Note on terminology

3one

HP LaserJet 4050 (located in the 3E1b closet)

4one

HP LaserJet 4050 previously set as the default printer for hans (located in room 4N13)

4two

HP LaserJet 8150 currenlty set as the default. In an effort to preserve trees, this printer will only print duplex. Please use either 4one or 4two for simplex (single-sided) printing. [a simplex filter is on the way for this printer; return here later for more details.]

4three

The HP LaserJet 4M+ in 4N13, with 500 sheet paper tray.

4W1

An HP LaserJet Series II printer located in the Undergraduate Office for use only by Faculty and Staff. The purpose of this printer is for faculty to be able to print confidential documents which would be inappropriate for one of the printers in our computer laboratories. NOTE: This room is only open during standard working hours.

1. Never use the printer as a copy machine. That is, do not print duplicate copies on a laser printer. Make one copy. For just a few copies use the photo copy machine in the Math. Department Office. For many copies please give your request to the appropriate person in 4W1.

2. Before printing many pages, check that the printer is working well, for instance, that it has not run out of toner. Faded pages count toward your quotas.

3. Although it may be tempting, do not print out your e-mail, only what is absolutely necessary.

4. Do not print out large standard documents, such as the documentation for WordPerfect or daily news from your home country.

5. For TeX or Graphic output, first preview your output on the screen. This allows you to make corrections before printing. If needed, ask others for assistance in using previewing programs.

6. Programs such as dvips allow you to select portions of the TeX output, so you can avoid printing unnecessary pages. For dvips, to begin at page 5 and print only the next 3 pages (so pages 5, 6, 7) of myfile.dvi use the command:

                dvips -p5 -n3   myfile.dvi
   

   (just giving the command dvips lists all possible options).

7. For printing a thesis or other long paper, try to organize the material into a few smaller files rather than one big file. For example, each chapter can be a separate file. Do not print the whole paper just for a minor modification in one section. It is tempting to think that the current correction will be the last -- but it rarely is.

8. If you print remotely, please pick up your printout immediately. There are many print jobs lying around that get never picked up.

9. Before printing, check the print queue, since if it is long you may prefer to postpone printing. To see all the print queues use the command

   lpq

   Next to each job in the print queue you will see a "job number" that will be needed if you wish to remove your job from the print queue (see below).

10. If the printer does not work or is out of paper and you give up, please remove the print job from the print queue. These print jobs accumulate and when the printer works again it spends a long time printing out papers that in many cases are never claimed. To remove your own job from the queue, first use lpq (see above) to obtain the "job number". Say your print job number is 476. To actually remove this job from the queue use the command

    lprm -P4one 476

    Then (again) use lpq to be sure you made no error and it was removed.

Users have a per-semester allocation of pages they may print, based on the following classifications:

CLASSIFICATION	PAGES
Math Graduate Students who are teaching	400
Math Graduate Students who are not teaching	300
TAs who are not Mathematics Graduate Students	150
Undergraduates	100
Guests (includes Math Graduate Students on leave)	100

REMARK: Here, the summer is counted as a third semester. The "teaching" status only applies to the semesters in which one is teaching. For many TAs, it will not apply for the summer.

In addition, a one-time dissertation supplement of 300 pages is available.

The quotas are cumulative until the beginning of the next Fall Semester. That is, you can save up the unused portion of your paper quotas. For instance, if you anticipate heavy printing during Spring then you can use your balance from the Fall. The quota will be reset each September 1. You cannot "borrow" from future allocation or carry-over to a subsequent academic year.

Just as with the photocopy machine, any pages that go over your allocation will be charged at the cost of $.05 per page. [There is no reduction if you use your own paper since the bulk of the cost is for other supplies and maintenance.]

To check how much you have printed since the past September 1, give the command mypages. The printed page totals are updated daily at around 4AM.

Setting a default printer

setenv PRINTER 4one

One-time printing to a specific printer

Printing a file in DVI format is somewhat different. Use the command:

dvips -P4one filename

where filename is the name of your dvi file and 4one is replaced by the name of the printer you want to use.

Note on HP header pages

To suppress the header page on the HP printers, use lpr -h filename.

Note on printing from Netscape

1. Edit the file called preferences located in your .netscape directory.
2. In that file, under PRINT_COMMAND, change lpr to /usr/ucb/lpr -P4one.