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Printing to a Uniprint Printer from a Personal Computer

Uniprint is the system of connected printers all over campus. Uniprint printers are available in every college, public clusters (Bass, CT Hall, Dunham) and select other locations.

In addition to printing from cluster computers, you can also send documents to Uniprint printers directly from your personal computer.

When possible, we suggest students use the 'Student Printing' software linked below. This software creates one virtual printer. When you print to that virtual printer, you can release the docuemnt at almost any Uniprint printer on campus. You won't be charged until the document is released.

Windows PCs

To print from a computer running Windows, visit YPPS' UniPrint page and install the software for 'Student Printing & Central Print Queues' on your computer. You may also download this software directly.

Mac OS X (10.5 - 10.7)

To print from a computer running Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, or Lion, visit YPPS' UniPrint page and install the software for 'Student Printing & Central Print Queues' on your computer. You may also download this software directly.

Linux

Though the print anywhere software is not available for Linux, you can still print to specific Uniprint printers.

Instructions

Given the variety of distributions of Linux, the instructions provided are necessarily non-specific. For assistance, please contact a Student Tech.

1. Navigate to your computer's Add Printer wizard.
2. From the wizard, choose the option to add an LPD printer (this may be under a section like 'Network').
3. When asked for the device URI, enter:
   • lpd://[your_netid]@[server].ris.yale.edu/[queue]
   • For [server] and [queue] use the values from the list of Uniprint printers
   • Note:Some distributions may automatically remove the netid@ portion of the URI. This is usually not an issue.
4. If prompted, enable Duplexer to enable two-sided printing.
5. If prompted for a driver, it is just a Generic PostScript Printer.