Forget names like lj22 and clj24a, environment variables like PRINTER or MOZILLA_POSTSCRIPT_PRINTER_LIST, or job queueing machines named GRAND-NT or QUEEN-NT. As of 2006-04-13, SCD has replaced all that with CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System. It's used by default by Red Hat Fedora Core 4 and Mac OS X. A cupsd daemon runs on each host to manage jobs emanating from the host. The print queues are on cups-server.scd.ucar.edu. The daemon listens on port 631, and you can web to http://localhost:631 to interact with the daemon to show a list of printers, see if jobs have printed, etc.
To print from the command line under Mac OS X (and perhaps Linux?), use a command like
lpr -P ML-26D_B-W@cups-server.scd.ucar.edu
lpstat -a
Mozilla will just work - it asks CUPS for the list of printers and offers it to you in Print dialog boxes.
To tell acroread how to print, see my acroread page.
To tell Star Office how to print, see my staroffice page.
To tell Abiword to print, see my abiword page.
To set up printers and print queues, do
Start->System Settings->Printing.
Click on New. Click Forward.
Name the printer like "lj22" and click
Forward... Set the queue type to "Networked
UNIX (LPD)". Set the server to lp.scd.ucar.edu. Set the queue
to the printer's name: "lj22". Click Forward.
Then setup the printer type - I used "Postscript printer". Try
printing a test page. Worked for me.
To control printers in Red Hat Fedora Core 1, click on the panel
button. It'll run tryprint.pl, which will
display window a "GNOME PRINT MANAGER" window that shows your
printers.
To print from the laptop to printers on the NCAR LAN, you need
to put descriptions of the NCAR printers into the
To tell Unix what printer to use, set the PRINTER environment
variable in the ~/.bashrc file. Don't forget
to set the pp and ppd environment variables while you're at it.
/etc/printcap file. I got my
definitions from Greg Woods. Instead of this, you could use the
lprsetup program to edit the file.
Read the man page for printcap for more info. After defining
entries, create a spool directory for each printer:
IMPORTANT: when printing with the linux lpr
command, there must be no space between the -P option and the
value of the option. If there's a space, it'll "work" by
printing to the default printer! Also, you have to use the "-c"
option. As of 2002-10-12, our best guess as to why this is
needed is that, despite the man page for "lpr", the -c option is
unrecognized by lpr and is passed through to fileserver, where
it is recognized by fileserver's "lp" daemon as meaning "copy
the file", which is somehow necessary. Sigh.
cd /var/spool/lpd
mkdir lj39c lj22 clj24a phaser clj24arear