Printing
Introduction
Printing documents to a departmental printer from a Macintosh, whether lab-owned or personal, is easy to do.
There are several caveats to printing from a Macintosh:
- The "account name" of your user account on the Macintosh must match your CSE username.
- If you are connected to the department's wireless network, you must be connected to the "CSE-Local" wireless network. Departmental printers are not accessible from the "University of Washington" wireless network.
Does Your Account Name Match?
The "account name" of your user account on the Macintosh must match your CSE username.
If you don't know the account name, open the Terminal application and, at the command prompt, type "pwd" and press the Return key. This command should return something that looks like /Users/cjsmith. If your CSE username is "cjsmith", then you can proceed to set up a printer.
If your CSE username does not match the account name returned from the "pwd" command, you will need to change the account name on your Macintosh before you can print to departmental printers. Apple has a Support document - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1428 - that explains how to accomplish this.
Adding a Printer
Open the "Print & Scan" preference pane from the "System Preferences" application, and follow these instructions:
- Select the "plus sign" at the bottom of the left-hand pane. The "Add" dialog box appears.
- Select "IP" from the options at the top of this dialog box.
- Type
ipp.cs.washington.eduinto the "Address:" box. - Type
printers/PRINTERNAME(wherePRINTERNAMEis the name of the printer; "ps381" is an example) into the "Queue:" box. - Type
PRINTERNAMEinto the "Name" box. - Type the location of the printer -
CSE 381- into the "Location:" box. - The "Use:" selection box is for the specification of the driver software for the printer you're setting up; choose "Select Printer Software..." and then either "HP Laserjet 4200 Series" or "Xerox Phaser 6200DP" for our black and white or color printers, respectively.
- Select the "Add" button.
- You'll be asked to set up options for the printer; our black and white printers have duplex units installed, so check that box.
Adding the Poster Printer
If you wish to use the printer printer - "psclarge", located in room 421, you should follow the instructions above, selecting "HP DesignJet 5500PS" when you are asked about the printer driver.
You will need to pay careful attention to the paper size and scaling of your document, and different applications do this in different ways.
Adobe Reader / Adobe Acrobat
- In "Copies & Pages" select "Fit to Printable Area."
- In "Finishing" set "Scale to" to "36 × 60."
- Ignore that the preview still says "8.5 × 11."
Preview
- In "Preview" set "Scale to Fit" to "Print Entire Image" and set "Paper Size" to "36 × 60 inches."
- In "Finishing" set "Scale to" to "36 × 60."
PowerPoint
- In "Copies & Pages" uncheck "Scale to Fit Paper."
- In "Paper Handling" check "Scale to fit paper size" and select "[36'' × 60'']"
- In "Finishing" set "Scale to" to "[36'' × 60'']"
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