Students tired of waiting in long lines to print at Boston University computer labs have another option besides ambling over to a lab, the Student Union Technology Committee emphasized yesterday evening at an informational session held at the School of Management.

Students were taught how to remotely send print jobs to computer labs from their dorm rooms and members of the Union Technology Committee were on hand to help students set up their computers for the task.

“It’s a relatively unknown service,” committee President Jonathan Pasquale said. “Remote printing is not very easy to do. It requires many programs to be downloaded. [The event] shows that students care about other students.”

Remote printing has been available to students for several years, but has remained relatively unused, Pasquale, an SMG senior, told attendees. The service incorporates on-campus computer labs, including those at 111 Cummington St. and the third floor of SMG.

Committee member Justin Kaufman, a co-organizer, emphasized the benefits of remote printing for student life.

“I am distressed that student resources are spent on their personal printing needs,” he said. “Remote printing will save students a lot of money. Printer ink is very expensive, and the printers at the labs are far more efficient.”

Kaufman, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said the committee hopes the increased use of remote printing will alleviate some of the congestion at computer labs.

“The bottleneck is the computers themselves, rather than the printers” Kaufman said. “It is much easier to upgrade or add another printer than to add computers to a lab.”

CAS junior Rounak Rawal said he saw a sign at the computer lab for the information session and thought remote printing would be a helpful tool to learn about.

“I don’t feel like trekking my way to 111 Cummington St. just to print,” Rawal said. “It’s a bit hard to set up, but it’s definitely worth it later.”

Committee member Rebecca Mandel said the evening was helpful because students were able to discover technology readily available at their fingertips on campus.

“The goal of the Technology Committee is to get the whole university to be more computer-literate,” Mandel, a CAS sophomore, said. “This is the first time that we are really publicizing [this service]. We hope to go to the RHAs at dormitories and see if they want us to host more events like this in the dorms.”

Information on how to set up remote printing is also available on the Personal Computing Support Center website, Pasquale said.