Law Student Printing Guide
Printing Overview
Public Law Student Printing
As of Autumn 2026, the Law School has implemented the University Print Program and has deployed new printers for students.
As a student, you can print from your personal laptops to public printers at the Law School from the wired or Wi-Fi networks. To use these printers, you must install the Secure Print queue. See Mobility Print guides below:
Printing Methods
Windows - Mobility Print Setup
About Mobility Print
Mobility Print uses your local applications to generate the print jobs. It will allow for more customization such as duplex printing, page ranges, etc.
Setup Secure Print
- Go to Mobility Print- Windows setup
- Click the Green Button to Download Mobility Print
- Run the .exe file downloaded.
- Select your preferred language
- Accept the EULA
- Check the Box for Secure Print
- Enter your CNetID and Password
- Click Install and Finish
Using Secure Print
- In any application, open the document you would like to print
- Microsoft Office apps, Web Browsers, Adobe PDF's, etc.
- Submit the print job
- Typically Ctrl+P or File>Print
- Select SecurePrint as the desired printer
- This queue will be available at all Law School Printers
- Customize your settings
- Double Sided, B&W/Color, Page Ranges, Collate, etc.
- Click Print to submit the print Job to the queue
- Go to any Law School Printer and scan your badge on the printer to login
- The first badge scan requires you to enter your CNet credentials to link your badge to your CNetID
- Click the Printer queue
- Select your print jobs and release them from the queue to print them out.
MacOS - Mobility Print Setup
About Mobility Print
Mobility Print uses your local applications to generate the print jobs. It will allow for more customization such as duplex printing, page ranges, etc.
Setup Secure Print
- Go to Mobility Print- MacOS setup
- Click the Green Button to Download Mobility Print
- Run the .dmg file downloaded.
- Double Click the PaperCut Mobility Print Client.pkg
- Accept the EULA
- Click Install and authenticate with your personal laptop credentials
- Check the Box for Secure Print
- Finish and close the installer
**If you receive an authentication error, follow these directions
- Open KeyChain Access.app on your Mac
- Look for SecurePrint
- Verify the Account field is your CnetID.
Using Secure Print
- In any application, open the document you would like to print
- Microsoft Office apps, Web Browsers, Adobe PDF's, etc.
- Submit the print job
- Typically Cmd+P or File>Print
- Select SecurePrint as the desired printer
- This queue will be available at all Law School Printers
- Customize your settings
- Double Sided, B&W/Color, Page Ranges, Collate, etc.
- Click Print to submit the print Job to the queue
- Go to any Law School Printer and scan your badge on the printer to login
- The first badge scan requires you to enter your CNet credentials to link your badge to your CNetID
- Click the Printer queue
- Select your print jobs and release them from the queue to print them out.
Web Print
About Web Print
Web Print is a web-based printing system that will allow you to select the printer you would like to print to and upload your document to have it printed. Web Print supports popular document formats such as .pdf, .docx, .xlsx, etc. Web Print also supports common image formats, including JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and BMP.
Using Web Print
- Navigate to https://papercut.uchicago.edu:9192/user and log in using your CNetID and password
- Click Web Print on the left-hand column
- Click Submit a Job
- Select the printer you would like to use. Each Printer has default settings that cannot be changed
- SecureDoubleSide - Prints double sided
- SecurePrint - Single Sided Color or Black and White
- SecurePrint_BW - Black & White only
- SecureSingleSide - Single Sided only
- Drag the File you would like to print inside the box, or Select the file you would like to print using the Upload Document button
- Click Upload & Complete
- Go to any Law School Printer and scan your badge on the printer to login
- The first badge scan requires you to enter your CNet credentials to link your badge to your CNetID
- Click the Printer queue
- Select your print jobs and release them from the queue to print them out.
Printing Information
Printing Credentials
Authenticate with your CNetID and CNet Password
Printer Information
You can access your print account from the web while using the Law School wired or Wi-Fi network. CNet credentials are used to access the web interface at: https://papercut.uchicago.edu:9192/user. All students are given a $250.00 credit per academic year.
Secure Print
All Printers are now on Secure Print. Secure Print holds the print job in a personal queue until you release the job at any Law School printer. Jobs are not charged until they are released from the queue. Jobs are automatically cleared after 24 hours if they are left in the queue.
