Printing to Ryerson Printers from a Laptop

This document describes how to configure your laptop to print to any of the public printers in Ryerson. You must have a current CS account.

Overview

Ryerson printer names generally match the room they are located in, eg "ry402". This is also the printer queue name. Our printserver is named printserver.cs.uchicago.edu and we use TCP/IP printing, sometimes refered to as network or Unix or LPD or LPR printing.

The following instructions assume your laptop is currently connected to the Internet. In Ryerson, you can connect using either a wired or a wireless connection.

Public Printers in Ryerson

Two printers are on the 4th floor of Ryerson, for use by the CSPP students:
  • Printer Name: ry402
    • Make: HP
    • Model: LaserJet 5000DN
  • Printer Name: ry402-2
    • Make: HP
    • Model: LaserJet 8150N

Two printers are located in Ryerson 163:
  • Printer Name: ry160b
    • Make: Xerox
    • Model: Docuprint N4525
  • Printer Name: ry160b-2
    • Make: Lexmark
    • Model: Optra 1625

Public Printer in Hinds

One printer is located in Hinds 032:
  • Printer Name: hinds032
    • Make: HP
    • Model: LaserJet 8150N

Windows XP

Enable LPR printing. You only need to do this once:
  1. Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs
  2. Click Add/Remove Windows Components
  3. Choose Other network file and print services and click on details
  4. Select Print Services for UNIX, click next, click finish
Then, for each printer you want to add:
  1. Control Panel, Printers and Faxes
  2. Click on Add a Printer
  3. Use the Wizard
  4. Select Local printer or stand-alone network printer and DESELECT the Automatically detect... checkbox. Click next.
  5. Click Create a new port and choose "LPR port" as your new port. Click next.
  6. Enter "printserver" for the host name and the appropriate printer name (see above) for the queue name (e.g. "ry402-2")
  7. At this point just follow the prompts. You may have to install a printer driver.
  8. You should now be able to print.

Linux

A nice tool to configure linux printers is printconf-gui. This is available under redhat and can be installed as a package on other systems.
  1. Open a terminal window such as xterm
  2. Become the root suser: type su
  3. Type printconf-gui.
  4. Enter the following as prompted, for one of the public printers in Ryerson listed above.
    • Queue name is the name of printer, for example ry402-1
    • The Queue Type is Unix Printer
    • The server is printserver.cs.uchicago.edu
    • Select the Make and Model of the printer as listed above.
    • Push the button labeled Finish
  5. You should now be able to print to this printer.

Mac OS-X

  1. System Preferences Print and Fax Set up Printer
  2. Click Add
  3. Select IP Printing Printer Type: LPD/LPR
  4. Printer Address: printserver.cs.uchicago.edu
  5. Queue Name: (Put a Ryerson printer name here, for example ry402, see public printers in Ryerson above)
  6. Printer Model: (Enter the model of the printer, see Printers above)
  7. Click Add
  8. You should now be able to print to this printer.