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Table of Contents

• Printing
  • General
  • Print jobs
  • Known problems
  • Default Printer
  • List of printers at the Institut
  • Quota
    • Students
    • Employees and PhD Students
  • Uncollected Printing
  • Color Printing
  • Poster Printing
  • Restart of the print server
  • Printing with the laptop running Linux/Macintosh
    • After LION OSX (10.7 and higher)
  • Printing with a laptop running Windows
  • Printing via command line
  • Direct Printing
  • Other pages

Printing¶

General¶

Printing is possible via the common software interfaces(e.g. evince, okular, libreoffice, etc.). Please note, that you need to send the printing command only once. If there is a problem, causing the printer to stop working properly, it is unlikely to be solved by pressing "print" multiple times and you might end up with multiple copies of the same document after the problem is solved.

Print jobs¶

Commandline: lpstat -a

Known problems¶

Some PDF-Files aren't printed.
Solution: Expression has to be changed in ps file with option Postscript level2. Then apply ps2ps to the resulting file. Print the result with lpr <file name>.
See also here

Default Printer¶

A default printer is usually assigned to each user. The default printer is nearest printer to the office you used as you got your account. If no default printer is assigned, then it should be set to "kopier" by the system. If you are not sure which printer is set as your default printer, it might be helpful to enter "echo $PRINTER" in a terminal.
Since it is quite complex to set the default printer for all circumstances (even if some hints and programs telling you something else) you have to send a support request to change your default printer.

List of printers at the Institut¶

Only the publicly accessible printers and no workplace printers are listed.

Name	Printer Webpage	Location	Type	Colour	doppelseitig	IP	Comment
mi-grad	http://pgrad.uni-math.gwdg.de	Graduiertenkolleg Lotzestr	HP LaserJet 4015dn		x	89
mi-neben	http://pneben.uni-math.gwdg.de	Nebengebaeude	Konica		x	88
mi-kopier	http://kopier.uni-math.gwdg.de	Main Building Kopierraum H002	Konica		x	83	A3
mi-kopier2	http://kopier2.uni-math.gwdg.de	Main Building Office Math. Institut H209	Konica		x	85	A3
mi-witt	http://pwitt.uni-math.gwdg.de	Main Building in front of Prof. Witt	Konica		x	78
mi-sprech	http://psprech.uni-math.gwdg.de	Main Building Sprechzimmer Bibliothek	HP LaserJet 4015 - one side only		x	87

Also, now one sided printing can be done on two-sided printers. The queue then has the additional 'single' option, e.g. "doublesingle" or "doppelsingle". The double-sided printers can print documents in different binding directions. The additional keyword book allows printing as it is needed for an A5 book.

Quota¶

Students¶

There should be a little window in your account showing your money. Every semester, there is a free 10 Euro quota. If you need additional money on your account, you can load your personal quota at the StudIT office (room 209), the quota for 200 extra pages is 5 Euro.

Employees and PhD Students¶

There is no quota, but we ask you to avoid unnecessary printing to save the environment.

Additional Information http://wiki.student.uni-goettingen.de/support/drucken

Uncollected Printing¶

Print jobs processed on the printer in room 008 are collected regularly and are sometimes stored in the brochure holder located next to the printers on the wall. Before reporting a supposedly lost print job, look there.

Color Printing¶

For color printing, you can use the printers: "ckopier".

Poster Printing¶

We have a A2 / A1 Inkjet Poster Printer Canon IPF 610. It is operated only by the system administrator. The document should be available as PDF at least 4 working days before. The printer is able to enlarge A4 size to A2 or A1. If the poster contains images in a pixel format (jpg, TIFF, png) you can achieved slightly better print quality by changing the document into the target format.

If you wish to print a poster, you should indicate this in a Support-Request as early as possible. At least 4 business days before printing. Then if there are problems is enough time to print the poster document at the GWDG.

A0 prints must be carried out at the GWDG. An account (Eduroam) is needed to do this. Also, plenty of [Druckarbeitseinheiten] must be available.

see:

https://www.gwdg.de/general-services-print-scan-services/large-format-printing

An A0 poster on the queue "Poster" costs 0.55 AE's. A poster high quality of Canon poster printer costs 0.7 AE's. These posters have to be registered with us and will be printed and billed in the presence of the customer by us.

Restart of the print server¶

The print server will restart from time to time. All hanging jobs are deleted then.

Printing with the laptop running Linux/Macintosh¶

After LION OSX (10.7 and higher)¶

Cups works differently there.

System Control
 Printing and Scanning
 + (Enter admin password)
  IP 
   134.76.82.54 (names don't work)
   Choose ipp-Protocol
   printers/<desired printer>
   Location - Set if you want
   Printing driver: always Postscript

http://lapserv.maths.cam.ac.uk/docs/osxprint108.html

Alternatively you can use the Bonjour Protocol:

http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/RZ/netz/drucken/macosx.shtml

Printing with a laptop running Windows¶

Printing via command line¶

The basic commands:

• Print document
  

  lpr <FILENAME>
  
  or
  
  lpr -P <PRINTERNAME> <FILENAME>
  

• show standard printer:
  

  lpstat -d
  

• set standard printer:
  

  lpoptions -d <PRINTERNAME>    
  
  The settings will be saved in
  
  ~/.cups/lpoptions 
  
  

• Display the current print jobs of the print server:
  

  lpstat [-t]
  
  bzw.
  
  lpq -P <PRINTERNAME>
  

• delete print job:
  

  cancel <JOBID>
  
  or without <JOBID> to delete all your print jobs.
  

• Cancel print XY
  

  cancel XYZ
  

• show printlimit
  

  printlimit
  

  
  oder
  

  repykota --printer printers
  

Many Types of files will be recognized automatically, eg Text(ASCII), PostScript (ps), dvi, pdf and jpg. Every other File has to be printed direct from an application (eg LibreOffice Documents) or has to be converted. More information you can get via man cancel, man lpstat, man lpoptions and here

Direct Printing¶

If printing is not working, please enter the following command to print directly:

lp -d Nameoftheprinter Inputfile.ps/.pdf

Nameoftheprinter should be replaced by the name of the printer, while Inputfile.ps/.pdf should be replaced by the type of document *.ps or *.pdf.

Other pages¶

• miprintingproblemsen

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