Installing a Network Printer

Printing from PC's in the department is accomplished via SAMBA or wireless printing. SAMBA is also used to provide access to the trusted CS filesystems. If you have not setup the wireless printing, you will need to make sure your machine is setup to use SAMBA and then you will need to authenticate yourself to the SAMBA server; please see the help page for mapping a netowrk drive for more information.

By default, when printing to a network printer, a header (or banner) page is printed at the beginning of each print job. Each printer is also available via a name with a "-h" suffix; for example, 109 and 109-h. To print without a header page, use the name with -h.
When printing from UNIX, certain printer features such as duplex and tray, are selectable via the printer name. This is not possible when printing from Windows. To select these features from Windows, select the printer, then edit the Properties / Device Settings; make sure that appropriate features of the printer are enabled. Then select these features when printing each document. You can set defaults, and then feature selection will only be necessary when you don't want the defaults.

In order to install a network printer, you must do the following:

Map a network drive to the share server.
Click Start → Settings → Printers
Double click Add Printer icon
Select Network Printer Server and click Next
Type \\share\printer and click OK (replace printer with the name of the printer)
Click OK to install drivers on your local machine
Select the make and model of your printer, and click OK (for a list of printer types see the printer list.)
Select your default settings (Yes/No)
Click Next and then Finish

If you experience trouble with slow printing you may need to switch the drivers from PCL 6 to either PCL 5 or the PS driver. As a last ditch effort, installing the HP printing system for that printer usually works well.

A list of printers and copiers available in the department is available on the Facilities printer list. The drivers for the different printer models within the department can be downloaded from the manufacturers' web sites. The most current links are as follows: