Publicly accessible DPMMS Printers

Pavilion C

petrucci   HP LaserJet 4250dtn     C0.23
giunti     HP LaserJet 4250dtn     C0.25
oporinus   colour photocopier      C1.17 - nearer door
herbst     black and white copier  C1.17 - nearer window
caxton     HP LaserJet 4250dtn     C1-east
gutenberg  HP LaserJet 4250dtn     C1-west
clj1       HP LaserJet 3800dtn     outside Sally's office - colour laser printer

Pavilion D

           HP DesignJet 500    outside D1.03 - inkjet poster printer
                               prints on rolls of 2ft wide paper

Pavilion E

muller     HP LaserJet 4250dtn E0.23
heidelberg HP LaserJet 4250dtn E0.25

tyndale    HP LaserJet 4250dtn E1.14
phaistos   photocopier         E1.14
zouca      HP LaserJet 4250dtn outside E1.01

The DPMMS computers have not been set up to use the Stats Lab printers in Pavilion D.

The extra features of oporinus, herbst and phaistos can probably be used with kprinter (though they were easier to use with qtcups on older machines). You can now print 100 copies of a 20 page, double-sided, stapled, A3 document - provided there is enough paper.

Printing from Laptops

Please see the CMS laptop web page how to print from the laptop network. Please remember to authenticate before trying to print.

Alternatively, for Linux machines running CUPS, you could point your cups server at our print server cups.dpmms.cam.ac.uk

Printing from the new DPMMS Linux system

In the new (2007) DPMMS Linux kprinter replaces qtcups. The commands lpr, lpq and lprm work just as before. However there are two major changes to the way you drive it: you no longer add -single to the printer name to print single-sided, and there are lots more options you can set whey you submit a print request.

The easiest way of controlling these options is to use a command like
   kprinter filename.ps
   a2ps -o - file.txt | kprinter
or even
   dvips -o '!kprinter' ~/TeX/Application.dvi These all pop up a dialogue box which allows you to set any of the options available on that printer, and then prints the file with those settings. There is a "save" button which allow you change your default settings for that printer.

Using the new print options from the command line

If you want to use the command line lpoptions -p printername (small 'p') shows the current settings and lpoptions -p printername -l (the -l must be after the printer name) shows the possible values for all the options. lpr -Pprinter -o option=value filename.ps prints the file with a specified value for an option.

For example lpr -Pcaxton -o Duplex=None filename.ps prints the file single sided, and lpr -Pclj1 -o MediaType=Transparency filename.ps prints the file on transparencies on the colour laser printer.

Please let me know if the available options doesn't match the capabilities of any of the printers, I may have miss configured one.

Manuals

Probably only of interest to computer officers.

We also have a number of HP manuals, including service manuals, which as they are PDFs we haven't found necessary to put online. See /usr/dpmms/adm/printing/manuals/