Choosing a printer
In order to print a document, you need to know the name of the printer you want to use. This name can be found on a label attached to the printer, or check the table below:| Lab name | Printer names |
|---|---|
| Leaf, Spoons, Moog, Bell | lump, kaboo |
| Sanhu, Erhu, Mabu | shooter |
| Guan | itch |
| Clavier, Organ, Piano | ouch, light |
| Bugle | luck |
| Pipe | ants |
Printing from Linux
The command to print a document is lpr -Pprinter, where printer is the printer name as above.To print from an application's "Print..." dialog, just insert this string into the 'Command line' field:
To print a file from the command line, just append the name of the file you want to print: lpr -Pprinter myfile.txt
Printing PDFs
At present, inline conversion of PDFs is not available from the command line. This means that running lpr -Pprinter myfile.pdf from the terminal will not work.This will be fixed soon, but in the meantime, you will either need to print the document from inside the acroread, evince or xpdf applications' print dialogs (or using your web browser), or pipe the file through ps2pdf:
pdf2ps myfile.pdf - | lpr -Pprinter
Printing from Windows
The Windows printing system is integrated with the labs - just select the correct printer name from the dropdown when prompted.Disabling watermarks or printing single-sided
By default, documents sent to lab printers are printed double-sided, with your username overlaid as a watermark to help you identify your own print jobs.To override these settings, append .sgl to the printer name for single-sided with no watermark, or append .dup for double-sided with no watermark.
For example, lpr -Pprinter.dup myfile.txt
On Windows, you may need to add this print queue manually. To do this, just go to Start => Run, and type \\cse-reddwarf\printer.option - for instance:
