CS Grad Student Printing

CS graduate students receive thesis printing quotas that allows printing to print queue lj_csgrad, the recommended print queue for CS graduate students. The lpquota command, as run on any core core hosts, allows one to see what permissions you have. If you wish to print to MFCF's printers in MC3016 you must have a XAS account, however, it is recommended that you use lj_csgrad.

Additional printers are available in DC, the ljp_dc2320 printers in dc2320, lp7_dc3116 (in dc3116) and lj_dc3624 (guess where it is). Individual research groups may have other printers intended for their own use.

Authorization may be required to use some printers. If you receive errors about authorization, your supervisor might need to request printer quota on the desired printers. Ask your supervisor to forward the request to their CSCF Point of Contact who will arrange for the necessary authorizations.

Printing from Windows systems will require settup a printer mapping using Samba. See WindowsPrinting or SambaPrinting for more details. This document is written for the ljp_cs printers but should be applicable to any core-attached printer.

Printing from Debian/Ubuntu/CUPS is described below.

Printing to CS Core printers using Samba

• See SambaPrinting
• Note: most grad students should use the "lj_csgrad" queue

Printing to the CS Grad Student printer in DC 3316 from a PC running Windows

Domain users (those who log into CS-GENERAL)

• See SambaPrinting
• Note: most grad students should use the "lj_csgrad" queue

Local (non-domain) user

• Start -> Run -> \\smb-printers.cs
• Enter your password in the form: cs-general\username

• Right-click on lj_csgrad and choose "Connect"
• It pops up a warning to the effect of "Will install printer driver..." (it won't - click Ok)
• It then reports "Cannot find printer driver" (click Ok)
• Pick printer and model: HP -> HP Laserjet 4100 (PS) will do. If you want, you can install the HP Laserjet 4250 PS driver from HP, first.
• Once it creates the new printer, you will see: "Access denied, unable to connect"
• However, it does seem to work!

Printing from a PC running Debian Linux (older GradPCs)

Notes

• this procedure requires root access
• the cupsd server on your machine must run as root user, i.e. the directive RunAsUser in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf must have value No and the cupsd process must be restarted if a change is made to cupsd.conf
• your machine will need to be added to the list of supported hosts
  • CSCF Staff: see AddingPrintQuota for notes on adding the machine to the queue
• Open a browser to the following URL: http://localhost:631/
• Click Add Printer
• Enter root username/password when prompted

   Name:           lj_csgrad
   Location:       DC 3316
   Description:    SCS Grad Printer in DC 3316 - Laserjet 4250 PS

• Device: LPD/LPR Host or Printer
  • click Continue
• Device URI: lpd://print.cs.uwaterloo.ca:515/lj_csgrad?reserve=yes+banner=yes
  • click Continue
• Make: HP
  • click Continue
• Model: HP Laserjet 4250 Foomatic/Postscript
  • click Continue