Printing from Linux machines
by Hanz Makmur - Oct 2009
These instruction will show you how to print to Computer Science
public printers.The first section is for LCSR maintained machines and
second is for user maintained machines. See list of available CS printers for more
details info.
1. Setting Up Printing from CUPS on Linux.
IMPORTANT : by default all print jobs will print with a header/banner page. If you have private printer or plan to print to any color or poster printers, you should turn off the banner page printed before each job.
Other Linux/Unix machines not maintained by LCSR staff may have their own printing engine. These machines are normally administered by the user and beyond the control of LCSR staff. For these machines, the simplest way to print to Computer Science printers is as follow the following:
Install cups software for your Linux OS.
Edit /etc/cups/client.conf and enter this line and save it.
ServerName printserver.cs.rutgers.edu
After your restart your CUPSD, you can print to all printers available on
printserver.cs.rutgers.edu. To test it, you can check the queue by
using lpq command or lpstat to check the status of the queue.
2. Printing from Linux/Unix.
A. Printing to the printer queue from Unix Shell
Once you have setup your linux printer queue, to print you would need to issue one of the following commands:
To print from a Unix shell, normally you would enter:
lpr -Pprintername filename
To print without banner page , enter the following command
lpr
-h -P
artisan filename
To print in single sided on printers defaulting in duplex , you would enter:
lpr -Pprintername -o sides=one-sided filename
There are a lot options you can set with CUPS driver. See CUPS printing
options for further details. CUPS options do not work with SunOS machines.
Note on Printing from SunOS Unix System - Athos/Aramis/Research
Due to lack of drivers on our Unix installation currently, Single sided printing can not be achieved when using lpr command. If you would like to print single side, please print from Linux systems with CUPS driver installed or system with built in driver like Windows, MacOS.
If you have problems or questions, please email
help@cs.rutgers.edu .
