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Printers

Every faculty and staff member has a printer in his/her office. These printers they are named the same as your login. For example the printer in Rex Dieter's office is called rdieter1. This is the name used under Windows and Linux.

Each of our labs (except the Hi-Tech classroom) have network printers installed. The naming scheme for this printers is slightly different than offices. For these printers the names are based on the lab name. For example the (Windows) names of the printers in the Gradlab are: gradlab and gradlab-color. For Linux (or cases where you need to print to a specific printer in the lab) the names are: gradlab-left, gradlab-right, gradlab-color.

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Windows

By default, all network printers should automatically be set up for you when you login.

To (re-)set your default printer:

  • Go to the Start menu and select Printers and Faxes
  • The window that comes up will list your printers. Your default printer is denoted with a check-mark.
  • To set the default printer, right-click on the printer you wish to make your default.
  • From the drop-down menu that appears, select Set as Default Printer

Please note whenever you login to a lab computer, your default printer is set to that printer in that lab.

Generating PDFs

Under Windows, we have installed PDFCreator. This is a "virtual printer", in that it "prints" to a file rather that to paper.

This printer allows you to generate a PDF from any Windows program. To use it, simply select it as the printer you want to use like any other printer. When you print, it will ask you for a file name to save the PDF file.


Duplex Printing aka 2-sided Printing

In the department we have a publicly available duplex printer. The name of the printers are gradlab-right and gradlab-left.

To use printer, first select the printer in the Print Dialog box. As shown in
Image:WindowsPrintDialog.png

To set the Duplex option, click on Preferences; select the Finishing tab and check the option for Print on Both Sides. As shown in
Image:WindowsPrintDialogFinishing.png

Linux

Under Linux, all printers are setup by default using cups.

To set a default printer under Linux, you use the lpoptions command. 

lpoptions -d queue_name

A note about duplex printers: For the printers that have a duplex option, there is a separate queue name for that printer. It is designated with -duplex appended to the name. For example to print to gradlab-left using the duplex option, you print to gradlab-left-duplex.

Also most applications support the option of printing to a PDF file.

Using non-department machines

Windows

  • Go to the Start menu and select Run
  • In the dialog box that pops up, type \\math-print
  • You will be prompted for a user name and password. You must enter your full user name, i.e., loginname@unl.edu
  • You will now get a window listing all the network printers in the department.
  • To set up a printer, double-click on the printer you want to use

Please note, your password will only be remembered for that session. That is, you will have to re-authenticate whenever you logon your personal machine.

Linux

Using system-config-printer, you should be able to use our department print server via SMB. Our print server is math-print.unl.edu

MacOS X

Go to System Preferences and select Print & Fax.

Click on the + to add a new printer. In the dialog box, Click on the IP Printer tab.

Select Internet Printing Protocal using IPP from the Protocol menu,

For Address, enter mathstat.unl.edu:631.

For the Queue enter printers/PRINTERNAME where PRINTERNAME is the printer you want to print to.

For the Name and Location, enter whatever you like.

After you have added the printer, you can click on Printer Setup to change the print driver from Generic to the specific one for that printer. You will probably have to download the drivers from HP

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