Printing Service |
Written by Scott Ostrander |
Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:54 |
The School of Computing uses a Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) server to manage printing, using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). CUPS provides both lpr and lp style client commands under Unix. Printers are only accessible from within the department's network. If you wish to use the SoC printers from outside the school's firewall, you will need to use the VPN system to establish a link into the school network first. (NOTE: The UConnect wireless network is outside of our firewall.)
The main public printer is csps for single sided printing, and csduplex for double sided. The printer is located in MEB 3401. Various research groups, labs and grad student areas have printers available for their use. You can get a list of printers (under the "Queue Name" column) and other information using the printer web page or the lpstat command: lpstat -t
lpoptions -d grduplex
Documentation for the CUPS system is available via the web. WindowsOn systems running Windows, the printers are available through cups using the form
MacintoshOn Macintosh systems, open the Print & Fax preference pane. In the dialog set the protocol to "IPP" and in the Address (Printer on older Macs) field enter: printspool.cs.utah.edu In the Queue (Spool on older Macs) field enter: printers/name_of_printer_here In the Name field, you can name this printer entry to anything you'd like. Configuring a Self Administrated UNIX System Using CUPSThere are two quick methods to allow a UNIX system within the SoC network to access the CUPS server. If you wish to make the change globally for all users of the system, edit the/etc/cups/client.conf file and add the line:
If you only wish to make the change for your user account on a UNIX system, simply set the $CUPS_SERVER environment variable to "printspool.cs.utah.edu". Printer Status
If you have troubles with printing, first make sure it isn't something obvious like the printer out of paper, jammed, offline or the network cable unplugged. If there is a non-obvious problem, send a message describing the trouble in detail to . |