Printing

• Conditions and timetables
• Printers
• Printing examples
• Printing allowance
• Rules for printing
• CPET printing service

Conditions and timetables

You can use the printers at the Operations Service in the A5 and C6 Buildings in order to print out your practicals lists (source code and coursework reports). Practical assignment statements, manuals or slides must be sent to the CPET printing service.

The staff print out all queued lists once an hour on the hour. The first print-outs come out at 9 a.m., and the last at 8:30 p.m.

Given the fact that the volume of print-outs is sometimes very large, jobs sent just before the hour don't necessarily get printed within the current hour. It is very likely that these jobs will remain pending until the next batch of print-outs.

The various UNIX and PC servers have particular printers assigned. Also, there is a default printer assigned for each system. This means that if no printer is specified, the system redirects the list to the default printer.

The following table shows the various queues available for each system:

UNIX printers

ia5_ls (laser printer A5, default printer)

ic6_ls (laser printer C6)

SUN SOLARIS printers (Moonrey)

laser_a5 (laser printer A5, default printer)

laser_c6 (laser printer C6)

PC printers

Laser A5 (laser Kyocera A5, default printer)

Printer A5 (inkjet printer A5)

Printer C6 (C6 computer rooms, inkjet)

Laser C6 (C6 computer rooms, Kyocera laser)

Printer CPET (CPET Printing Service printer)

Printer CPET_COLOR (CPET Printing Service colour laser printer)

The LCFIB has two Kyocera Ecosys (FS-3700+/FS-3800) laser printers, one for the A5 Building and another for C6. The main characteristic of these printers is that they are ecological, and have very low consumption.

Summary of characteristics:

• 18ppm/24ppm speed (pages per minute)
• Ecological printer (Ecoprint printing mode)
• The least expensive fungibles on the market.
• Will use recycled paper.
• 600x600 resolution, reaching 600x2400 with the KIR system
• Double-sided printing
• Three 500-sheet paper trays

Independently from the building you are connecting from:

• UNIX:
• lpr .login prints the list on the default printer ia5_ls
• lpr -Pic6_ls .login prints the list on printer ic6_ls
• MOONREY:
• lpr .login prints the list on the default printer laser_a5
• lpr -Plaser_c6 prints the list on printer laser_c6
• PC:
• Go File>Print, and choose the appropriate printer

For more information regarding any other printing commands (viewing queues, cancelling printing jobs, etc.), please consult your environment user guide.

The printing allowance system aims to ensure that users make good use of the printers For this reason, a limit has been put on the number of pages that students are allowed to print per month at the FIB. Point 7 of the rules for use of the computers clearly states what can and cannot be printed.

In order to view your current printing allowance, click on the option "printing allowance" in the Student's Corner. This allowance is common to all operating systems. Below is a list of the allowances for each month:

The allowance you can view from the Student's Corner is the sum of everything you have printed, while the maximum allowance per month is indicated in the above table. The leading page before each print job counts as a printed sheet.

Bear in mind that the printers do not accept jobs over 30 pages in length or 4MB in size. If you need to print something that exceeds these limits, you will have to split it up.

We would like to remind you once again that you may only print lists that are strictly necessary for carrying out your practicals. Please consult the Computing Laboratory rules in order to find out what you are allowed to print.

CPET offers you the possibility of using their printers, giving you the best print-out quality for your coursework and practicals.

How do I do this? All you have to do is select the appropriate printer (CPET Printer or CPET Color Printer on the PC network) when printing. You will then have to go and collect the print-out at the CPET (production section).

• The price for printing on CPET is 10 pesetas/sheet for the first job and 5 pesetas/sheet for subsequent jobs.
• Please contact CPET to find out the price for colour print-outs on the CPET Colour Printer.
• Jobs are kept in the queue for a minimum of 4 hours, and a maximum of 48, after which CPET reserves the right to delete them.
• You can collect the print-outs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday in the production section in the basement of Building B4.

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