Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Imperial College printing from linux laptop

Well, this does not work perfectly for me and some problems may come up (e.g. when printing multiple pdf pages in a single page) but generally it works well. Strangely enough, there are instrunctions for this on the DoC's CSG old site but I couldn't find them on the new one. The old site's link is http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/csg-old/ . click on the lab printers section and follow the instructions on the bottom of the screen. Basically, all you need to do is add the following lines at /etc/cups/printers.conf (replace username with your IC username): (https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/csg-old/labprinters/printers.conf)

Restart cups and that should do the trick. The site suggests to also install the PPD file, you can do that, but as I metioned, I still got issues from time to time.
(tested on debian testing)

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