Printers, Print Quota, & Printing Printers, Print Quota, & Printing
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The Elder and Hering labs have four HP LaserJet laser printers, two in each lab. Students can print from Windows or Linux applications to those printers. You can print formatted text, PDF, and PostScript files on the lab and departmental laser printers. Pages printed in the Elder and Hering labs cost $.05 per page.
To add a printer, see that section below.
CSS has an HP color laser printer that produces outstanding output; the colors are bright and deep, including the black; and is fast. Output is $.25 per side printed. Students should come to the consulting office, 1253 SC, to claim output from the color printer. Faculty and staff should arrange color printing with the CSS main office, 335-5751, 1256 SC.
Also in 1253 SC there is an HP Photosmart color inkjet printer that can print on paper up to 14" x 17". You must supply your own photo-quality inkjet paper; there is no additional charge to use the printer. This inkjet printer is a local printer and so must be used in 1253SC, where it resides.
Every student Engineering account has a dollar-based print quota for printing. Currently, all students are allocated $10.00 of print quote at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters, and $5.00 of print quota for the summer semester. At five cents per page, this amounts to 200 printed pages. If you print duplex on the black and white printers, you are charged only $.05/page; thus with duplex printing you could print as many as 400 pages before using all your print quota. At the beginning of each semester, print quota is reset to the allocated amount.
Once you have used your $10.00, you begin using credit printing. The default print credit amount is $25/month and this amount is enabled by default for each valid computing account. With credit printing as you print pages each month, the charges are accumulated. Until the monthly printing has been added to your U-Bill, your printing quota will show a negative balance. Each month your U-Bill will show a charge for the printing you have done, up to $20 or the amount you authorized. After the month's print charge has been added to your U-Bill, your print account is set back to zero and you begin credit printing up to the default or other monthly limit you have set.
If you do not want printing charged to your U-Bill or you want to authorize a monthly amount less than $25, you must come into the CSS office, 1256 SC.
If you do not have charging privileges, you will have to pay for additional print quota at the Engineering Electronics Shop, 2018 SC. Additional printing that you purchase with cash in this manner will not carry over to the next semester, nor will it be refunded.
To print from Linux applications, select the Print option from the application menu and follow the instructions. If you are working in the Elder or Hering labs, the output from your job will be on the printers nearest that lab. In addition, because it was easy to do with Linux, if you are working on an odd-numbered machine, e.g., L-LNX003, your output will be on the odd-numbered printer, PTRCSS01 or 03. Conversely if you are using an even-numbered machine, your output will be on the even-numbered printer, PTRCSS00 or 02.
From a shell, use the lpstat command to view your files in the print queue.
To print a file, select the Print option from the application menu and follow the instructions. Your print quota is adjusted by the number of pages that you print.
Printing is automatically set to print on one side of the paper. You can use duplex printing (prints on the front and back of the page); see the following section for how to select duplex printing.
To make additional printers available from Windows applications, go to Start
| Printers and Faxes and click on it. Select File and then Add Printer. Follow the Add Printer wizard by clicking Next on the first dialogue box. Clicking Next again will bring you
to the screen below.
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Select Find a printer in the directory and click Next.
Leave all fields blank and click Find Now to see a list of available printers. Double click the printer you wish to add, then Yes or No and Next to make the currently selected printer your default printer, and Finish. You can also click on the Features tab to specify any special features.
Note that there are two listings for most printers: prtxxx##ps and ptrxxx##pcl. The name indicates the printer driver used: "ps" is PostScript and "pcl" is Printer Command Language, used by HP printers. Some document types, PDF for example, print more correctly with a pcl driver than a ps driver.
Duplex printing is printing on both sides of the sheet of paper. By printing on both sides of the paper, you get twice the output for each sheet of paper. Duplex printing on the black and white printers prtcss00, 01, 02, and 03 costs $.05/page; to print both sides of a page costs $.05. The HP LaserJet printers in the labs support duplex printing.
On a Windows computer, select the Print command from the application you are using. Select File | Print, choose one of the HP LaserJet printers, and click the Properties button.
In this dialogue box, there are three radio buttons for Print on Both Sides:
none, Flip on Long Edge, Flip on Short Edge. Long edge, as selected above, prints
pages read by turning them like a book. Short edge prints pages read by flipping
them over like a notepad. Choose one of the double-sided choices (long side
is most common), click OK, and print your document.
When you send a job to print, the print accounting software opens a print job notification dialogue box. You must select Print on that dialogue box to allow the job to proceed to the printer. For more information, read about Papercut.
If one of the lab printers is out of service, notify a consultant in 1253 SC or a CSS staff member in 1256 SC. If no student staff is available and the CSS office is closed, please leave the printer alone. The problem will be corrected as soon as a monitor or staff member is available.
If you have sent a file to the printer that has not printed within a reasonable amount of time, please do not re-send the file. Check to see if there was an error message on your screen. Check your print quota by looking at the Papercut window. Use Papercut to look at your print and transaction history.
If you cannot get your file to print and there is no problem with the printer, see the consultant in 1253 SC for assistance.
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