Printing
Printing from a Mac? See here. Also see the note on duplex printing in the next section.
There are four b/w postscript printers available:
- "p544" is in the 5th floor computer room 501B
- "p433" is in the 4th floor back hallway (outside room 433)
- "p709" is in the 7th floor reading room
- "p665" is on the 6th floor in room 665 (the mail and copy room)
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 is also our fastest printer; please use it 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 two color printers: "color" and "color2."
The color printers are both HP Color LaserJet 3000 models named
color and
color2.
They will print duplex with the "-o duplex" option to the lp command. They
will print on glossy laserjet and transparency paper in addition to normal paper
(please see Bill or Kelley for help in doing this).
If the color printers ask for toner (a message will show up in the printer message
window), ask central@astro to do it. Adding toner or fixing other
problems is a job for central@astro and SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED BY
ANYONE ELSE.
To print on one of the color printers, enter:
lp -d color filename
or
lp -d color2 filename
Posters
To print a poster, please see these instructions.
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