Printing at IAAT

Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik

Abteilung Astronomie

Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

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Printing from Unix

Printing from the Unix machines at IAAT is done with the

lpr -Pqueue file command on the Linux and DEC machines,
lp -dqueue file command on HP-UX and Solaris,

where queue is the name of the printer queue (see below) and where file is the name of the file to be printed. Note that there is no blank between the queue-name and the -P or -d, but there is a blank between the queue name and the filename. For other options to lpr and lp please refer to the respective manual pages (man lpr and man lp).

For pretty-printing of ASCII text the program enscript is recommended. Good results can be obtained with enscript -2Gr file, which is the default-setting of the environment variable ENSCRIPT. For other options, please see the manual page.

Printing from MicroSoft Operating Systems

All Unix-printer queues can be reached via the Samba server aitxu2 using the netgroup AIT. Please refer to the MicroSoft manual on how to use these queues as your default printer queue.

Printer Queues

There are several printer-queues for each printer, the names of which indicate how many pages get printed on each sheet of paper, and whether the paper is to be printed on both sides (``duplex'') or not. The general makeup of each queue-name is printer_pages where printer is the printer name, and pages indicates how many pages are printed per sheet of paper. The following table lists the available printer queues.

WARNING: Due to a bug in the ZDV printer software, printing to ps035 and ps036 works only from Linux machines.

Printer	Queues	Description
a3	a3	A3-Printer-HP-LaserJet 5SiMX, A217
g55	g55ps	HP OfficeJet G55, A217, color
g55	g55ps_2	HP OfficeJet G55, A217, color
d125xi	d125xips	HP OfficeJet D125xi Bibliothek, color, d=duplex, 2=2 pages per page
	d125xips_2
	d125xips_d
	d125xips_d2
dcps	dcps	HP Laserjet 4300, 1st floor (EG), printer room
	dcps_2
	dcps_22
hp5	hp5	HP Laserjet 4300, 2nd floor, A217
	hp5_2
	hp5_22
hp3si	hp3si	HP LaserjetIII Si (300dpi), 1st floor, room A110
hp1170c	hp1170c_pcl	HP 1100C Color printer (600dpi), 2nd floor, printer room; ps-queues are converted to PCL via ghostscript, only for paper
folie	folie	HP 990Cxi Color printer (600dpi), 2nd floor, printer room; ps-queues are converted to PCL via TurboPrint, only for viewgraphs
ps010_a4	ps010	HP Color LaserJet 9500hdn, Morgenstelle C2A14
ps010_a3	ps010_a3	HP Color LaserJet 9500hdn, A3-Format
ps010_d4	ps010_d4	HP Color LaserJet 9500hdn, A4-Format, duplex
ps010_t4	ps010_t4	HP Color LaserJet 9500hdn, A4-Format, duplex, Bindung kurze Kante
ps033_a4	ps033	HP Color LaserJet 5500dtn, Wilhelmstrasse UG Pool (Postscript only!)
ps033_d4	ps033_d4	HP Color LaserJet 5500dtn, A4-Format, duplex
ps035_a0	ps035_a0	A0 Color printer HP DesignJet 5000PS (1200x600dpi), Morgenstelle C2A14 (Postscript only!)
ps038_a0	ps038_a0	A0 Color printer HP DesignJet 5000PS (1200x600dpi), Wächterstr. (Postscript only!)

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