Print Job Cost:
- $0.06 per printed side when printing on 8½ x 11-inch paper to a B/W printer
- $0.18 per printed side when printing on 8½ x 11-inch paper to the color printer
- Scanning: Free
** Duplex print jobs count as two sheets**
** Pricing subject to change without notice**
Printer Locations:
- 2nd Floor Reading Room (below the staircase)[2x Printers]
- 2nd Floor Reserve Room [2x Printers]
- 4th Floor
- 5th Floor
- 6th Floor
- Vending (near the Courtroom/Auditorium)
- Other compatible printers on Campus.
Printing Errors
If you experience any issues and would like to request a refund, please email printing@lists.uchicago.edu
If you have any further questions after reading this packet, please contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@law.uchicago.edu, by phone at 773-834-5300, or stop by in person to the Help Desk on the 3rd floor.
Other Printing
Clinic Printing
There are two options to print. WebPrint, which does not require driver installations but has limited customization. Or via the PaperCut App
WebPrint Method:
Access via this URL: https://lawprint.uchicago.edu:9192/app and follow the instructions on the WebPrint section at the bottom of this page.
The Legacy WebPrint System uses your CHICAGOLAW credentials, NOT CNet. Your CHICAGOLAW Password is your StudentID#+L@WS (e.g. 12345678L@WS)
PaperCut App Method
There are two steps to setup printing.
- Install the PaperCut Print Client
- Map the printers locally on your laptop
1. Install Installing PaperCut:
Apple macOS
- Go to https://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/life/IT/guides and download the macOS CHICAGOLAW print client installer
- Download the entire folder from Box
- Extract the zipped folder
- Drag the PCClient icon (green icon) into the Applications folder
- Open the PCClient program by right-clicking it and selecting Open
- You will see a security prompt, Click Cancel
- Go to system Preferences > Security and Privacy > Click Open Anyways
- Once the program is running, a login box will appear asking for your username and password. Enter your CHICAGOLAW credentials.
- If you would like the print client to remember your credentials, check the Remember my identity box.
By default, this program is not set to automatically start. To set this program to start up automatically, follow these steps:
- Open System Preferences from the Apple menu
- Select Users & Groups
- Select your account, and go to the Login Items tab
- Click the + button and browse to locate the PCClient application
- The PCClient application should appear on the startup item list
**The print client installation is complete, but printers have to be manually added on each laptop.**
Windows
** The account used to install this software must have local administrator privileges.**
** If any UAC (User Account Control) boxes appear during install, select “ALLOW”.**
- Go to https://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/life/IT/guides and download the Windows CHICAGOLAW print client installer
- Download the entire folder from Box
- Extract the .zip file
- Once the extraction completes, Open the PART 1 folder and run the .reg file
- Open the PART 2 folder and double-click the “client-local-install.exe” file
- Once the setup screen appears, click Next
- Click the I accept the agreement button, Click the Next button
- Click the next two Next buttons
- Leave the checkmark next to Launch client and verify my identity and click Finish
- When the installation is complete, a login box will appear asking for your CHICAGOLAW credentials
- If you would like the print client to remember your credentials, check the Remember my identity box
- After installing the client, your computer MUST be rebooted.
- The reboot should be done before trying to map any print queues
**The print client installation is complete, but printers have to be manually added on each laptop.**
2. Mapping Printers
Apple macOS
| Address: | Queue: | Name: |
| pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu | clk_prntr_06 | Clinic 2nd Floor Printer (Print Room) |
| pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu | clk_prntr_09 | Clinic 2nd Floor COLOR ONLY Printer (K211) |
| pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu | clk_prntr_10 | Clinic 1st Floor Printer (K111)(IJ ONLY) |
- Open System Preferences from the Apple menu
- Open Print & Scan and click +
- You may need to select Add Printer or Scanner… from here
- A new window will appear, select the IP tab at the top
- On this tab, there are four items to select or enter, Address, Protocol, Queue, and Name. Earlier in this guide, under the Law School Printer section, there are lists of printer names. Use the information from the appropriate list to complete this step.
