printer setup and commands

OUT OF DATE as of 2008-11-01.

bring up app>>sys settings>>printing and enter sys password

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for hp color in 304 astro lab:

Queue name: Olin304-CLJ4550

Queue type tab:

Queue type: Networked UNIX LPD
server: Olin304-CLJ4550.physics.carleton.edu
queue: Olin304-CLJ4550–(perhaps must be exactly this since it has been set up thus on another.)
Generic: Printer driver: Postscript printer

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for hp color in workroom 311

Queue name: AstroPrinterOlin311

Queue type tab:

Queue type: Networked Jetdirect
server: Olin311-x6350.physics.carleton.edu
port:9100

Generic: Printer driver: Postscript printer

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some useful queries of printer queues:

lpq [-P]

lpstat -v
lpstat -a

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To print to a queue: lpr -P filename

To pretty-print an ascii file to a queue: a2ps -o filename