Printers en printen

Printers

Most printers are departmental printers. These printer are owned by some department and are meant to be used by people belonging to that department only. The department has purchased the printer and is responsible for paper, supplies and maintenance.

There are also a lot of printers that can be used by everybody. These printers are generally maintained by C&CZ, but also the department Grafische Vormgeving has printers that can be used, up to A0 size. In case of problems or complaints about the C&CZ-managed printers, contact C&CZ.

Below is a list of all C&CZ-managed printers, split up by type.

Line printer (Epson-FX80 compatible)

name	location	brand/type
lp5	HG00.002	Mannesmann-Tally 645

Postscript black and white printers

name	location	brand/type	Special
jansteen	HG00.002	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
monet	HG00.019	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
gray	HG00.113	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
chagall	HG00.201	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
escher	HG01.002	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
sievert	HG01.002	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
watt	HG01.089	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
newton	HG02.038	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
rubens	HG02.038	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
klee	HG02.089	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
joule	HG03.002	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
hertz	HG03.038	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
ruisdael	HG03.038	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
toorop	HG03.079	HP LaserJet 4350DTN	Duplex, A4 only
henry	HG03.089	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
becquerel	ML01.10	Ricoh Aficio MP 5000	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible

When using Adobe Acrobat version 8 the PostScript driver generates code which often produces an unrecoverable error on the printers mentioned above.

Postscript color printers

name	location	merk/type	Special
weber	HG00.011	Ricoh Aficio MP C2500	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
pascal	HG00.089	Ricoh Aficio MP C2500	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
vangogh	HG01.089	HP Color LaserJet 8550DN	Duplex, A3 and transparancies possible
ohm	HG02.002	Ricoh Aficio MP C2500	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
kelvin	HG02.089	Ricoh Aficio MP C2500	Duplex, A3, scanning and copying possible
vermeer	HG03.002	HP Color LaserJet 9500HDN	Duplex, A3 and transparancies possible
miro	HG03.089	Xerox Phaser 7300DX	Duplex and A3 possible
nicolas	HG03.089	HP Business Inkjet 2250TN	Only transparancies (A4)

The printers that are capable of duplex (double sided) printing, wil print all documents double sided, except documents that are explicitly marked as being single sided.

Do not use a color printer for black&white prints of a color file ==

Printing in black & white on a color printer can produce color. The most frequent (but not the only!) problems are:

• lpr -Zg only works if the file does not contain any printer settings. If it is made by a printer driver (using 'print to file'), then the driver settings take priority.
• Printing PDF with Acrobat on a color Ricoh printer always seems to produce a color print, despite explicitly selecting the B & W option.

So if you want to be sure that someting is printed in black & white (and you pay the black & white price), always use a printer that can only print in black & white.

Printing using Windows

Windows2000/XP

First connect a network drive from the printer-server, this will show errors if there is something wrong with your login or password. Connecting this network drive can be accomplished in a 'Windows Explorer' window like 'My Documents'. Click on 'Tools' -> 'Map Network Drive...' and choose for the 'Folder:' \\printer-srv\printerdrivers. Then you can add a new printer using 'Start' -> 'Settings' -> 'Printers and Faxes', select the pinter task 'Add a printer'. Choose 'A network printer ...', choose 'Connect to this printer ...' and type \\printer-srv\printernaam in the 'Name:' field, for example \\printer-srv\jansteen. Now you can select to make it the default printer. Finally click 'Finish'.

If you manage your PC or laptop yourself, the most simple solution is to create an account name and password identical to your FNWI account. Then Windows will automatically use the correct account name and password. An other solution would be to connect to the printer using 'Connect using a different user name'.

Windows95/98/ME/NT

Install a printer (\\printer-srv\jansteen as an example):

• Click: 'Start' -> 'Settings' -> 'Printers'
• Doubleclick: 'Add Printer'
• Select: 'Network printer' (but for Windows NT select 'local printer').
• Network path: \\printer-srv\jansteen
  (for the dbf-domain \\admiraal\jansteen)

Now click several times on 'Next', select 'Default Printer' as needed and deselect 'Would you like to print a test page'. You can change the settings of the printer in de tabs you get when selecting 'Properties'.

For departmental printers it is usually necessary to select the brand en model of the printer, except when C&CZ has added the printer to the Samba list of printerdefinitions (/usr/local/samba/lib/printers.def).

Printing using a Managed Linux PC

With kprinter you can choose your default printer ("Set as Default"). Deselect under System Options that every application should use the last selected printer ("defaults to the last printer used in the application").

