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Network printing

Printing over the Engineering network can be done by two means:

Uniflow - There are a collection of canon printer/copier/scanner units around the Department. Any member of the Department can use these facilities. Printing/copying is costed, so those wanting to print or copy must have a means of payment in place before use. Information on uniflow is available on a separate page.
CUPS (Central Unix Printing System) - Information about CUPS printing follows.

CUPS printing

See the network printing page for details of which printers are currently available on CUPS and how to connect your printer.

Most networked CUPS printers belong to either a research group or an individual. So before configuring your machine to print to a network printer, make sure that you are authorised to do so.

There are, however, three printers near the DPO (in room IE1-31) which are available to all members of the Department for printing. The printers are ljmr1 and ljmr2 (both monochrome laser printers, capable of A4, A3 and doubled sided output), and cljmrn (a colour laser printer capable of A4, A3 and double sided output). There are a couple of constraints to using these printers:

The printers are primarily for teaching use. Therefore, there should be no significant amounts of printing during teaching labs. If in doubt, check with the Computer Operators.
All printing to these printers is accounted for. Printing is charged to a job number or an individual's printing quota. All printing must therefore be authorised via our web interface in order to release the print job.

MS Windows users - Adding and configuring a CUPS network printer

See the separate instructions. These instructions contain information specific to adding and configuring the CUPS printers near the DPO to your PC, however the same instructions can be used for printing to any network printer so long as:

You have permission to print to that printer.
You have the correct printer drivers installed on your PC.

If in doubt, consult your Computer Officer.

File Formats

Our main laser printers (ljmr1,ljmr2, ljidp and cljmrn) understand postscript and PCL. Most other file formats are converted automatically using lp, but it doesn't cope with everything. PDF (Acrobat) files can be printed from the command line or from the Acrobat viewers invoked by supplying the filename to the acroread command.

Poster Printing

These days poster printing is done by the Print Room.

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