- Under the Address field, enter the Address from the appropriate list
- Under Protocol, select Line Printer Daemon – LPD
- Under the Queue field, enter the Queue from the appropriate list
- Under the Name field, enter the Name from the appropriate list
- Once everything is properly entered, click Add to finalize the install
- The printer should now be listed under Printers & Scanners
Windows
| Printer Name: |
| \\pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu\clk_prntr_06 |
| \\pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu\clk_prntr_09 |
| \\pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu\clk_prntr_10 (IJ ONLY) |
- Click the Windows button in the Bottom-Right corner, Click the Settings button
- Click Devices
- Click Add a Printer or Scanner
- Click the “printer that I want isn’t listed” button
- Click Select a shared printer by name
- Under the Law School Printer section in this guide, there are lists of the printer names. Use the information from the appropriate list to complete this step.
- Type in the Printer Name from the appropriate list in the field
- Click the Next button
- When a warning box appears named Do you trust this printer, select Install driver
- If you see any additional prompts stating that the installation will run as an administrator, select OK.
- If prompted for credentials use
- CHICAGOLAW\>CNetID<
- CHICAGOLAW Password
- If prompted for credentials use
- Please wait a moment as the driver is downloaded and installed.
- Click Next through the next few windows. Click Finish to finalize the installation.
- The printer should now be listed under Devices and PrintersLaw Clinic Students - Windows
Journal Printing
There are two options to print. WebPrint, which does not require driver installations but has limited customization. Or via the PaperCut App
WebPrint Method:
Access via this URL: https://lawprint.uchicago.edu:9192/app and follow the instructions on the WebPrint section at the bottom of this page.
PaperCut App Method
There are two steps to setup printing.
- Install the PaperCut Print Client
- Map the printers locally on your laptop
1. Install Installing PaperCut:
Apple macOS
- Go to https://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/life/IT/guides and download the macOS CHICAGOLAW print client installer
- Download the entire folder from Box
- Extract the zipped folder
- Drag the PCClient icon (green icon) into the Applications folder
- Open the PCClient program by right-clicking it and selecting Open
- You will see a security prompt, Click Cancel
- Go to system Preferences > Security and Privacy > Click Open Anyways
- Once the program is running, a login box will appear asking for your username and password. Enter your CHICAGOLAW credentials.
- If you would like the print client to remember your credentials, check the Remember my identity box.
By default, this program is not set to automatically start. To set this program to start up automatically, follow these steps:
- Open System Preferences from the Apple menu
- Select Users & Groups
- Select your account, and go to the Login Items tab
- Click the + button and browse to locate the PCClient application
- The PCClient application should appear on the startup item list
**The print client installation is complete, but printers have to be manually added on each laptop.**
Windows
** The account used to install this software must have local administrator privileges.**
** If any UAC (User Account Control) boxes appear during install, select “ALLOW”.**
- Go to https://www.law.uchicago.edu/students/life/IT/guides and download the Windows CHICAGOLAW print client installer
- Download the entire folder from Box
- Extract the .zip file
- Once the extraction completes, Open the PART 1 folder and run the .reg file
- Open the PART 2 folder and double-click the “client-local-install.exe” file
- Once the setup screen appears, click Next
- Click the I accept the agreement button, Click the Next button
- Click the next two Next buttons
- Leave the checkmark next to Launch client and verify my identity and click Finish
- When the installation is complete, a login box will appear asking for your CHICAGOLAW credentials
- If you would like the print client to remember your credentials, check the Remember my identity box
- After installing the client, your computer MUST be rebooted.
- The reboot should be done before trying to map any print queues
**The print client installation is complete, but printers have to be manually added on each laptop.**
2. Mapping Printers
Apple macOS
| Address: | Queue: | Name: | To be used by: |
| pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu | jrn_prntr_01 | jrn_prntr_01 | Shared Printer for all Journals |
| pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu | jrn_prntr_02 | jrn_prntr_02 | Shared Printer for all Journals |
Windows
| Printer Name: | To be used by: |
| \\pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu\jrn_prntr_01 | Shared printer for all journals |
| \\pubprint.chicagolaw.uchicago.edu\jrn_prntr_02 | Law Review ONLY |