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Chapter 6: Printing

All Unix Cluster hosts are now running software that has some nice features:

1. The printing software auto-recognizes many different file types:

   text
   TeX dvi (no need for the -d flag)
   PostScript, PDF
   gif, jpg, ppm
   compressed (.gz or .Z)
   man pages (e.g., lpr /usr/man/man1/csh.1)
   

   (However, printing man pages with

   /usr/local/bin/man -t csh | lpr
   

   is probably better.)

2. You can enable various features with

   lpr -C<feature1>,<feature2>
   

   Possible features are:

   duplex -- two-sided printing
   twoup -- print two pages/side
   tumble -- bind on short edge (implies duplex)
   tray0 or upper -- tray selection
   tray1
   tray2 or lower
   manual -- manual feed
   high -- high resolution printing (e.g., for Color Epson printers)
   

   You can divide your consumption of paper by four with

   lpr -Ptheoryw -Ctumble,twoup -h FILE
   

3. You can submit a job with lpr on machine A and remove it with lprm on machine B.
4. You can print to printers on other systems with

   setenv PRINTER queue@remote-host
   

   or

   lpr -Pqueue@remote-host
   

   The system administrator on remote-host may have to grant you permission to do this. (However, there's no need to set up a queue on our machines.)

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