To show a printer queueu, use lpq. All other ways, like the graphical application, always show an empty queue.

The print system for Linux machines differs a lot from the Sun machines, but the warning mentioned for Sun machines also holds for the Linux machines.

Printing using other Linux machines

In linux one can choose to print the same way Windows-machines do, through SMB to a Samba-server.

• As device URI, type smb://username:/printername, where you have to fill in your own username and password and must use the offical name of the printer in printername

Printing using a MacOS machine

OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

• Open “System Preferences”, select “Print & Fax”
• Press the ”+” button, it will open the “Printer Browser”
• Click in the Toolbar on "Advanced" (if unavailable: right click on the menu en choose "Customize Toolbar... ", drag the "Advanced" icon into the Toolbar)
• Enter requested data:
  • Type: Windows
  • URL: smb://loginnaam:/printernaam
  • Name and location: make your own choice. Select, if you desire, the precise printer model.
• Click “Add”, and you’re done!

OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

• Open “System Preferences”, select “Print & Fax”
• Press the ”+” button, it will open the “Printer Browser”
• Now, press ALT and then click (with ALT still down) “More Printers”, and a dialog box appears
• The top selector should be on “Advanced”, and the second selector should be on “Windows Printer via SAMBA”
• As device name you can choose the name which you prefer to refer to the printer
• As device URI, type smb://username:/printername, where you have to fill in your own username and password and must use the offical name of the printer in printername
• Select, if you desire, the precise printer model (for example HP Laserjet 4200 series printer with 500-sheet input tray and duplex unit and 64 MB memory)
• Click “Add”, and you’re done!

Printing using a Sun machine

The online manual man lpr describes all options of the lpr command. These options are only applicable to text- en DVI- and for PostScript documents which have no explicit printer dependencies.

Whenever documents are created on a PC, then the options in the document - options that where set in the printerdriver at the time of printing - always have precedence over the lpr-options. The lpr-options also have no influence when printing PCL or PDF documents.

Beware: This implies that printing, using the lpr -Zg document.ext can result in unexpected, 'expensive' color pages.

Some examples for the printer vermeer:

Command	Description
lpr -Pvermeer report.dvi	A4, double sided
lpr -Pvermeer -gsigma report.dvi	A4, double sided, of budget "sigma"
lpr -Pvermeer -Zs report.dvi	A4, single sided
lpr -Pvermeer -Zs,c=10 report.dvi	A4, single sided, 10 copies
lpr -Pvermeer -Za3 cola.ps	A3 (and single sided)
lpr -Pvermeer -Zf cola.ps	Transparancy (and single sided :-)

Costs

Use of the line printer is free. All other printers you have to pay per page. The costs of a printjob (number of pages * page price) are automatically deducted from your budget. You need to have a (positive) budget.

Beware: if there is just one single color pixel on a page, the printer will register a color page and your budget will be charged for color.

name	price per page	Special
all PostScript laserprinters	€ 0,035	A4 black&white
all PostScript color laserprinters	€ 0,23	A4 color
all PostScript color laserprinters	€ 0,495	transparancy black/white
all PostScript color laserprinters	€ 0,69	transparancy color
all PostScript color laserprinters	€ 0,16	A3 black/white
all PostScript color laserprinters	€ 0,55	A3 color
nicolas	€ 1,40	always transparancy

Medio 2005 the page prices were recalculated and determined. Rules used in calculation: 1) C&CZ does not make a profit from printing, 2) page prices are the same on all printers and 3) all costs (initial purchase, maintenance, paper, supplies, headerpages) are included in the calculation. The price for a black&white page is based on the costs for pages printed by a black&white laserprinter like the HP4350DN. De surplus costs of the more expensive color laserprinters like the HP9500HDN are included in the price of a color page.

Binding, cutting, stapling, ...

In the Faculty Library you can buy binders for your reports, etc. Also there is a cutting tool, a 23 hole punch and several staplers. All Ricoh printers can staple automatically.

Next to the printers "miro/henry/nicolas" (HG03.089) one can also find a cutting tool and a big stapler.

Using different paper types

If you want to print on something other than plain paper (60-81 g/m^2), then you need to specify the paper type. In kprinter you need to select Properties and choose the right paper type. For example if you use 82-105 g/m^2 paper on a Ricoh printer, choose Middle Thick; for 106-253 g/m^2 choose either Thick, Thick 2 or Thick 3 with increasing thickness.

If you don't do this, the printer ink might not stick to the paper well enough, which leads to ink stains on both your documents and the printer itself.

Note: These options are not available when you print using the command line.