Printing in BMSDL

Printing

BMSDL facility has two printers:

HP LaserJet 4100 (vwl-hp1)
Xerox Tektronix Phaser 8200 color printer (vwl-8200)

BSD printing

This is the preferred way to print in BMSDL. All users are strongly encouraged to use this BSD scheme for all printing needs. In this priniting scheme, the following commands are used:

lpr

submit a job to a printer

lpq

request a status of a submitted job

lprm

remove a submitted job

Unless otherwise specified, all the above commands assume a default printer. Default printer vwl-hp1 is set in the system-wide initialization file by setting environment variable PRINTER to value vwl-hp1. However, this can be overriden by supplying printer name on command line using -P option:

lpr -Pprintername myfile.ps

This command will send file myfile.ps to the printer printername

lpq -Pprintername

This command will display the status of the print queue on the printer printername

A typical printing session would be:

% lpq # get the status of the queue on the default printer

job: zeke.medc.umn.edu:yuri; status: waiting; source: LocalTalk
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
active yuri       63   w.ps                                  259040 bytes

% lpr myfile.ps # send a myfile.ps to default printer
% lpq

job: zeke.medc.umn.edu:yuri; status: waiting; source: LocalTalk
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
active yuri       63   w.ps                                  259040 bytes
1sr    user       64   myfile.ps                             111333 bytes

% lprm 64 # remove the job with id 64 on the default printer

The color printer in BMSDL is named BMSDL-8200, this is the name that has to be supplied with -P switch:
lpr -PBMSDL-8200 mycolorfile.ps

All other BSD printing commands can be used in the same way.

If you have any problems or questions, use the help request form.

This information is available in alternative formats upon request by individuals with disabilities. Please send email to alt-format@msi.umn.edu or call 612-624-0528.

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