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Your account includes a per semester printing allotment or "quota," artificially expressed in dollars. These printing "dollars" are utilized to print output from applications programs, copies of man pages, files, etc. Quotas are reset on or near the first day of each semester (Summer I & II count as one regular semester).

Printouts can be sent to several printers. The default print queue on ACS is named publp. It is not necessary to define this print queue—it is set automatically. However, there may be times when you will want to direct your output to a different printer; see Changing Printers on UNIX or Printing to an ACS Printer from a PC or Mac.

Other systems may not define a default print queue. In this case, you should set your printer environment as shown below.

Printer Locations

Name	Location
publp	I/O Svs Window, 111 Cummington St., basement
pubps	I/O Svs Window, 111 Cummington St., basement

Retrieving Output
Output from all printers, with the exception of cglps, is sorted and distributed at the I/O Services Window in the basement of 111 Cummington Street. Output is stored under your account name. Output from cglps is distributed in the Computer Graphics lab on the second floor of 111 Cummington.

Rates

Name	Rate	Description
publp	$.05 per side	double-sided, stapled, 600 dpi
pubps	$.10 per page	single-sided, stapled, 600 dpi
publpns	$.05 per side	double-sided, non-stapled, 600 dpi
pubpsns	$.10 per page	single-sided, non-stapled, 600 dpi
There is a 2 copy per document limit on all IT printers.

Checking your Print Quota
A print quota program (called pquota) has been created which will query your remaining print allotment. The pquota program displays your dollar balance as well as the number of pages that can be printed with that balance. To query your printing resources, type "pquota" (omit the quotes) at the shell prompt.

The pquota program will report in the following format:

User: fred

Semester Print Quota: $50.00 Used: $2.50 Balance: $47.50

With this balance, you can print:
950 pages (sides) on (publp) or
475 pages on pubps or
237 pages on cglps or
118 pages on pub600

Every page that you print will use up your allotment in proportion to the "cost" of printing. That is, printing a file on the least expensive (per page) printer will affect your account the least. The rates per page will change as costs change. The Office of Information Technology reserves the right to modify the price per page without prior notice.

Note: if you have accounts on more than one system, your quota is shared, e.g., if your quota is $50.00 for one account, it is still $50.00, even if you have accounts on both ACS and CGL.

See also Central Consulting's Print Quota page.

Increasing your Print Quota
If by chance you do exceed your print quota, you can request that your print "dollars" be increased. To do so, go to the I/O Services window or the Information Technology main office. An emergency increase will be granted automatically. Subsequent increases will require faculty approval, however, in no case will a legitimate academic need for print resources be denied.

See also Central Consulting's Print Quota page.

Printing a File on UNIX
The 'lpr' command sends a specified file to be printed on the default printer. Type:

% lpr filename

Printing a Man Page on UNIX
You can pipe the display of a man page to the lpr program:

% man topic | lpr

Printing Text with Special Options on UNIX
The "enscript" program reads in a plain text file, converts it to PostScript, and sends it to a PostScript printer.

% enscript -ffontfontsize -FHfont -bHeader file

Font, fontsize, Hfont, and Headers are enscript options. See the enscript man page for details on their use.

Changing Printers on UNIX
As mentioned above, output is directed to the publp queue unless you specify a substitute. If you choose to print on an alternative printer, you must specify that printer. For example, the following command directs the output to printer pubps:

% lpr -Ppubps filename

You can change the printer for the duration of your current session by setting the print environment. For example, the following command temporarily directs all output to printer pubps:

% setenv PRINTER pubps

You can make this change permanent, if you wish, by adding the same command to your .cshrc file.

References
For more information on printing, see the man pages. For example, to see all man pages which mention the lpr command, enter:

man -k lpr

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