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Printers
Note that if you are on the Visitors Network "Pink cables" please refer to the guide to Visitor Network Printing
List of Printers
A number of laser printers are available on site for general use. Details and specifications are outlined in the table below.
List of public printers (ATNF Narrabri)
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Laser Printer
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Location / Description
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HP Colour LaserJet 5550 DTN
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Observers' Area, Colour laser, Duplex A3/A4
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Sharp MX3501
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Admin Area, Colour, Duplex, A4
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HP Colour LaserJet 2650
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Lodge (next to piano), Duplex, A4
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Instructions on how to print documents have been provided for the following operating systems: Windows XP, Solaris and VMS systems. See the descriptions in the tables below for more information.
Windows XP
Printing files in Windows XP is straightforward once the printers have been setup in your profile under your NEXUS account.
To Print a file (in most applications)
- Go to File / Print, and then select the printer of your choice.
To check that a printer is installed (in your NEXUS account)
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Go to Start / Printers and Faxes and check that the printer driver has been installed. If the printer driver is installed, a printer icon with it's associated name will be displayed.
- Selecting a printer and right clicking on the icon will allow you to set printing defaults and view the properties of the printer.
To add a printer
- Go to Start / Printers and Faxes and click the Add a printer icon.
- Click Next to launch the "Add Printer Wizard"
- Select Network printer
- Select the following option "Type the printer name, or click Next to browse for a printer"
To add a network printer
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Note that the print server is ningadhun-cj which resides in the NEXUS domain
- Go to Start / Run and type \\ningadhun-cj and hit return
- A window with network resources on ningadhun-cj pops up
- Double click on the printer you want
- OR (long way)
- Go to Start / Printers and Faxes. Click the Add a printer icon.
- Click Next to launch the "Add Printer Wizard"
- Select the option A network printer, or a printer attached to another computer. Click Next
- Select the option Connect to this printer (or to browse for a printer, select this option and click Next);
- Click on Next, and wait a while (30 seconds to a minute depending on the state of the network).
- A list of shared printers will appear, with NEXUS displayed as the first item, indicating the name of the Windows Domain
- Scroll down to the fileserver ningadhun-cj
- Double click the ningadhun-cj icon. A list of all the shared printers will be displayed that are served from this fileserver
- Select the printer of your choise and click Next
- If successful, the Printer Wizard will ask you if you want to make the printer you've just added the default printer. Select Yes or No and click Next to continue
- The newly installed printer driver should now appear in the Printers and Faxes window.
How to set Default Printing Preferences
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Setting default printing preferences is particularly useful if you want to preserve printer settings for all applications executed within a user's Windows profile.
- Right click on the Printer Icon corresponding to the printer you wish to use. The list of available printers is accessible by going to Start / Printers and Faxes.
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Select Printing Preferences
- Select options of your choice with regards to Orientation, Duplexing, Page Size etc and click OK
List of printers / Windows Share name(s)
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Laser Printer
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Windows Share Name
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Location / Description
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HP LaserJet 5500 DTN
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\\ningadhun-cj\cacolour
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Observers' Area, Control Building, Level 1, Colour laser, A4
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HP LaserJet 5M
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\\ningadhun-cj\Lodge Colour Laser
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Lodge (next to piano), Colour Laser, A4
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Sharp MX3501 Multifunction
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\\ningadhun-cj\mx3501
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Admin Area, Control Building, Ground Level A4
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Unix / Linux
The basic command for printing in a Unix environment is the lpr command. The table below describes similar commands.
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Command
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Description
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lpr -Pprinter_name filename
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Print the file filename to the printer printer_name
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lpq -Pprinter_name
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Check the print queue on printer_name
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lprm -Pprinter_name job_number
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Remove the print job from the printer queue corresponding to the specified printer name. The job number can be obtained by using the lpq command.
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lp -d printer_name filename
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Print the file filename to the printer printer_name
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lpstat -o printer_name
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Shows the jobs queue on the specified destination printer_name
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lpstat -a printer_name
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Shows the accepting state of the printer queue printer_name
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Table of Postscript Printers
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Laser Printer
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Unix queue name
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Location / Description
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HP Colour LaserJet 5550 DTN
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cacolour
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Observers' Area, Colour laser, A4
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HP Colour LaserJet 2650
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caadmin
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Lodge (next to piano), Duplex, A4
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Sharp MX3501 MultiFunction
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casharp
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Admin Area, Duplex, A4/A3
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How to print multiple pages per sheet
- Use the mpage command (/usr/local/bin/mpage) to print either 2,4 or 8 pages onto one page. Thie command only works with POSTSCRIPT files.
- Example: To print the postscript file test.ps to the HP LaserJet 5550 DTN, 4 pages per sheet in landscape mode you would use the following
mpage -4l -Pcacolour test.ps
- For more details on the available options type man mpage
Original: John Giovannis (20th Jan 2004), modified: Brett Lennon (January 14, 2009)