Printing

The printers generally accept only plain (ASCII) text files, or files in postscript format (usually files with .ps extension. Most applications will produce postscript output by default, if you work with LaTeX, you should use dvips.

If you are a student with a class account, your default printer will be the printer in room 390, which is named ps390. Faculty and graduate student accounts may have other defaults.

Basic Commands for Printing

lpr filename
Send the file filename to the printer.
lpr -P ps482 filename
Send the file filename to the printer named ps482 (which is located in room 482).
lpq
List the printer queue.
lpq -P ps482
List the job queue for the printer named ps482.
lprm
Supposed to remove your oldest job from the printer queue. This command does not currently work.
lprm jobnumber
Supposed to remove the job with number jobnumber from the printer queue. You can find out the job number through lpq. This command does not currently work.
lprm -P ps482 jobnumber
And the same for a non-default printer.

Stopping Run-away Jobs

The printers in the Math Department are currently misconfigured, so that lprm does not work. If you need to stop a job, go to the printer and press the red button labeled ``Cancel Job''. If you need to cancel more than one job, you have to press the button once each job arrives at the printer.

Some printers in the Department don't have this red button. You cannot stop jobs sent to those printers in any reasonable way. Be careful.



Last modified: 1998/08/20
Marcel Oliver (oliver@math.uci.edu)
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