Printing and Scanning

(For printing posters take a look here)
You can either access the printer queues or the physical printers directly. Accessing the physical printers enables you to check things like paper status or amount of toner left etc.

The Printers

Benton

Is a HP Laser Jet 500 color M551 printer placed in ???. It is named after Morris Fuller Benton who designed the New Century Schoolbook family of typefaces.

Forsberg

Is a Ricoh Aficio MPC3000 printer/copier/scanner placed in the little storage room on the fifth floor. It is named after Karl-Erik Forsberg who designed the Berling family of typefaces.

Holmes

Is a Canon iR-ADV C5240 printer/copier/scanner placed in the robotics lab on the fifth second. It is named after Kris Holmes who designed the Lucida family of typefaces.

Kettler

Is a HP 3005 printer placed in the corridor on the fifth floor. It is named after Howard Kettler, who designed the Courier family of typefaces.

Miedinger

Is a Canon iR-ADV C5255 printer/copier/scanner placed in the little storage room on the fifth floor. It is named after Max Miedinger who designed the Helvetica family of typefaces.

Morison

Is a Ricoh Aficio MPC2500 printer/copier/scanner placed in the little printer cubicle in the corridor on the second floor. It is named after Stanley Morison who designed the Times family of typefaces

Adding printers to Windows

Log out as unprivileged user and log in as administrator.

To find the printer drivers in a later stage (see below), first mapo a network drive according to

• This Computer -> Tools -> Map Network Drive '\\regler\windows\'

Adding printers to Windows XP

Printers and Faxes -> Add Printer
Select 'Use Network Printer'
Select a 'Printer on the Internet'. Enter URL: http://lpd.control.lth.se:631/printers/<printer>
where <printer> is Benton, BentonColor, Holmes, HolmesColor, Morison, MorisonColor, Miedinger, or MiedingerColor. Push 'Next'.

In the printer enumeration screen, select 'Use diskette'. Browse to the drive selected above, and then to 'PrinterDrivers\lpd.control.lth.se' and select lpd.control.lth.se, then select the same printer as above and accept installation of an unsigned driver.

Select 'Properties' for the newly added printer, and check that all paper sizes are selected as A4. Print a test page. Done!!

Adding printers to Windows 7

Log out as unprivileged user and log in as administrator.

Devices and Printers -> Add a printer -> Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer.
Don't bother letting it search for available printers. It will not find any. Instead click "The printer I want isn't listed." and then "Select a shared printer by name".
Enter http://lpd.control.lth.se:631/printers/<printer>
where <printer> is Benton, BentonColor, Holmes, HolmesColor, Morison, MorisonColor, Miedinger, or MiedingerColor. Push 'Next'. You should get a response saying "You've successfully added <printer> on http://lpd.control.lth.se:631".

See above (Windows XP)for where to find the printer drivers

Right click on the printer icon and choose 'Printer properties'. Check that all instances of the paper size is A4 (there are probably at least three places where this choice may be made), and print a test page.

Adding Printers to Mac

In a terminal window enter the commands

sudo cupsctl BrowseProtocols=all
sudo killall -v cupsd

System Preferences -> Print & Fax
Unlock it if necessary and click the + sign to add printers. Select the printers you want (see below) from the group that have the Kind Shared Printer, not the Kind Bonjour Shared.

Using the Scanners

Scanning on Forsberg (5th floor) or Morison (2nd floor)

1. Push the scanner button (the fifth of the large buttons to the left).
2. Choose "Mapp".
3. Choose "Reglerteknik".
4. Place the original and push the large green button.
5. Push # when you have scanned all pages of the current document.
6. Retreiving the scanned pages

   • Linux The scanned pages are available in the directory /work/scanners/

   • Windows Connect the network unit \\regler\scanners

   The scanned documents have timestamped names like "20100407100337993.pdf"
7. Repeat from 4 if you have more documents to scan.

Printing from the command line

Choose a printer with 'lpr -P<printername>' or by setting the variable PRINTER to the appropriate value (Forsberg, ForsbergColor, Kettler, Morison, MorisonColor, Zapf).
Printer options are selected with 'lpr -o <option>'. To get a list of available options for the printer, type 'lpoptions -p <printer> -l'.
Note: You can send pdf-files directly to the printers. You don't need to print from acroread or xpdf.

Morison, MorisonColor, Forsberg, ForsbergColor --- most common options

Staples: -o StapleLocation=UpperLeft -o  Option1=2Cassette
One-side printing: -o Duplex=None
Number of copies: -# <number of copies>
Note: the option -o  Option1=2Cassette needs to be included in order for the printer to actually staple.

Kettler, Zapf --- most common options

One-side printing: -o Duplex=None
Number of copies: -# <number of copies>

Example

The following command could be used to print the curriculum, 200 copies, stapled:
lpr -PMorison -# 200 -o StapleLocation=UpperLeft -o  Option1=2Cassette curriculum.pdf 
lpr -PMiedingerColor -# 200 -o Staple=1PLU curriculum.pdf