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Laser Printing


General access laser printing is provided on an HP LaserJet 5Si MX named cresap115. This printer is located in Cresap Hall, in room 115, which is part of the Cresap computer lab complex. See Computing Labs and Teaching Facilities for information about the lab location, hours of operation, equipment and software.


DESCRIPTION

The cresap115 laser printer is located in the Cresap Lab room 115, and is operated as a self-service printer. Output is collected in a set of 8 rotating mailboxes attached to the printer.

When you print a job on this printer, it is your responsibility to remove your output from the printer mailbox immediately. There are no printer attendants to monitor the printer mailboxes, nor are additional output bins available to hold printouts for later pickup.

Please refer all printing problems to the Cresap Lab manager, who will fill the paper input trays, recycle anything in the output mailboxes, and generally maintain the printer.

This printer is only to be used by UNIX users in the SSCC (people using seldon, hardin and mule, for example). It is not available to PC or Mac users in the Cresap Lab, and it is not a backup printer for the lab.

FEATURES

cresap115 is an HP LaserJet 5Si MX with a 2,000 sheet input tray, a duplex assembly that provides two-sided output, and a multibin output mailbox with 8 bins, each holding 250 sheets of paper. The printer is rated at 24 pages per minute, with a duty cycle of 100,000 pages per month. Resolution is 600 dpi with more than 120 levels of gray. It prints normal text files as well as PostScript Level 2 files, and automatically switches languages, as appropriate. The first page is printed less than 16 seconds after receipt of data.

Duplex (2-sided) printing is configured ON as a default. Page binding is on the long edge.

Portrait mode is configured ON as a default.

Special forms are not permitted. Only 8.5- x 11-inch plain white paper is provided.

USAGE Examples

Print your SAS log and listing files, printed on both sides of the paper:
lp -dcresap115 labor.log labor.lst

Print the man page for Stata:
man -t stata | lp -dcresap115

Print a PostScript file:
lp -dcresap115 WhitePaper.ps

Pretty print a Fortran program file:
lp -dcresap115 -o prettyprint optimize.f90

Print your SAS log and listing files, with 2 pages of output printed on each side of the paper:
lp -dcresap115 -o number-up=2 labor.log labor.lst

Much more information about printing may be found in the CUPS Software Users Manual

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