Printing in the Grad Labs

The Graduate Labs include Room 300 and the ICT4D Lab (Room 3A.1).

Warning

Please be mindful of the amount you print as you will be asked to justify excessive printing.

For assistance, please contact the Systems Administrators at help@cs.uct.ac.za.

Requirements

To use this printing service you need:

Printers

There are two printers available:

Location

Printer

Windows Path

Linux Path

Room 300

anic

\\ps0.cs.uct.ac.za\anic

smb://ps0.cs.uct.ac.za/anic

ICT4D

charcoal

\\ps0.cs.uct.ac.za\charcoal

smb://ps0.cs.uct.ac.za/charcoal

Operating System

Follow the instructions for setting up printing on your operating system.

Linux/Unix

These instructions have been tested on the Ubuntu linux distribution. They should work for other versions of Ubuntu without much change.

They should also work for other distributions of linux or unix (such as MacOS X) which use of the CUPS printing system, though the configuration utilities may differ and you may need to do your own detective work to figure out where to enter the configuration options in the instructions below.

Note

You will need sudo / root privileges on the workstation to be able to install and configure the printer.

Instructions

These instructions have been written for Ubuntu.

  1. Log into the graphical user interface (GUI) as a user with sudo

    privileges.

  2. Open the Settings app. Select Printers > Add…

  3. Click “Add” to add a new printer. The “New Printer” dialog should

    appear.

  4. In the Enter URI field, enter the Linux URL from the table above.

  5. Click the Verify button to test this configuration. If you entered

    the above information correctly, you should see a Print Share Verified dialog box. Click the OK button to continue.

  6. Click the “Forward” button to continue to the next step of the the

    printer configuration.

    A “Searching for drivers” dialog should appear. Please wait while the system collects information about available print servers on your system. This may take a few minutes. The dialog should eventually disappear.

  7. The “Choose Driver” dialog should appear. Click “Select printer from

    database” and select “HP” from the list of printer Makes provides. Click the “Forward” button to continue with the next stage of the printer configuration.

  8. A list of printer Models will be displayed. Search for and select

    “LaserJet P3005” from the list on the left. Make sure that “HP LaserJet P3005 Postscript [en] (recommended)” is selected from the list of drivers on the right when this option is selected. Click the “Forward” button to continue with the printer configuration.

  9. The “Installable Options” dialog will appear. Make sure that you set

    the available options as follows to ensure that you are able to make use of the features of this printer:

    Change “Tray 3” from “Not Installed” to “Installed” Leave “Collation in Printer” as “No: Total RAM < 80MB and No Hard Disk” Leave “Printer Disk” as “No Installed” Make sure that the Duplex Unix option is selected. Leave “Fit to Page” as “Prompt User”

  10. Click the “Forward “button to continue with the configuration.

  11. The “Describe Printer” dialog will appear. Fill in the field provided

    as below:

    Change “Printer Name” to “anic-via-ps0” Change “Description” to “HP LaserJet p3005x” Change “Location” to “Grad Lab”

  12. Click the “Apply” button to complete the printer configuration.

    If prompted to print a test page, click the No button.

Your computer should now be configured to print to printing system.

Printing

To print from most GUI applications, click the applications Print option and select the printer you defined above (“anic-via-ps0”) from the list of available printers.

The printer should prompt you for a username and password to authenticate your print job. Enter your Windows Credentials. If authentication succeeds, your print job should automatically be forwarded for your local print service to the print service on the PS0 print server where it will be counted before being sent to the printer to be printed.

To print from the command-line using the lpr command as usual e.g.:

lpr -Panic-via-ps0 file.ps

The print job will be placed in the print queue on your workstation, and held until you authenticate it. To authenticate it, click System > Administration > Printing. The Printing window listing all of the available printers will be displayed. Right click on the the printer “anic-via-ps0” and select “View print queue” from the menu. A list of print jobs will appear. Right click on the print job and select Authenticate from the menu to authenticate and print the print job.

Windows

Please email the Systems Administrators at help@cs.uct.ac.za if assistance is required.

Note

You will need administrative privileges on the workstation to be able to install and configure the printer.

Instructions

Open a Command Prompt window, eg. Window Key + R > then type CMD in the Open dialog field.

In the Command Prompt window, type start \\ps0.cs.uct.ac.za\<printer name>, eg. start \\ps0.cs.uct.ac.za\anic

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Type in your Microsoft Windows credentials in the ensuing authentication dialog, eg. cs<username> and password

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The installation will proceed with the automatic installation of the printer driver and the presentation of the connected printer

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Printing

  1. Open any document, click on Print

  2. Select the printer from the drop-down list, eg. anic

  3. Print jobs will be submitted with the preset printer defaults, viz.

    duplex (double sided), economy (saves on toner)

MacOS

This section is still to be written.