for print jobs sent to the IAML Laser can be made in Cash (rounded to the nearest 5¢) or by Unicard (exact amount). Happy printing!
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