Printing Services

PRINTING

Printing from a UNIX box is accomplished using the lpr command, see below for more information about it. Please note, only text and postscript files can be sent to the printer using lpr. For PDF files, first open Adobe Acrobat (located in /usr/local/Acrobat/bin/acroread, on most systems) and print the file using Adobe Acrobat.

lpr [-Pprinter] [-#copies] [-filter-option] [filename]

OPTIONS

-Pprinter

This option is used to direct output to a specific printer. If you fail to include this option on the command line, the environmental variable PRINTER is queried to see which printer should be used.

-#copies

This option is used to specify the number of copies to be printed. For example, -#4, will print four copies.

-filter-option

The following single letter options notify the laser- writer print spooler to use the appropriate filters.

          -v   standard raster file
          -t   file contains troff binary data
          -f   First character interpreted as Fortan RETURN
          -d   file contains teX data (DVI format from Stanford)

EXAMPLE A

To print two copies of the file HelloWorld.java on the printer called majors, use the following:

lpr -Pmajors -#2 HelloWorld.java

EXAMPLE B

A DVI file (without embedded 1-inch by 1-inch offsets) may be printed using the commands: dvips filename.dvi -Pprinter

For those users who refuse to remove the 1-inch by 1-inch offset from their TeX files, you may still print papers using either

(recommended way)

dvips -O -1in,-1in filename.dvi -Pprinter

or

lpr -d filename.dvi

PRINT QUEUE COMMANDS

lpq [-Pprinter]

and

lprm [-Pprinter] [-jobID]

LPQ

This command will display the current print queue for the specified printer.

LPRM

This command will remove your job from the queue.

-Pprinter

This option is used to direct output to a printer, as above.

-jobID

The ID for your print job can be found by first running lpq and looking for the ID accompanying your username in the list.

SEE ALSO

man lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), csX(6), cstex(6), a2ps(1), texi2dvi4a2ps(1)

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List of Available Printers

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 5 SiMx
     LOCATION: Room 006 Love (Majors Lab)
     COMMAND:  One page per sheet: lpr -Pmajors filename
               Two pages per sheet: a2ps -Mletter filename -Pmajors
     USERS:    Any CS student, staff, faculty.

     TYPE:     Brother HL-5170DN
     LOCATION: 104A Love (Grad Lab)
     COMMAND:  lpr -Psrv1 filename -OR-  lpr -Pgrad filename
     USERS:    CS faculty, staff, and graduate  students

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 4050N
     LOCATION: 203F Love
     COMMAND:  lpr -Plov203 filename
     USERS:    CS faculty and staff, and graduate students
          
     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 5m
     LOCATION: 102 MCH
     COMMAND:  lpr -Pmch102 filename
     USERS:    CS faculty and staff, and graduate students

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 5 SiMx
     LOCATION: 128 MCH
     COMMAND:  lpr -Psrv2 filename -OR-  lpr -Pmch128 filename
     USERS:    Students attending class in MCH128

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 9000n
     LOCATION: 260 Love
     COMMAND:  lpr -Plov260 filename 
     USERS:    CS faculty and staff, and graduate assistants

     TYPE:     HP Color LaserJet 4500N
     LOCATION: 260 Love
     COMMAND:  lpr -Pcolor filename
     USERS:    CS faculty and staff, and graduate assistants

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 4050N
     LOCATION: 153 Love
     COMMAND:  lpr -Plov153 filename
     USERS:    CS faculty and staff

     TYPE:     HP LaserJet 4100N
     LOCATION: 010 Love (Security Lab)
     USERS:    Those with access to the Security Lab

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Policy

A print accounting system is in place for all users of Computer Science printers. This system records the number of pages printed by each user. A print quota is in place for all users of Computer Science Printers, and is as follows:

Account Type	Quota
Class	100
Majors	250
Grads	500
Faculty	No quota
Staff	No quota

If a user exceeds their quota, they may have their print quota increased under the following circumstances by contacting the System group:

1. The user shows valid reason for an increase in print quota.
2. If the user is a Teaching Assistant, or Research Assistant, and requires printing services for functions directly related to their Assistantship, and the Professor the student is working with requests an increase, not larger than 1,000 pages, to the student's print quota.

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Checking Your Print Quota

To check the status of your print quota use a web browser and go to http://print.cs.fsu.edu. Type in your username. The page will display the number of page you have printed for the semester, the total number of pages you may print, and the number of page credits you have. Credits are how many pages you may print in addition to your quota.