Default Print Settings
CSE's printers are divided into 'student' and 'staff' depending on their location. The default print settings on these are only slightly different.
On Student printers the following settings are on by default:
- duplex - both sides of the paper are used
- watermark - your username is splashed across the page in light grey so you can identify your printouts
- bounding box - text files are printed inside a box with a title bar.
On Staff printers the following settings are on by default:
- duplex - both sides of the paper are used
- no watermark
- bounding box - text files are printed inside a box with a title bar.
Turning off duplex
To print single-sided, append .sgl to the name of the printer. For examplelpr -Pouch.sgl foo.txt
This also turns off the watermark so you can print 'nice' pages suitable for a report.
Turning off/on the watermark
Either print single-sided as above, or - if you want duplex - append .dup to the name of the printer. For example:lpr -Pouch.dup foo.txt.
On staff printers, if you want the watermark it can be added by appending .name to the name of the printer.
For example lpr -Plate.name foo.txt.
Turning off the bounding box and title/header
aps -~B -~H file.txt | lpr -Pprinter.
aps is a useful text-to-postscript filter with a lot more options than -B and -H, which control the box and header respectively.
Run: man aps for more details.