Printing to Clusters:
MacOS X 10.4 Tiger
Overview
Students with networked computers in their on-campus rooms can send print jobs to the laser printers in the computer clusters around campus. This makes it unnecessary to go to a cluster with a disk for the purpose of printing.
If you have any questions or problems, please email Student Computing.
Select a Printer
Before you send a print job, you must install the printer where your job will be sent:
- Open the Applications folder. Click on Utilities.
- Click on Printer Setup Utility.
- If you have no printers already installed, you will receive the following prompt. Click Add to continue.
If you do not get this prompt, click on the Add icon.
- In the window that appears, select the IP Printer icon. Select Line Printer Daemon -LPD, and enter either uniprintps3.its.yale.edu or uniprintps4.its.yale.edu, depending on which Uniprint server the printer of interest is located on. To determine which printers are on which server, please view this printer-friendly list. Enter the exact printer name into the box following Queue:. Enter a descriptive name for the printer, like ch_laser1. Leave Generic PostScript Printer selected.
In the window above, ch_laser1 on uniprintps3.its.yale.edu is being installed.
- Click Add to save your changes. You should then see the printer as one of your available printers.
From here, printing is the same as it is on any Macintosh OS X computer. Open the document you
would like to print, and then choose Print from the File menu. You
will see a box similar to the one below:
Make sure that the printer you selected is listed in the upper portion of
the box. Then click on the Print button, and your job will be sent to the
printer queue. You can then go to the cluster and release your job using the
print station next to the printer you selected. On the print station, the print
job will appear under the name of the local account name on your computer.