Scan, copy and print

Scanners, copiers and printers are available at all of our library locations.

Your LU-Card: both library card and printcard

To be able to print documents, either use your own device, or sign in to one of the library computers. Get your prints from any of the university printers by presenting your LU-Card.

Your LU-Card doubles as print and copycard. The balance to your account can be topped up either at one of the 'PinPoint' machines at university buildings in Leiden and in The Hague, or online using Webprint.

Scans

Leiden University students and staff can use most of the university's copy machines to scan documents to their email address. At the University Library (UB), visitors can scan directly to a pen drive / usb.

The UB also has a flatbed scanner, on the first floor hallway next to the group rooms. Leiden University students and staff can save scans to their university account. Alumni and guest account holders do not have any storage options; a workaround would be to temporarily save scanned documents to the desktop and mail them to your personal email before logging off. 

Special Collections

Most Special Collections material can be digitised and reused for research or publication.

At the Reading Room Special Collections in the the UB, reading room material and material for which permission was granted by our staff, may be scanned to a pen drive / usb. Please bring your own device.

Print and copy credit issues?

If you should lose any credit due to a printer malfunction, please fill out the university's facilities department support form. There is also a form allowing you to ask for a refund for a balance of over € 3 that you will not be using anymore.