Printing
Printing from a Mac? See here. Also see the note on duplex printing in the next section.
Printing from Windows PC? See here.
There are three b/w postscript printers available:
- "p544" (HP LaserJet 5200) is in HFA Building C
- "p433" (HP LaserJet P4015) is in HFA Building D
- "p665" (HP LaserJet 5200) is in HFA Building B
Each workstation is normally set up to use the closest printer as the
default lp. All laser printers are capable of 2-sided printing (lp -o
duplex); p544 and p665 are our fastest printers; please use them for
long printouts (long defined as anything more than 30 pages or
postscript files larger than a megabyte in size). Use the lp command
rather than the old lpr, use "lpstat -t" rather than lpq. "lp"
automatically recognizes postscript and rasterfiles.
N.B. If you get a postscript file via email, don't forget to strip off
the header, and any lines preceding the line:
"%!PS-Adobe-..."
To print TeX dvi files, use dvips or TeXShop.
Another useful print command is enscript, e.g., to print a file,
rotated, 2 columns per page:
enscript -2r file
To print one-sided from a Linux machine, use:
lp -d p544 -o sides=one-sided filename
If that command fails, try:
lp -d p544 -o Duplex=None filename
To explicitly print duplex from a Linux box or a Mac command line:
lp -d p544 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble filename
Color Printing
There are three color printers:
- "color" (HP Color LaserJet 3000) in HFA Building B
- "color2" (HP Color LaserJet CP4525dn) in HFA Building C
- "colord" (HP Color LaserJet CP4525dn) in HFA Building D
They will print duplex with the "-o duplex" option to the lp command.
If the color printers ask for toner (a message will show up in the printer message window), please notify the Front Desk receptionist or send email to central@astro.
To print on one of the color printers, enter:
lp -d color filename
or
lp -d color2 filename
or
lp -d colord filename
Posters
To print a poster, please see these instructions.
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