Printer Information for the DNA Lab
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We have a number of printers in the DNA Lab. Our network printers have
been setup for both linux and windows.  The inkjet printers are local 
to the windows machines they are attatched to. 

All linux computers spool through centrosome via LPRng.  They are 
currently using the ifhp filter package. We have gone with LPRng for 
it ships with most modern linuxes by default, it is much more stable 
and flexible than the Berkely LPD spooling systems, and it interfaces 
nicely with ifhp. We have gone with the ifhp filter package because 
they are robust, extensible and LPRng works nicely with them. You can
find out more about LPRng and IFHP at the following website:

http://www.astart.com/LPRng/LPRng.html

The filter passes plain text files through a2ps to generate postscript
before sending it on to the printer.  This allows the filters to add
nifty postscript to duplex, multipage print, and specify print options.
The filter should handle almost all file types properly either internally
or by spawning a helper program.

Currently the machine AFM has been set up to share both of these printers.
Drivers have been loaded for WinNT and Win9x.  You should be able to just 
set up these types of machines to print directly with the drivers shared
out from AFM.  AFM cannot share out drivers for Win2k or WinXP.  When we 
determine the final state of the windows machines, we may want to change 
where the windows machines spool to.

To print to the color laser printer from linux use:
lpr filename			(default double sided 1up)
lpr -Pcolord filename		(double sided 1up)
lpr -Pcolor filename		(single sided 1up)
lpr -Pcolord2 filename		(double sided 2up)
lpr -Pcolor2 filename		(single sided 2up)
lpr -Pcolort filename		(for transperencies, tray 1)

you can access it from windows as \\AFM\color
windows drivers can be found in \\centrosome\research\windows\drivers\hp4550dn


To print to the black and white laser printer from linux use:
lpr -Psamsungd filename		(double sided normal quality)
lpr -Psamsunghid filename	(double sided high quality)
lpr -Psamsung filename		(single sided normal quality)
lpr -Psamsunghi filename	(single sided high quality)

you can access it from windows as \\AFM\samsung
windows drivers can be found in \\centrosome\research\windows\drivers\samsung

The DNA cluster website is at the following location:
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/research/bio/DNAcluster_info.html