Printing in the Sunlab

• 1 Where can I print to?
• 2 How do I print from...
• 3 How do I print single-sided?
• 4 The print queue

Where can I print to?

Undergraduate CS-related coursework can be printed to bw1, the printer in the back of the Sunlab. For more information on departmental printing policies, click here.

How do I print from...

• XEmacs
  Use Print or Pretty Print on the File menu. The second one gives you fancy headers with the name of the file, page numbers, and the date and time printed.
• Dr. Racket
  User Print Definitions on the File menu (or Print Interactions if you want the interactions).
• Mozilla
  Just like at home, use Print on the File menu.
• the shell
  Use lpr with the name of a PostScript file or text file (e.g. lpr HappyMonkey.java or lpr silly.ps). You can man lpr for more help on this.
• the shell, but lots of files at once
  To print a bunch of files in one directory and make them pretty (to hand in, for example), you might want to try a2ps with a list of files after it, for example a2ps *.java or a2ps EADME *.[CH]. You can also man a2ps.

How do I print single-sided?

Add the -o sides=one-sided option to lpr.

The print queue

You can get a list of the jobs waiting in a print queue with the lpq command. You can use the -P option to see a print queue other than bw1. man lpq

Note that jobs sent to cis and cissingle both end up in the same queue.

If you submit a print job by accident, you can cancel it with the lprm command. Each time you run lprm, it removes one of your jobs from the queue. man lprm