Printing

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Contents 1 General 2 Standard printers (HP LaserJet) setup 2.1 Configure printers on Linux 2.2 Configure printers on Windows 2.2.1 Installing printer 2.2.2 Configuring printer 3 Available printers

General

All users connected to the local network can use all common printers (see the table of printers below). All standard printers (all HP LaserJet) are connected to the clara server and printing is only possible though this server. The big multifunction printer/scanner/copier Minolta bizhub C220 is not connected to the clara server and printing must be configured to send jobs directly to the printer (see below).

Warning:

It is not possible to print directly to any of the standard printers (all HP LaserJet, not Minolta bizhub C220) although they are connected to the local network! Printer configuration on your computer must be always set to send all jobs to clara - jobs sent directly to printers will never be processed.

Standard printers (HP LaserJet) setup

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.

Configuring printer

As the printers are connected to the clara server, the client's PC does not get any information about the printer capabilities automatically and must be entered manually. Fortunately, the only parameter that needs to be set this way is the presence of duplex units the printer; on the other hand, if this parameter is not changed, user is not able to print double-sided documents. To change duplex unit setting, follow the instructions:

1. Open Control Pannel and select Printers and Faxes.
2. Right-click on the selected printer and select Properties. According to the printer type and the driver version the dialog that opens does not need to be exactly same as on the following picture - it should, however, be somehow similar.
   
   
   
   
3. Select Device Settings tab and find Duplex Unit item. Change the setting to Installed.
   
   
   
   
4. Select the General tab and click on Printing Preferences...
5. Select Finishing tab and try to set Print on Both Sides. If you leave it checked here, it will stay as your default. You can always change this setting when printing a document.
   
   
   
   

Available printers

This is the complete list of available printers.

Printer	Picture	Type	Duplex	Queue	Location
HP LaserJet 2300		laser b&w	yes	HPLJ2300	server room
HP LaserJet 4100		laser b&w	yes	HPLJ4100	server room
HP Color LaserJet 4650		laser color	yes	HPLJ4650	server room
HP Color LaserJet 4005		laser color	yes	HPLJ4005	entrance
Minolta bizhub C220		laser color	yes	none	entrance