Printing

The department has a number of printers available on the network for use by students and faculty.

Shared Printers

Scientific Computing Lab

The main printer for student use is fang, located in the Scientific-Computing Lab (Olin-B143). fang is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 8000N, a black-and-white printer capable of printing on both sides of a page at 1200 dpi.

Math Workroom

There are three printers located in the math workroom (Olin 1264) for use primarily by faculty and staff, but also by students with an okay from a faculty or staff member.

wuffles is a Canon imageRunner 8070, a high-speed production photocopier capable of printing 80 pages per minute, on both sides of a sheet of paper at 2400 dpi. It can also staple documents and punch two or three holes on-the-fly.
wuffles replaces fluffy, a Canon ImageRunner 5000.
laddie is a Hewlett Package LaserJet M3035xs MFP; a black-and-white multifunction printer that incorporates a duplexing 1200 dpi printer, a 600 dpi color scanner with autofeed, and a facsimile machine.
gaspode is a Hewlett Packard Color LaserJet 5550dtn, a color printer capable of printing on both sides of a page at 3600 dpi.

Math Office

heidi is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4000N, a duplexing black-and-white printer capable of printing double-sided jobs at 1200 dpi.

Clinic Lab

Printers meant primarily for use by students taking part in the Clinic program are located in the department's Clinic lab, Beckman-B115.

hwel is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4100N, a black and white printer capable of printing both sides of a page at 1200 dpi.
mccp is a Hewlett Packard Business InkJet 2250, a networked color inkjet printer capable of printing on one side of a page at 600 dpi.
scraps is Clinic's Hewlett Packard DesignJet 1055cm, a large-format inkjet/plotter capable of printing posters and other large artwork (up to 36" wide or tall). Special permission is necessary for using this printer, as the supplies are expensive and the printer is a bit touchy.

How to Print

The easiest way to print to any of these printers from one of the department's Linux machines is to use the xpp command instead of lpr. xpp gives you a graphical dialog box that allows you to pick the printer you want and then set any options. Most of the duplex-capable printers are already set to do duplex by default, but it never hurts to check.

If you have a PostScript document, you should be able to type a command such as

xpp foo.ps

choose your printer, select any options (you would want “Long Edge (Standard)” for duplexing), then close the options dialog by hitting Return or clicking on the OK button and printing by hitting Return or clicking on the Print button.

xpp also allows you to set some of the more advanced functionality of various printers. For example, fluffy's stapling mode can be set with the options in the second tab labelled “Extra”. Set Stapler Mode to “Corner (Upper Left-P)” for the standard upper-left corner staple on a portrait page.

If you really want to use lpr, you could do

   lpr -P printer -o sides=two-sided-long-edge foo.ps

There's more information about printing with our backend printing system, CUPS, available in the CUPS User's Manual (assuming you're on a math department Linux machine).

Posters

The department's DesignJet 1055 can be used for printing posters (up to 36" wide). more information (including PowerPoint templates) is available. We also have a LaTeX poster class that can be used.

Other Printers

You may see other printers on the network. Most of these belong to professors or staff, and aren't meant for general printing. If you want to print to a faculty or staff member's computer, check with them and get an okay first.