The campus-wide PaperCut distributed printing system (called uPrint to the users) has the concept of a remote server. Such PaperCut servers support printing from domains (kerberos realms) which are apart from the domain which manages the main PaperCut environment. Print jobs are forwarded from the remote server to the main PaperCuts servers for final printing. At the University of Waterloo all of the PaperCut printing servers are members of the IST sponsored NEXUS domain. Where as all undergraduate users and computers in the School of Computer Science (SCS) are members of the school's CS-TEACHING domain - within SCS's CSCF Directory Services forest.

To support PaperCut printing within CS-TEACHING, we created a new virtual Windows Server 2012 system for the role of PaperCut remote server. This server - named lydia.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca - was made a member of the CS-TEACHING domain. On lydia the PaperCut support software (it's actually a service) was installed and made a member of the PaperCut cluster by support staff in IST.

We then created shared print queues on lydia for CS printing. These queues were new local server queues printing to TCP/IP network ports. The port names were defined as the FQDN names of the networked PaperCut printers. Our client systems in CS-TEACHING would then print to the shared queues on lydia (for example to \\lydia.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca\<print_queue_share_name>) as opposed to the established PaperCut server(s) in the NEXUS domain. There were six shared queues created for printing to five networked PaperCut printers. Their lydia share names are as follows.

• rs-public-mc1052 printing to rs-public-mc1052.prt.uwaterloo.ca
• rs-public-mc2061 printing to rs-public-mc2061.prt.uwaterloo.ca
• rs-public-mc3006 printing to rs-public-mc3006.prt.uwaterloo.ca
• rs-public-mc3008 printing to rs-public-mc3008.prt.uwaterloo.ca
• rs-public-mc3009-bw printing to rs-public-mc3009.prt.uwaterloo.ca
• rs-public-mc3009-colour printing to rs-public-mc3009.prt.uwaterloo.ca

When each queue is created, a set of CREATOR-OWNER permissions are assigned to it by default. IST recommends the removal of these particular permissions on the PaperCut remote server. All of these printers are Xerox WorkCentre models and all used the same smart driver which IST provided and is also obtainable from the Xerox web site.

The printer in MC 3009 (rs-public-mc3009.prt.uwaterloo.ca) is a colour printer with two shared queues created for it. This allows a user to print to it in monochrome (using the rs-public-mc3009-bw queue) and only be billed for monochrome printing. When a user desires colour printing then they may select the rs-public-mc3009-colour queue and be billed accordingly. To ensure that a designated monochrome print queue on a colour printers prints only in monochrome an administrator must utilize the following PaperCut Admin Console portal.

https://printuw.private.uwaterloo.ca:9192/admin

Under the Printers tab, select the print queue which should be set to monochrome. Remember, in the PaperCut Admin Console all CS print queues will appear twice, once for the CS-TEACHING PaperCut server (lydia) and once for the NEXUS PaperCut server (mediaprint2) . You will need to select the lydia print queue. Select the Convert to Grayscale option for All Users under the Filters and Restrictions tab for the print queue in question.

-- ClaytonTucker - 2014-10-14