Printing

Departmental printers are located in Ryerson 160b. They are named ry160b and ry160b-3. You need a key to this room to access them. Two printers are on the 4th floor of Ryerson, for use by the CSPP students: ry402 and ry402-2. There are a number of other printers installed throughout the department. The /etc/printcap file is the authoritative list.

To print to one of these printers from a linux machine, you can use the lpr command: 

lpr -Pry160b myFile.txt

HP 1320 printers are set to print postscript jobs submitted from linux machines in duplex mode. To convert plain text to postscript on a linux machine use a2ps or enscript. To print a postscipt job in simplex mode use the -Z flag in lpr: 

lpr -Z simplex -P ry160b-3 myFile.ps

To choose between duplex and simplex on an HP 1320 from OS X, select File->Print... and then choose Layout in the drop down menu that says Copies & Pages. Click on the Two-Sided radio button that you want (None for simplex, Long Edge for standard duplexing).

Machines in the Regenstein Maclab have a special print configuration that allows them to use the Maclab printserver. This system is maintained by the Maclab tutors. To print to standard department printers, use a printer specification such as: 

ry402-2@printserver.cs.uchicago.edu
For example: 
lpr -Pry160b@printserver.cs.uchicago.edu myFile.txt

We also have a general linux printing guide with further tips.

You can print to our printers from your laptop once you are on our network. See our Laptop Printing guide.