The print commands have completely changed on the new systems. The following description is right now ONLY VALID for sessions FROM Sun Workstations, Xterminals and Xterminal emulations (on PCs) in OUR (Math/Stats) DEPARTMENT (including Xterminals which are connected to our department)! On all other machines/systems printing will stay as it allways was (at least for the time being). The print command is now lp -dprinter-name filename printer-name can be: chase-001 chase-mailroom chase-219 (for office staff only!) chem-501 (for users of P. Wentzell's group) lsc-829 (for users of R. Meyers's group) hp4500 (restricted to special users) The print command will now automatically distiguish between normal text and PS files (no options needed and no more garbage printouts). Temporary restrictions: printer chase-001 can print only doubled sided. If you need single sided printouts use chase-mailroom The command 'lpstat' will give you information about the status of the printers and print jobs. Here is an example of a print session: chase$ lp pinerc request id is chase-001-10 (1 file(s)) chase$ lpstat chase-001-10 kassiem 289 Aug 14 00:34 on chase-001 The printjob number is chase-001-10. The command 'cancel printjob-number' is used to cancel a printjob, e.g. cancel chase-001-10 Printing a DVI file ------------------- There are several ways to print a dvi file: 1. If the PRINTER environment variable is set (that is if the command 'echo $PRINTER' gives you a printer name) then dvips dvi-filename will print the file on your default printer 2. If the PRINTER environment variable is not set (that is if the command 'echo $PRINTER' gives you just a blank) then use dvips dvi-filename | lp -dchase-001 or dvips dvi-filename | lp -dchase-mailroom 3. Alternatively you can create a ps-file from the dvi file and send the ps file to the printer. dvips dvi-filename -o ps-filename lp -dchase-001 ps-filename 4. The printer chase-001 will print by default duplex (both sides of the paper are used). If you want to print on that printer singled sided you have to use the option -o simplex , eg. lp -dchase-001 -o simplex ps-filename 5. The options -o legal has to be used if you want to print on legal size paper. This option does work for TEXT files only (because the paper size to be used is normally defined within the PS file and you can not change that externally via the printer) 6. The option -o manual has to be used if you want to feed a sheet of paper to the manual feeder of the printer. This option should be generally not used. 7. Printing on legal size paper: This can be done only for TEXT files and DVI files. For TEXT files use option -o simplex with the lp command. For DVI files you have to convert these files to PS files: dvips -t legal -o ps-filename dvi-filename lp -dchase-001 ps-filename 8. The command lp -o landscape textfile will print a text (ascii) file in landscape format. This command will not work for ps-files. Other printing problems: Sometimes a ps file is not printed on one printer (eg. chase-001) but it is printed on another printer (eg. chase-mailroom). When this behaviour happens go to the printer where your ps file is NOT printed. If the printer is printing other print jobs wait till they are finished. Then switch the printer off and on again. If paper jam occurs please DON'T use force to remove any paper in the printer. If you are not sure what to do DO NOTHING and ask somebody what to do or go to the main office and report the problem. WHAT YOU SHOULD NOT DO: ======================= DON'T send DVI, PDF, DOC (eg. from MS Word), JPG to the printers! The printers can handle only ascii TEXT and PS files. To print other formats either convert the format into a TEXT od PS format or use the appropiate spplicstion to read and print your document, eg. Acrobat Reader for PDF files or StarOffice for MS Office and WordPerfect documents.