Printers
There are many printers connected to the Unix systems here at UCI. Most
of them are high-quality laser printers available for use by faculty,
staff, and graduate students. In addition, there is a line printer in
the NACS machine room which can be used by all users.
Printer Queues
The Unix programs which manipulate the printer queues are "lpr", "lpq", and
"lprm". They queue jobs, examine the queues, and remove jobs from the
queues, respectively. The queues are maintained in arrival order. If
there is a problem with your job, either you will be sent
mail containing the error message(s)
which were produced or, more commonly, the messages will appear on the
header page produced by the job.
By default, files spooled with the "lpr" command are sent to the queue
named "lp", which is an alias for the normal lineprinter queue.
You may select which queue your job is sent to by using the "-P" flag
on each of the spooling commands described in this document. This flag
is immediately followed by the name of the printer/queue. For example,
to send to the "diablo" forms queue, you would add "-Pdiablo" to your
normal "lpr" command.
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