Providing quality copy and print services to meet the needs of the Worcester State University community is our #1 goal. We would be happy to work with you to establish timelines and project management ensuring your printing and digital copying projects meet your quality expectations. In addition, if you have off-campus printing needs we provide brokering services, in order to maintain high standards and save the University time and money. Please be sure to build sufficient lead-time into the planning of printed work, if you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Submit a Publication or Design Request
Publications & Printing offer a large number of services. Please initiate any requests via a Quick Copy Request or Publication Design Request through Communications & Marketing Support.
*If you need an electronic version of your document, we are happy to scan and provide a PDF version for your use (handy for Bb/email/Files). **Campus standard is white paper, black ink, mounted on blue board and laminated.
Our production Copying/Printing units are more cost effective than department MFPs, thereby saving Worcester State over $200,000 annually!
The average turnaround time for standard quick copy is 24 – 48 hours – excluding nights, weekends, holidays, and when WSU is closed. Please initiate any requests via a Quick Copy Request through Communications & Marketing Support.
For specialized printing and design services, please initiate any requests via a Publication Design Request through Communications & Marketing Support.
Materials are printed in accordance with the Worcester State University Visual Identity Guidelines’ specifications for employees.
Also, Publications & Printing Services is unable to reproduce any material it deems in violation of Federal Copyright Law. The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, and later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying request if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law.
Copyright also protects original “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” which include two and three dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art. Examples of such works include, but are not limited to, graphics used in: Photographs, photomontages, posters, postcards etc. See additional information at: http://copyright.gov/circs/circ40.pdf. Graphics used in Worcester State copied/printed materials must be free of copyright issues and properly licensed. Requests to copy/print items, which ‘borrow’ graphics from alternate locations (e.g. internet, external printed materials) without securing copyright approval, will be denied until copyright approval form is completed.
SUBMIT COPYRIGHT APPROVAL
For more information on Title 17 and other copyright laws, please visit copyright.gov.
Department: Publications & Printing Services
