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Printing in Jadwin Hall

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There are more than a dozen network printers distributed over different locations of Jadwin Hall. Some are private, some are group owned and others are public.
A heavy duty wide format Dell 5110cn printer is a common facility for which actual usage of toner and media are charged. Print queues are already setup on Feynman cluster and centrally administered workstations.
Windows and Mac users must setup desired printers manually, some tips follow for Unix Windows Mac

Public printers queue names (Linux, NTprintserver and IP names):
lpr -P   \\NTprintserver           IP name			Location
dla17    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_a17    phy-dla17.princeton.edu	A17 Jadwin Hall
dl104    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_104    phy-dl104.princeton.edu	104 Jadwin Hall
dl105    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_105b   phy-dl105.princeton.edu	105 Jadwin Hall
dl211    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_211    phy-dl211.princeton.edu	211 Jadwin Hall
dl231    no ntprintserver queue    phy-dl231.princeton.edu	231 Jadwin Hall
dl231c   phy_dl_jadwin_hall_231c   phy-dl231c.princeton.edu	231 Jadwin Hall
n/a      phy_dl_jadwin_hall_249    lambda.princeton.edu		249 Jadwin Hall
n/a      phy_dl_jadwin_hall_311    phy-dl311.princeton.edu	208D 87 Prospect
hp330    phy_hp_jadwin_hall_330    phy-hp330.princeton.edu	105B 87 Prospect
n/a      phy_dl_jadwin_hall_365    gcprinter.princeton.edu	365 Jadwin Hall
dl378    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_378    phy-dl378.princeton.edu	331A 87 Prospect
dl408    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_408    phy-dl408.princeton.edu	408 Jadwin Hall
dl418    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_418    phy-dl418.princeton.edu	418 Jadwin Hall
dl418a   phy_dl_jadwin_hall_418a   phy-dl418a.princeton.edu	418A Jadwin Hall
dl439a   phy_dl_jadwin_hall_439a   phy-dl439a.princeton.edu	439A Jadwin Hall
dl470    phy_dl_jadwin_hall_470    phy-dl470.princeton.edu	470 Jadwin Hall

Printing from Unix (Linux Workstations/Feynman):

lpr -P print_queue_name file.name, lpstat -s for listing available queues. For details see CUPS user manual at: http://www.cups.org/sum.html

Each printer has 4 queues associated with it. The first 2 or 3 characters represent printer make (hp or xrx) next 3 characters indicate room number. An optional postfix character indicate the following:

"" = Duplex, 2 pages/side (Default, if printer has duplexer)
"d" = Duplex, force 1 page/side (if printer has duplexer)
"s" = Simplex, force 1 page/sheet
"r" = Rotated, Duplex, force 1 page/sheet, page on reverse rotated by 180 degrees
For example
lpr -P hp208   file.txt  prints duplexed, 2 pages each side
lpr -P hp208d file.ps  prints duplexed 1 page each side
lpr -P hp208s file.pdf  prints single sided 1 page for letters and transparencies.
lprm -P hp208 job_id  Removes print job job_id from print queue hp208

Printing from Windows:

  1. These network printers are installed as shared printers on OIT's NTprintserver.
  2. To install these on clients, just run \\NTprintserver and double-click on the printer nearest to you. You do not need any special privileges for this but you need to logon as Princeton\NetID.
  3. The other method is to make direct connection from your machine to the networked printer. This must be done with admin privileges.
  4. Control Panel -> Printers -> Add a printer -> Local Printer -> Create a new port: Standard TCP/IP Port ->Enter IP name (from the above table)
  5. Find the printer driver you downloaded and installed, or that came with Windows if it's included. Print a test page and verify it worked.
  6. Windows allows setting printing preferences on per-user basis via printer properties to override defaults. The properties dialog varies among different vendors and some times between models.
  7. For example, duplex or multi-page/sheet setting may be be found under General or Paper Layout or Finishing tabs, curse the vendor, not us!

To set up a queue in recent versions of Mac OS X:

In System Preferences, open Print & Scan

  1. In System Preferences, open Print & Scan
  2. Press the "+" key to add a printer (open the lock first, if necessary to allow changes)
  3. In the Add Printer window, click the IP icon
  4. Protocol should be set to LPD
  5. In the Address field, enter the IP name of the printer from the list at the top of this page
  6. Leave Queue blank
  7. Click "Add"
Alternatively, printers can be added using the queues set up on ntprintserver.
In step 5 above, enter ntprintserver in the Address field. Under Queue, type in one of the queue names (e.g. phy_dl_jadwin_hall_378). Click Add.

Additional Info: http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=8912