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Network Printers

All users connected to the local network can use all common printers (see the table of printers below). All printers are connected to the clara server and printing is only possible though this server.

Warning:

It is not possible print directly to the printers athough they are connected to the local network! rinter configuration on your computer should always send all jobs to clara.

To configure printers on your computer follow the instructions:

Configure printers on Linux

It is usually not necessary to install or configure printers under Linux. You must have CUPS software package installed to be able to print, but it is automatically installed and configured when installing most of the modern Linux distributions.

To check / modify printing setup and to see if all network printers are visible on your system, use Printer Control Panel, System Configuration or whichever utility / configuration application you distribution offers. All printers should appear as network printers on clara server with queue names as listed in the table below.

Note:

From time to time, there may appear the same printers in the list of available printers, which look like they were connected to other computers in the local network - do not pay attention to these, as they are only re-exported printers connected to clara. The user who re-exported the printers should repair his/her configuration as soon as possible, so ask him/her to do so or inform the administrator.

Configure printers on Windows

Installing printer

For some reason, the best installation practice to install a network printer on Windows (at least since Windows XP) operating system is to use the following trick: do not install these printers as network printers, install them as local printers instead. To do so, follow these instructions (for Windows XP; modify as needed for Windows Vista or Windows 7):

1. Open Control Pannel and select Printers and Faxes.
2. Select Add a printer - an Add Printer Wizard appears.
3. When asked, select Local printer attached to this computer and deselect Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer. Click Next.
4. Select Create a new port and choose Local Port in the drop down list.
5. When Port Name form appears, enter the port name in the following form

   \\CLARA\HPxxxx

   replacing xxxx with the queue name according to the table below.
6. Select the proper driver in the table that follows or click on Have Disk ...' and browse to

   \\CLARA\COMMON\ADMIN\DRIVERS

   to find a driver.
7. Continue with the wizard and answer the questions that follow (say Do not share this printer when asked).
8. To confirm all settings, click Finish.

... to be continued ...

Available printers