Printers

Printers

If you have a Mac or Linux machine with an automatic DNS discovery tool, such as Bonjour, Avahi, or howl, you can browse our network for these printers to add them. If the name is in italics, it is available through DNS discovery with exactly the same name.

This page is being updated as the printer settings have changed. Please note that only the printers with an IP address of 142.58.183.*** are available. The Windows XP printer installation guide is now up to date.

InfoNet Media Lab

142.58.183.200 IMLab HP Color LaserJet 4600n

142.58.183.201 IMLab BW T630

209.87.56.209 IMLabT630 rm455 (Lexmark T630n B&W laser)

Server Room

209.87.56.203 Lexmark T630

EC3 Lab

142.58.183.205 EC3Lab B/W T630 (Lexmark T630n B/W laser)

142.58.183.206 HP 4600n (colour laser)

InterActivity Lab

142.58.183.207 EC3Lab HP Color LaserJet 4600n

142.58.183.208 Lexmark T630n (B&W laser)

SVE Lab

142.58.183.231 Lexmark T640n (B&W laser)

142.58.183.230 IMLab HP Color LaserJet 4650n

Windows Printer Installation

The following screenshots will guide you through a typical Lexmark T630 installation on a WindowsXP workstation.
First, invoke the Add Printer Wizard, choose to use a network printer, and specify the TCP/IP address of the desired printer (above).

File:Connecting printers 1.png

You can get the Lexmark T630 or HP4600 drivers from the wiki. Unzip them to your C:\ drive, then tell the Add Printer Wizard that you Have Disk:

Browse to find the files; representative paths are shown (these paths result automatically from the unzipping)

File:Connecting printers 4.PNG

You will probably have to accept an unsigned driver.
It is preferable to choose the PCL (Page Control Language) driver option:

The HP4600 path is very similar to the Lexmark T630, if that's what you are installing:

Nothing we can do about this; accept the unsigned (Lexmark) driver, and wrap up your installation. You can print a test-page if you wish, to verify that it works.

Mac OS-X Printer Installation

OS X 10.4

SuSE Linux Printer Installation (using CUPS)

YAST -> Printers ??? One tool for this is actually gnome-cups-manager (Gentoo: emerge -v gnome-cups-manager), which is found under ???

On any system running CUPS (Common Unix Printing System - all modern Unices), you can point a browswer at port 631 on the local machine: