DCS Office Documentation Project. 

 One in a series of articles to assist DCS office staff. This series will 
be posted at

 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~lloyd/howtoDCS/



1. AMS/ROSI  printing

When you use ROSI or AMS (SAP) you are using a computer outside the 
department. The computers are maintained by Computing and Networking
Services (CNS), and they have no idea where it is or what you call 
it. If users phone them and CNS asks "What is it's name?" they want
something like "csa", not "Hewlett Packard". (Don't phone CNS, phone
me, please.) 

ROSI uses different names from CNS's names for a printer (of course
it does, why make things simple?).

The table below should help you find out what name you want to use
in AMS or ROSI. 

CNS Our Print Server       Queue       AMS ROSI
--- ---------------------- ----------- --- -------------

cs1 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw3301d     cs1
cs2 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw-ba5246   cs2
cs3 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw3302      cs3 CPSCFP04 R532
cs4 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw3303b     cs4              ===> NOTE: this is in BA 4237 currently (April 2005)
cs5 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw283       cs5
cs6 granite.cs.utoronto.ca clw3303     cs6
cs7 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw-theory   cs7
cs8 granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw3302f     cs8
cs9 lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     lw3304          GRADFP19 R232****
csa lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     lw-ba4242-s     CPSCFP01 R302
csb lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     lw-3304         CPSCFP02 R303
csc granite.cs.utoronto.ca clw290a     csc
csd granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw-ba5244   csd
cse lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     lw-ba4236       CPSCFP05 R546
csf granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw-ba4254       CPSCFP06 R549
csg lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     theory          CPSCFP03 R510
csh granite.cs.utoronto.ca lw3210      csh
csi lpd.cs.utoronto.ca     lw-vc       csi  ===> not working yet


2. Printing from Windows clients

 2.1 Printing through granite

   => Once upon a time GRANITE performed print server functions for staff machines
   => Once upon a time users added printers from GRANITE's list of known printers and 
                       printing worked. 
   => Sadly this fairy tale ended in early 2004. :(
   => Do not add printers from GRANITE's list, even if it works for you. 



 2.2 Printing through lpr

 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~lloyd/howtoDCS/office/lpr/

 The printer can only be added from an administrator account, and subtle
 errors result if the printer driver is not correct, especially with colour
 printers. Contact me and I will add the printer(s) you use most to the 
 selection list available on your Windows computer. 


 2.3 Printing through smb.cs

   => tried this, and it doesn't work completely.

 2.4 Printing through lpd,cs 

   => When we are all living Happily Ever After users will add printers from 
      \\LPD\ the way they once did with \\GRANITE\  Today (April 2005) we are
      not there yet, but we cling to the dream. 


3. Printing to file

 3.1 Long before \\GRANITE\ worked, long after \\LPD\ works, and at all points
     in between, people can select "Print to file" and select a Postscript(tm) 
     printer and create a Postscript file (.ps). 

 3.2 Postscript has been the accepted standard for exchanging *print ready*
     documents since the early 1980's. It has recently been changing to 
     Portable Document Format(tm) (.pdf) files. Note, "print ready" means the 
     document is NOT to be altered by the receiver -- you don't want the 
     print shop #$^%#ing up your publication. 

 3.3 Transfer your Postscript file to CSLab (distant past: ftp, less distant:
     email, current: save to H:) 

 3.4 Print the file:

        lpr -P lw-QUEUENAME  filename.ps 

     Replace lw-QUEUENAME with the name of the print queue you want to use
     (see above for some examples, or run the command 'printers' to see lots
     of choices.) Replace filename.ps with the file you created or received.