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All campus WAM (Workstations at Maryland) machines use
Laser
Print Cost Recovery (LPCR) Project to print.Therefore, You
MUST have a print account to print on
Sun or any other WAM machine. Print accounts are available
to University of Maryland, College Park undergraduates,
graduate students, faculty, staff, and Golden ID holders. For
more information on obtaining a print account, go to the Laser
Print Cost Recovery Program's home page.
Using the qpr command
Until a X-Windows version of the LPCR program is avalible,
printing on Sun machines will be done via the
qpr program on WAM. The syntax of the
qpr command when using it at a command prompt
is:
sun15csc:~: qpr -q
queue-name filename
Where queue-name is the name of print queue in
whichever lab you are.
(PG2 for the Parking Garage II lab,
Hornbake for the Undergraduate Library, and there
are others.) filename is the name of a text or
postscript file that you wish to send to the printer.
After you issue the qpr command, you will be
prompted for your Print Account. This is the number (usually
your University ID) issued to you when you obtained your print
account. After you enter your print account, you will be
prompted for your password. Note:
When you type in your account or password, it will
NOT be displayed on the screen! If you
forget your password or need to change it, go to the Laser Print Cost
Recovery Program's home page.
So how do I Print?
You can print from the Suns by having your program direct
it's output to a PostScript file instead of a
printer, and then sending that postscript file to the print
with the qpr command. Many programs on the Suns will
automatically do this for you, however, when they run the qpr
command, the prompt for your print account will appear in the
Xterm window that you opened the program
in. Keep this in mind, because if you load the
program from the Dash menu, you didn't open an Xterm window
first (unless the application was tapped). This means that if
you run Firefox from the Button Bar or the Dash menu and hit
the Print command, you will never see the prompt asking you
for the print account! (In fact, it is redirected to your
.xsession-errors file.)
Printing
from Applications on the Dash Menu
Until there is a X-Windows version of the qpr program, you
can not directly print from applications that you run from
the Dash menu. The only way you can directly print from them
is to load them from the command line of an Xterm window.
Also, the program MUST be the
foreground application in that Xterm window when the prompt
for your Print Account appears for you to be able to enter
it!
Indirectly, if your application supports printing to a
postscript file, you can have it save the file on your WAM
account, and then send it using the qpr command
explained above.
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