printing

Go to the top-left of your screen and click on "Activities". Then type "printers" in the "Type to search" field.

Click on printers (next to settings). Click on "Add Printer...".

Type in hostname.math.ias.edu. For example, if you want to add the s0d...

If you want to conserve paper or don't want to carry around a lot of paper, it is possible to print multiple pages on a single sheet of paper.

There are two utilities for setting multiple pages on one piece of paper. They are called mpage and psnup...

The School of Mathematics uses CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System)

To check that status of the printer (Check if your job printed):

Go to a Web Browser and type:
http://printhost.math.ias.edu:631/printers/

where is the name of the printer you want...

The web browser may be configured to open a pdf file within the web browser. Adobe Acrobat may open within the browser window. If this happens, then the Adobe menu items will appears beneath the browser menu items. (See picture below):



To print...

Go to the Main Menu:
-Select Setup
-Type P for Printer
-Move your cursor to Personally selected print command
-Type A for Add Printer

-It will ask you to type printer name: s0 or s0d for ground floor printer, or you can choose another printer
-It...

Find out what printer is your default:

echo $PRINTER

If this does not output anything or is incorrect:

export PRINTER='printer-name'

where 'printer-name' is the printer you want to set:

a1, a1d, f2, f2d, f2suite, f2suited, f3, f3d, f4, f4d, s0...

Find out what printer is your default: echo $PRINTER If this does not output anything or is incorrect: echo > ~/.default_printer_user where is the printer you want to set:

f2, f2d, f3, f3d, f4, f4d, s0, s0d, s1, s1d, s2, s2d

To find the...

Try printing to a file first.
In Mozilla, choose File->Print
Next to 'Print To:', click on 'File'
Next to 'File:', type a filename to save it as. It will be saved as a postscript file
Click on 'Print'

Next, convert the file to a pdf:
ps2pdf...