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Windows 7

• Make sure you are on one of the wired CS networks (ip address starting with 128.213)
• Download any necessary drivers ahead of time (especially for copiers)
• Click the Start menu button
• Select Control Panel
• Click on Devices and Printers
• Click on Add a printer
• Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer
• The printer that I want isn't listed
• Add a printer using a TCP/IP address or hostname and hit Next
• type in the printer address (such as lr.cs.rpi.edu and hit Next
• give the printer a helpful name and hit Next

HOWTO

Change my default printer

Macintosh

• Launch system preferences
• Click on Print & Fax
• Change Selected Printer in Print Dialog from "Last Printer Used" to ${printer_name}

UNIX

• PRINTER=name; export PRINTER ( bash / sh )
• setenv PRINTER name ( csh )
• Settings can be made permanent by adding variable definitions in your .bashrc, .cshrc init files.

Windows

• Click the Start menu button
• Select Control Panel
• Click on Devices and Printers
• right click on the printer and select Set as default printer

HOWTO: Update printing codes for lxp on Windows 7

• right click on the printer
• select printer properties
  • if a "change printer properties" button is present, click on it before proceeding
• select the configuration tab
• select the accounting button
• change the code (it should only be displaying asterisks on the line to be updated)

HOWTO: Remove a Windows 7 print driver

• If you need to completely remove a Windows 7 print driver:
  • From the start menu, select Devices and Printers
  • Click on a printer under the Printers and Faxes section
  • Click on Print server properties on the menubar up top.
  • Click on the Drivers tab
  • Click on the driver you want to delete and then click the Remove button
  • Click on the Remove driver and driver package radio button and hit OK
  • If it complains about something needing the driver, make sure all of the queues that referenced the driver have been removed and try again.

Miscellaneous Printing Problems

• If you are not able to delete a print job, pull the paper tray and contact labstaff
• PDF printing problems
  • Check for printer activity (blinking status light). Some documents may take a while to print if they are large, contain images or require a large volume of rendering.
  • If nothing comes out, try setting it to postscript level 2 or using pdf2ps in unix, and then print the postscript file to the printer
  • If the document prints with only some information missing, look for a box in the print dialog box which says "Print comments" and check it or a drop down menu which says "print document" and change it to "print document and markups"
  • Printing multiple copies of a job at once messes up the collation unless you select "Print as image" from the advanced menu from acrobat.
• Many printers do not have 64-bit specific drivers. You may need to manually install and run a 32-bit driver.
• If the Windows print spooler dies, try running net stop spooler and net start spooler in a command shell running with administrator permissions.