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Black and White Duplex (default)
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The default printer is HP LaserJet 2300DN, located in B3. The
queue name is lj2300 and is set to toner saving mode and resolution
600dpi. Each user has a quota of 300 pages per 31 days on this queue. This
should be more than enough.
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Prefered command:
lp or lp -d lj2300
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Old-fashioned way:
lpr or lpr -P lj2300
NON Duplex Printing
Sometimes you may want to print single-sided (e.g. for faster
printing of many copies of a single page). This can be done by
sending the job to the queue lj2300/simplex. It is the same
printer HP LaserJet 2300DN, located in B3
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Prefered command: lp -d lj2300/simplex
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Old-fashioned way: lpr -P lj2300/simplex
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Color:
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The color printer is HP Color LaserJet 5M located in B3.
Color printing is more expensive, thus the quota is 50
color pages per 31 day period per user. If you have
legitimate reason to print more than this please contact
the system administrator.
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Preffered command:
lp -d hpclj5m
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Old-fashioned way:
lpr -Phpclj5m
Print Status
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You can check the print status of the black and white
printer with the command lpstat or lpq.
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For the color printer use lpstat -a hpclj5m or
lpq -Phpclj5m.
Problems with printing
- The printers are a bit old and do not understand the
newest postscript commands. Sometimes jobs from abiword,
gnumeric, acroread etc. fail to print. Sometimes it is
possible to fix this by first printing from your
application to a file and then processing the output
with ps2ps. This converts the postscript file to
more standardized postscript format and in most cases
the result prints fine.
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