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.
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The Printers
Benton
Is a HP Laser Jet 500 color M551 printer placed on third floor close to the administration. It is named after Morris Fuller Benton who designed the New Century Schoolbook family of typefaces.
Holmes
Is a Canon iR-ADV C5240 printer/copier/scanner placed in the robotics lab. It is named after Kris Holmes who designed the Lucida family of typefaces.
Kettler
Was a HP 3005 printer but is no longer in service. 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 storage room 3N:25 on the third floor. It is named after Max Miedinger who designed the Helvetica family of typefaces.
Forsberg
Is a Canon iR-ADV C5255 printer/copier/scanner placed in another storage room 3N:23 on the third floor.
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 Windows 8.1
Log out as unprivileged user and log in as administrator.
In order to install unsigned device drivers in Windows 8 you must perform a very extra special computer restart procedure: Lower right corner of screen -> Settings -> Change PC Settings -> Update and recovery -> Recovery -> Advanced Startup -> Restart Now -> Troubleshoot -> Startup Settings -> Restart.
Press 7 when the choice screen appears during restart. Log in and proceed as for Windows 7.
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 end in "@ lpd". Choose "Generic Post Script" (or the Post script version that the dialogue might suggest), but not AirPrint.
Using the Scanners
Scanning on Forsberg (5th floor) or Morison (2nd floor)
- Push the scanner button (the fifth of the large buttons to the left).
- Choose "Mapp".
- Choose "Reglerteknik".
- Place the original and push the large green button.
- Push # when you have scanned all pages of the current document.
- Retreiving the scanned pages
Linux The scanned pages are available in the directory /work/scanners/
Windows Connect the network unit \\regler\scanners
- 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