CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is now being used as the print spooling software for the AMANDA UNIX computers. This has resulted in some changes to the printing system (hopefully for the better).
If you use a Windows machine, please make sure that in your configuration of the printers that for B&W printing on celery, the 2nd tray is selected for paper printing, and that plain paper is selected for the color printer (ngc4550).
CUPS supports both System V and Berkeley printing commands. So all your old commands will work fine. The default printer for all machines is the double sided printing queue on the B&W LaserJet near the library. To print to it, just use lpr with no arguments
% lpr mozilla.ps
DO NOT SEND pdf files to the printer this way!!
Printing from an application such as ghostview, netscape, or acroread, just use the pull down menu and use the default settings.
To remove a job, use lprm. Use lpq to get the job-id.
% lpq -Pngc4550
% lprm job-id
To print to a non-default print queue, such as the single sided color queue, use the -P flag.
% lpr -Pngc4550single color.ps
When printing from an application, add the -Pngc4550 in the window that pops up when printing is selected to print to a different queue. Some applications such as gimp will even give you a list of printers.
To see a list of print queues on a machines, use lpstat.
% lpstat -a
Not all of these queues are AMANDA printers. CUPS looks for other printers on the same sub-net and automagically configures them.
Presently the following AMANDA print queues are enabled
If this new system works reliably, then the following 2 queues will be added.
To change your default print, set the environment variable PRINTER. This is usually done in your shell configuration file, such as .cshrc
setenv PRINTER ljstudent
An online user manual for printing can be found at
http://ocher:631/documentation.html
