Overview

RapidPrint™ is a software system that enables rapid access to study program materials for immediate point-of-sale printing and collection, or for consecutive online distribution of the same materials to students.

Students can quickly and easily review, select, and print specific study materials as they wish, compile them into a print job, and review as they need.

Administrators and academic staff can easily add study documents, lecture notes, book chapters, and other copyright materials as needed.

These items can be auto-deleted or made accessible at certain specified times (such as start or end of semester) and are easily managed by authorised staff.

The system is modular in nature and enables flexible implementation to suit various technical or administrative requirements that your institution may have.

RapidPrint™ offers the choice of two specific interfaces connected to the same data source:

• one for eReserve (an electronic reserve system for file and material distribution) and
• one for RapidPrint™ (immediate printing) to suit different student or administrative needs.

RapidPrint™ allows selection and compilation of materials into one print job for immediate printing, while eReserve allows students themselves to view and download the actual PDF file.

When using RapidPrint™ students can:

• search and drill down for study and unit resources by faculty/school/cost centre
• search by unit or course and see all materials currently available for that unit, course, or program
• add items (study resources) to their order and view the items in their print order, with the total cost displayed
• search for items and, with one click, easily add all displayed items to order
• be automatically logged out from their student account after inactivity—to prevent accidental or deliberate tampering with student orders.

Further,

• if an item is already in an order, the system won’t allow the accidental purchase of duplicates
• RapidPrint™ jobs are kept in the queue if unpaid and not released to the printers for 72 hours, at which time they will automatically expire.