Printers and Printing

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.

Adding printers to Windows XP

Log out as unprivileged user and log in as administrator.

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

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 Kettler, Forsberg, ForsbergColor, Morison, MorisonColor or Zapf. Push 'Next'.

In the printer enumeration screen, select 'Use diskette'. Browse to the drive selected above, and then to 'PrinterDrivers', and to an appopriate printer folder. For Forsberg, ForsbergColor, Morison, MorisonColor, it is 'RicohMPC3000', and for Kettler and Zapf it is 'MP3005'. Inside 'RicohMPC3000' select C2500 for Morison and MorisonColor, and C3000 for Forsberg and ForsbergColor.

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 Kettler, Forsberg, ForsbergColor, Morison, MorisonColor or Zapf. Push 'Next'. You should get a response saying "You've successfully added <printer> on http://lpd.control.lth.se:631".

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

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Printing from the command line

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Man väljer skrivare med 'lpr -P<printername>' eller genom att sätta variabeln PRINTER till lämpligt värde (Benton, Benton/Staple, Color, Color/OH, Kettler, Plan_2).
Skrivaroptioner väljs med 'lpr -o <option>'. Vilka optioner som finns för respektive skrivare, får man genom kommandot 'lpoptions -p <skrivare> -l' Antal kopior väljes med 'lpr -# <antal kopior>'
Observera! Det går utmärkt att skicka pdf-filer direkt till skrivarna. Man behöver alltså inte skriva ut från acroread eller xpdf.

Exempel

Följande kommando kan vara lämpligt vid utskrift av kursprogram:
  lpr -P Benton/Staple -# 200 kursprogram.ps
De skrivare som klarar av dubbelsidig utskrift har det som standard. Vill man ha en enkelsidig utskrift skriver man
   lpr -P Benton -o Duplex=None <filnamn>

The Printers

Forsberg

Is a Ricoh Aficio MPC3000 printer/copier/scanner placed in the library on the fifth floor. It is named after Karl-Erik Forsberg who designed the Berling 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.

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

Zapf

Is a HP 3005 printer placed in the corridor on the first floor. It is named after Hermann Zapf, who designed the Palatino family of typefaces and many more.