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 again.

InfoNet Media Lab Area

IMLab HP Color LaserJet 4600n (outside lab)

IP: 142.58.183.240 Host: sr-isoroku

IMLab BW T630 (outside lab)

IP: 142.58.183.241 Host: sr-dumitrescu

IMLab Lexmark T630n B&W laser (inside lab)

IP: 142.58.183.244 Host: sr-zhukov

Storage Room

Lexmark T630

IP: 142.58.183.249 Host: sr-ike

EC3 Lab

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

IP: 142.58.183.245 Host: sr-rommel

HP 4600n (colour laser)

IP: 142.58.183.246 Host: sr-macarthur

Grad Student Lounge Area

EC3Lab HP Color LaserJet 4600n

IP: 142.58.183.247 Host: sr-monty

Lexmark T630n (B&W laser)

IP: 142.58.183.248 Host: sr-patton

Main Grad Area (near research administration offices)

Lexmark T640n (B&W laser)

IP: 142.58.183.243 Host: sr-yamamoto

HP Colour LaserJet 4650n

IP: 142.58.183.242 Host: sr-mountbatten

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

HP Colour Laserjet Printers

First, click an empty portion of your desktop, then click Go > Utilities. Double click the Printer Setup Utility, then hit Add. The image below should help you the rest of the way.

File:Mac install printer.png

Lexmark B&W Printers

To set up a Lexmark printer, follow the same instructions as for an HP printer, except use the configuration below after clicking Add.

File:Mac lexmark intall.png

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: