CAE Lab File Server
Printing to CAE Lab Printers
X Servers for Windows, Mac, etc.
Printing to CAE Lab Printers
All computers in the CAE Laboratory have access to both the HP LaserJet 4000PS and the Color LaserJet 4600DN printers. Use the following instructions for examples of how to print to these printers.
Printing with mpage
mpage is a printing utility that prints standard text and Postscript
files with several options including headers, date/time stamping, and printing multiple pages of text onto a single sheet to conserve paper.
Normal usage of mpage would be a command similar to the
following:
mpage -2 -P- -H -f filename1 filename2 filename3 | printcommand
Which would print the files filename1, filename2, and filename3 with
headers at the top of the page, folding long lines at the margin, and 2 pages of content on each sheet. More detailed instructions for specific printing cases from the Sun and GNU/Linux workstations is given below.
Type mpage -? to see other options.
Printing from Sun Workstations
To send a print job to the laser printer:
mpage -2 -P- -H -f filename1 | lp
To send a print job to the color printer:
mpage -2 -P- -H -f filename1 | lp -d color
Printing from GNU/Linux Workstations
To send a print job to the laser printer:
mpage -2 -P- -H -f filename1 | lpr
To send a print job to the color printer:
mpage -2 -P- -H -f filename1 | lpr -Pcolor
