The copier in the mail-room of the CS Building can be used as a printer in limited circumstances. The guidelines are listed here and were developed with the department manager and the department chair. Due to technical limitations, we cannot enforce all of these guidelines via technology and end-users must police themselves.
On Macintosh systems, the most common way to print is from within an application program, such as Safari. To send a print job to the default printer, use the mouse button to click on the File pull-down menu, click on the Print... menu item, make any required changes to the options, and then click on the Print button. If you wish to send your output to a printer other than the default, you can change the "Printer:" before you click on the Print button.
This page describes how to configure a MAC OS X machine for printing in the CS Department.
Example adding xrx_232 on OS X Mountain Lion:
Bring up System Preferences, and click on "Print & Scan":
Duplex (two-sided) printing is the default for all department printers which support it. To request simplex (single-sided) printing, or any of the other special features a particular printer offers, one specifies a modified printer name for the request. The names that correspond to particular printer features can be found in the output of the printers command.
To have a file printed, use the command lpr filename where filename is the name of the file you want to print.
Note: if you use wildcard expansion (e.g., lpr *) make sure that no more than 30 files are specified. If more than 30 files are specified, nothing will print and you will get no notification of the failure.
Note: Only registered hosts can use the printers in the CS department. Information on who is eligible to register a host and how to do so is here.
To use a specific printer feature when printing from a Windows system, one must choose the appropriate "Printing Preferences" either from the "Properties" window of the printer, or the "Properties" window available when printing from the "File->Print" menu of an application program.
Note that the suffixed print queue names available in Unix (e.g., xrx_232/simplex) are not available to Windows users due to the way Windows printing is supported by our print server software.
Initial Setup (Adding Printers Using IPP)
Note: Only registered hosts can use the printers in the CS department. Information on who is eligible to register a host and how to do so is here.
