Printers


There are five printers for general department use -- one in room 736 SEO, two in room 308, one in room 438 and one in room 200. Please try to conserve paper and toner; do not print multiple copies of the same document, read your email before deciding whether or not to print it, preview documents using xdvi or ghostscript, use duplex-mode whenever possible, etc. Please do not use the printers for personal documents.

Paper is available from the Faculty Services office -- room 322. If the printer needs service other than adding paper, please send email to consult@math.uic.edu.

To print, first decide which printer you wish to use and whether you want your document to appear in simplex mode (single-sided) or duplex mode (double-sided, paper saving default mode.) The available printers are listed below.
Printer Name Number Printer Location Printer description Timings
seo1200 1
SEO 1200 HP LaserJet 8150 Series 8:00AM-6:00PM
seo736 1 SEO 736 Lexmark Optra T614 8:00AM-6:00PM
seo308 2 SEO 308 hp LaserJet 4250 & Lexmark Optra T612 available 24 hours
seo430 1 Mathematical Sciences Learning Center hp LaserJet 8000 8:00AM-6:00PM

To print a postscript file from a Unix computer double sided, use the following command:

lpr -P<printer> <filename>

If you wish to print a single sided copy, use the -Zsimplex option; to print a single-sided copy of the text document quiz1 on the printer in SEO 308 is:

-Pseo308 -Zsimplex quiz1

If your document is in dvi format, you must use dvips to convert it to PostScript format and print. The command:

dvips paper.dvi

prints the document paper.dvi in double-sided mode on the seventh floor printer (or whatever printer is set as the default for your computer).


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