• Print & Plot - Central printing service

  • Students and employees of the KIT can print A4 and A3 documents as well as large formats up to 899 mm short edge.
    ★ Smart address: scc.kit.edu/printundplot

The P&P portal provides you with the latest news, quick access to my Print & Plot (account, status, webPRINT), the FAQ topics "Direct Printing" and "PDF Printer Driver" and the FAQ home page [★ scc.kit.edu/pp-faq], as well as the P&P service description.
Additional services are available under "Print services" → " Print & Plot - Related services".

P&P News

16.03.26: Changes to web smart addresses/URLs

To ensure consistency in the English translation of our website, some short URLs containing English words have been reassigned for the English pages, and the German short URLs have been adjusted accordingly ("my" → "mein", etc.). We appreciate your understanding.
WORK IN PROGRESS(!), but please don’t hesitate to let us know if you notice any errors—thank you very much!

 

19.12.25: UPDATE: Users of Affinity Designer

The cause of the error has been identified and the problem has been resolved. We can once again recommend the use of our large format printers without reservation!
 

25.11.2025: It has repeatedly been found that posters created with Affinity Designer and then exported to PDF format are printed in unsatisfactory quality on our large-format printers.
A typical error is the printing of double (parallel) lines in vector objects, but sometimes also in embedded bitmaps in posters with strong graphic content (architecture posters).

 

06.11.25: Redesign of the Print & Plot websites: my Print & Plot

This week, the Print & Plot websites are being reorganized. With the introduction of my Print & Plot (★ scc.kit.edu/myprintandplot), you will soon be able to access all personalized services (print account inquiry, print job status, webPRINT) on a single website with just one login. You can switch between functions using tabs.

 

Please use the “Logout” function in the top right corner when you leave my Print & Plot.

 

As part of the changeover, all other websites related to P&P that were previously managed separately will also be gradually restructured or consolidated and will then be found in the “FAQ / Help” section.

 

 

My Print & Plot

 

 

Flyers from Print & Plot

04.1 Printing at SCC (British Flag PDF, 136 kB)
04.3 webPRINT (British Flag PDF, 108 kB)
04.4 Large Format Printers (British Flag PDF, 136 kB)
04.7 OU-Printers (British Flag PDF, 148 kB)

 

 

Service description

General information

Print orders can be sent around the clock (24/7). Print output only takes place during Print & Plot's opening hours! In certain cases, there may be delays in output.

Students can only use the central large format printers on Campus South.

This service may not be available during the maintenance times specified by the SCC.

 

Advice

The Print & Plot HelpDesk provides support with technical questions and problems; advice on design aspects cannot be provided.

A description of the services and possible uses of the printing service can be found in the "Printing & Printers" section of the "P&P" website.

 

Organizational requirements

  • KIT user account of the type ab1234 or uabcd.
  • Authorization to use the central printers of Print & Plot (automatic for students and KIT employees). For "Guest & Partner" accounts only in consultation with the management of the respective institution and subsequent activation by the ITB (IT representative).
  • Students must pay in advance without cash ("P&P" printing account) ↔ KIT-Card system.
  • Price list of the current printing costs

 

Technical requirements

  • Standard PC (standard software and network connection) → Service B
  • A3/A4 documents can be sent directly from the application (direct printing) under Apple macOS and Windows after setting up the central printer.
  • A3/A4 PDF and PS documents can also be sent via browser using webPRINT to the central printers.
  • Large formats can only be uploaded to the large format printers as single-sided PDFs and only via webPRINT!

 

Authorizations and access at a glance:

Campus Printer (UNC path name) Students uabcd KIT staff ab1234 Guests & partners1 ab1234
South CS-A3_A4_SW-Zentraldrucker2

CS-A3_A4_Farb-Zentraldrucker2		 Direct printing
&
webPRINT		 Direct printing
&
webPRINT		 direct printing
&
webPRINT
Large format plain paper printer

Large format photo paper printer		 webPRINT webPRINT webPRINT
Local pool printers3 Direct printing Direct printing Direct printing
         
North Large format plain paper printer

Large format photo paper printer		 no webPRINT webPRINT

1 Only after approval by the head of the institution and activation by the ITB.
2 Note: The name of the printer in the UNC path is different from the Windows "Share name", e.g. ...
UNC path name: CS-A3_A4_SW-Zentraldrucker
Win share name: CS-A3/A4-SW-Zentraldrucker
3 Service is currently not available.