This is an old revision of the document!
Printing is provided in two different ways:
cups.matfys.lth.se
. Machines should connect to it to print. Clusters and Workstations are automatically connected to all the printers served by it.Printers can be seen by issuing
lpstat -a
at the command line. Example:
pflorido@myon:~$ lpstat -a copy-n accepting requests since tor 6 feb 2014 15.55.56 copy-t accepting requests since tor 6 feb 2014 16.45.47 cp4525dn accepting requests since tis 4 feb 2014 11.33.28 maria accepting requests since tor 30 maj 2013 19.24.17 oldprinter accepting requests since tor 16 jan 2014 11.22.35 print2 accepting requests since tor 6 feb 2014 16.10.01 printer accepting requests since tor 6 feb 2014 17.17.13
If you have a personal machine or a windows machine you should read further.
Linux laptops and Apple or Windows machines would need to install all the printers manually.
Get to the Matfys print room and note the printer names. You will need those later.
There are four ways of installing the drivers:
Root privileges: not needed
use your printer system configurator to add the printer. It may vary depending on distributions.
When asked for the printer, choose to add a network printer and type in the URL:
ipp://cups.matfys.lth.se:631/printers/<printername>
e.g.
ipp://cups.matfys.lth.se:631/printers/maria
Repeat the above for each printer you want to add.
This should not require drivers, as they are provided by the CUPS server.
Test with lpstat -a
, you should see the list of configured printers.
Root privileges: needed
The printers can be added directly to the current cups configuration using a configuration file.
Be careful: backup
/etc/cups/printers.conf
before you proceed.
Follow these steps:
sudo service cups stop
/etc/cups/printers.conf
file and save.sudo service cups start
lpstat -a
, you should see the list of configured printers.Root privileges: needed
This solution might prevent you to use printers outside Matfys. Use it only if you know where to put your hands.
Follow these steps:
sudo service cups stop
/etc/cups/client.conf
(create it if it doesn't exist): ServerName cups.matfys.lth.se
lpstat -a
, you should see the list of all configured printers.If you use this, remember to comment out the ServerName line in client.conf and restart cups if you travel to a location outside Matfys.
Root privileges: might be needed if you need to install new drivers
Why is this evil? because this bypasses the print server. That means that is more likely to jam the print queue in the printer itself (will need a restart) and jam the printer itself if the driver is misconfigured (hopefully a restart will be enough
). Use at your own risk.
Install the printer drivers yourself, and then install the printer by getting its network address.
This may vary depending on the printer vendor, and Linux may or may not have the drivers.
In short, all you need to do is to provide the hostname of the printer. In most cases it will work if you use
socket://<printer FQDN>:9100
e.g.
socket://maria.matfys.lth.se:9100
I will write them when I have time. For the moment being, the only thing I can suggest is:
http://cups.matfys.lth.se:631/printers/printername
e.g.
http://cups.matfys.lth.se:631/printers/maria
No idea. OSX uses the same CUPS system as linux ,so I guess it's easy. If anybody wants to write this, contact me.
To be written. Please book a time with me if you need to install.
If you're brave, this should work:
Root privileges: might be needed if you need to install new drivers
Why is this evil? because this bypasses the print server. That means that is more likely to jam the print queue in the printer itself (will need a restart) and jam the printer itself if the driver is misconfigured (hopefully a restart will be enough
). Use at your own risk.
Install the printer drivers yourself, and then install the printer by getting its network address. When choosing the printer driver, I suggest either PS or PCL. The result may vary depending on the printer.
This may vary depending on the printer vendor, and Linux may or may not have the drivers.
In short, all you need to do is to provide the hostname of the printer. In most cases it will work if you use
socket://<printer FQDN>:9100
e.g.
socket://maria.matfys.lth.se:9100
As you might have seen there is a new printer from Canon in the print room. This printer is too
new for the current print server. Therefore I installed it on monofrutti.matfys.lth.se
which has a newer version of OpenSuSE. I will update the main print server once I have time.
The printer is called newprinter as the old one.
On a personal laptop you might follow instructions as I wrote above in GNU/Linux, just changing the CUPS server to monofrutti.matfys.lth.se
For Workstations, Clusters and machines that support the lp
command, you can print by using the lp command pointing at the alternative print server. Example:
lp -h monofrutti.matfys.lth.se -d newprinter mycolorfulfile.pdf
Follow the steps in Windows but replace cups.matfys.lth.se
with monofrutti.matfys.lth.se
The copier can only operate with codes. There are two codes depending on the faculty you belong. Please do not switch queues if the queue you're using doesn't work, please contact me.
If you don't know the code, contact Katarina.
The following copier queues should be used on workstations:
Use this queue… | … if you belong to |
---|---|
copy-n | N-fak |
copy-t | LTH |
If you experience problems printing from KDE or command line:
User Password (max ...) User ID (max)
and set both to None
To pass the codes to the print queue (should not be needed after you do the KDE thing above, but in any case):
lpr -o UserID=<code> -o UserPassword=<code> -Pcopy-t yourfile
It seems the driver for this printer is different than the previous one and KDE always tries to fallback to some weird default.
Happy printing!