Card registration on Xerox printers
TUM Legic cards (Student Card / Personal Card / Mensa Card) can be associated with an ITO account to enable card login at the printers' card readers.
First-time card registration
To use your Legic card at the printers easily and quickly, you may need to complete a preliminary registration. Proceed as follows:
1. Swipe the Legic card across the card reader
Hold the card briefly on the card reader until you hear a beeping sound. (Please do not leave the card to lie on the reader)
You'll then be prompted to register the card.
If a dialog different from the one shown below appears, displaying your name in a box in the upper-right corner, then your card has already been registered, and you can skip the next steps.
If the card reader blinks red or rejects the card, your card has already been linked to a different, unauthorized account (which is the standard case with student accounts). In this case, you should contact ITO (via e-mail at support@ito.cit.tum.de) so that the incorrect account pairing can be invalidated.
2. Enter your username:
Currently, registering is only possible with "username"@in.tum.de or "username"@ma.tum.de. Other accounts aren't supported at present.
3. Enter your respective password.
Your name should be displayed in the upper-right area. You'll now be able to log in with your card.
About the cards
We support three types of cards regarding registration on the printers:
- The new employee IDs
- Guest copy cards (to be acquired at the ITO)
- Studentenwerk's mensa cards
(During printing, the cards serve identification purposes. Your Mensa credit remains untouched in the process.)
To log in, our system needs to know which card is yours. If you're not familiar with the card, you'll be prompted to complete a one-off registration (see above).
You can check whether you have a card registered in your name on MyITO. You can check whether you have a card registered in your name on ucentral. If that's not the case, you can register it on the printers.
Deregistration
The deregistration (e.g., in case the card has been linked to the wrong account) can be carried out only by the ITO, since no such function is implemented on the printers.
Please write an email to the ITO (support@ito.cit.tum.de) to deregister your card, including the card's Legic-ID and the incorrectly linked CIT username. In this example, the Legic-ID has been marked in red:
Possible problems and solutions
The card reader blinks red when the card is placed atop
If the card reader simply blinks red when the card is placed on top of it without any further behavior, then the card has been registered to a different account that isn't authorized to print. That's the standard case with all student accounts.
Solution: Deregister the card at the ITO (see above) and/or inform your chair administrator/IT-Support so that a printing cost center is allocated to your user account.
Another user is logged in when the card is laid on the reader
This usually occurs due to the following event sequence:
- The user lays their card on top of the reading device
- The card hasn't been registered yet -> Printer displays a registration dialog
- User doesn't know how to proceed and leaves without interrupting the login dialog
- The second user approaches the printer and sees the login dialog
- Second user enters their login credentials into the dialog -> printer registers the card of the first user on the account of the second user
Furthermore, the Xerox printers might detect an identification number of another card that is identical to the Legic-ID. This affects, for example, most credit cards. It's not guaranteed that all these numbers are allocated without overlap; this means an unrelated card can be registered as well (accidentally, e.g., even when a wallet containing different cards is held on the card reader). If a Legic-Card with the same ID is placed on the device, the user who registered the other card is logged in instead.
Solution: deregister your card at the ITO (see above).