Printing

All instructional accounts have access to the printers in room 1359. The print spool that services those printers is called laser. To send a file to the printer, you can use either lpr or print. print only works with text files and includes a banner across each page indicating the filename, page number, time, and username. If you send a postscript or graphics file with the print command, you will use up your paper quota by printing useless gibberish. Use the lpr command instead.

[bbadger@demo01] (1)$ lpr file

[bbadger@demo01] (1)$ print file

Your print job will be sent to the first available printer. All files sent to the printer are put in a queue and printed in order of arrival. You can use the command lpq to display the queues of all the laser printers and determine to which your job was sent. Also there are 2 print monitors in 1359 which display the status of the two printers.

You also have the ability to remove a job while it is still in the queue with the lprm command. The following will remove all of your print jobs.

[bbadger@demo01] (1)$ lprm login

Where login is your login name.

Students are given a 150 page paper quota per class. This amount of paper should be plenty to cover all printing needs for one class, but if there is a need for more paper, it can be purchased at the Computer Systems Lab (room 2350) for a small fee (payable by check or money order only). Plan ahead if you start to run low on paper, as the CSL is only open during normal business hours, Monday through Friday.

To see how much paper you have and how much you have used, use the lpquota command.

Note that it is your responsibility to check that the printer is working before you send your files. That is, if you send your printout to a printer which is low in toner or printing streaks, your paper quota will not be reimbursed. Please send mail to lab@cs.wisc.edu if you notice a printer with problems.