Payment

You can increase your printing accounts balance by transfering money onto an account at the Sparkasse Bonn. Such a transfer can take up to a few days. It may also take a few more days for us to rebalance your printing account, because our account at the Sparkasse Bonn is not checked on a daily basis. Please note that there may be even more delay during vacations (end of August / start of September), because then, our account at the Sparkasse is not checked on a regular basis. So please make sure early that your printing account is balanced. The institute grantes you the possibility to overdraw your printing account in urgent cases. This option is only intended for urgent cases and not for regular usage. Accounts that have been highly overdraw for a long time may be locked by the institute, so please keep your printing account balanced.

Note that dates, listed on your account activity statement may be calculated afterwards and therefore may not match the date you've transfered money onto our account. The same is true for our accounting and the confirmation mail you will receive.

It is very important that you fill out the purpose field (Verwendungszweck in german) on the payment slip carefully and clearly or we will not be able to match your payment with your login name. Please write in block letters (or use a printer/typewriter) and take a look at the example stated below. You may also use an individually created payment slip.

After the transfer you should check your account activity statement, to verify that your bank processed your transfer correctly. Should there be any differences between your payment slips purpose field and the purpose your bank has received, please send us the false data, that your bank has processed (including date and amount of money transfered), as well as the corrected one per email to pacadm@iai.uni-bonn.de . Stating your accounts number or accounts owner is not necessary, because we won't receive this data from the bank anyway, but the information in the purpose field is important.

Should your printing account not be replenished within 6 work days, although you transfered the money correctly, please send a mail to pacadm@iai.uni-bonn.de with the above mentioned content. If the m-flag is set for your printing account (default for students), you will receive a notification mail after a successful transfer onto your printing account.

Example of a filled out payment slip
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Everything that has been writen by hand in this above example must be changed, corresponding to your name, loginname, uid and so on. Here you will learn how to find the information you will need. The first step would be to logon to a Linux computer at the institute (e.g. any pool computer or zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de) and open a console. Lets assume in the following example that your login is "musterma". Then you could find out your uid by using one of the following commands:

id musterma
its output will look somehting like this:
uid=6666(musterma) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody)

pacinfo musterma
its output will look something like this:

PAC information for musterma (uid 6666):
Department:	-	(costs will be summed up to your personal account)
Flags:	m+
Credits:	Euro -0.31	[Last deposit:07.11.2005]
Printer:	feder	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	130
	gutenberg	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	58
	gray	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	0
	white	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	179
	black	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	0
	flosse	permission:yes	Freepages:	0	Printed:	6

The purpose you would have to state on the payment slip would be:

or alternatively

Please note that using a certain format is mandatory, so that a transfer onto your printing account can be done without complications. Please use one of the two following formats:

login loginname uid uid

or alternatively

login: loginname uid: uid

The bold words login and uid are mandatory
The cursive words loginname and uid must be substituted with the loginname and uid of the receiver. Usually this will be yours.
The uid will be in the range of 3000-7999 or 20000-39999. Please notice, that in general the uid is not identical to the number printed on your access card. Of course, the uid is also quite different from your matriculation number, so please don't use that number.
Please write in block letters, clearly and readable.

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