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Overview

All printers of the institute are connected to a central print server, which logs and counts all print jobs. Before a print is sent to a printer, the system gets the page number and job settings, calculates the costs and checks permissions and credits for the sender. After a successful printing, the credits will be subtracted.

Credits and free printing black and white color members of the institute* free free** students*** costs costs

* Members of the institute are: Professors, Staff, Assistants (!PostDocs and !PhDs), Guests.

** Assistants need to refill the credit (for free) after printing 100 colored pages per semester.

*** Students with 'Hauptfach Mathematik' or "Hauptfach Bio Statistic" get free credits worth 20 SFr. per semester. An I-MATH account is required to print.

A printjob is counted based on page number, page format (A4 or A3), simplex or duplex and black/white or color. 

Special settings like A3, color or stapling are only available on some special printers like jcolor, k.

Prices for all printers with different settings!

Printing 'I-MATH' vs. 'UZH Printplus (UPP)'

At the institute there are two printing solutions available: 'I-MATH'-based and 'UZH Printplus (UPP)'-based.

  I-MATH UPP Printer All printers & copiers Copiers 'kcolor' and 'jcolor'. Thinlinc Print Dialog: UZHPrintPlus UZH wide - yes Cost Low. I-MATH pays the infrastructure High. UZH Scan Only a few dedicated rooms (not public) 'kcolor', 'jcolor' - use your UZH badge, free Paying see below UZH Printplus

Check your current print credit

  • log in to http://www.math.uzh.ch/my
  • Switch to the printing tab
  • You will see the current amount of credit you have left and your own print history.

Charging Credit

You can view your credit, your settings and your last 50 print jobs in your account admin panel: My Math.

Users can charge credits at the office !Y27K30. The credit can be used immediately.

Assistants can also write an email to the system support, but in this case probably have to wait some time until the credit is loaded up. 

Printer Names

  • Printers are named after the room they are in.
  • For the big printers on corridors of J and K floors several virtual printers with various configurations are provided .

Public printers

Printer Location Color Remarks h52 Y27 H52 No   j11 Y27 J11 No   k49 Y27 K49 No   k49color Yes   j J floor No Stapling, booklet print, A3 format jcolor Yes Stapling, booklet print, A3 format jcolor_booklet Yes Only booklet print j-ps Yes Advanced options (!PostScript printer), A3 format k K floor No Stapling, booklet print, A3 format kcolor Yes Stapling, booklet print, A3 format kcolor_booklet Yes Only booklet print k-ps Yes Advanced options (!PostScript printer), A3 format

Printing from your notebook

Please review the specific page:

You can also use our thinlinc client to connect to our enviroment where everything is set up already.

For additional information about how to connect to our servers from your computer or how to transfer data from your device to our thinlinc servers go to https://wiki.math.uzh.ch/public/thinlinc

Printing on Group-Accounts

People, who are assigned to a group (made by the IT), can print on this group account. All members of the group have a link on the myMath Homepage, where they can see the Print-History of the group.

For printing on a group account, a job-billing information has to be sent with the print job. In many print dialogs (for example: Firefox) you have in the tab 'Job' in the section 'Job Details' a field 'Billing info'. There you must enter the group name (all lowercase) to print on the group account. In other print dialogs (especially the gtklp dialog) you have in the tab 'Special' the field 'Extra Options'. There you must type: job-billing= where '' is again the lowercase group name you wish to print on. On a console (with lp command) you can use the option -o job-billing= for printing on a group account.

If you have problems with printing on a group account, please come to J11 or J40.

Create own printer instances

Create own printer instances with personal settings. Such instances are only available via command line.


[user@host
# Create an instance 'jcolor/bw', which prints to 'jcolor', but always in b/w:
$ lpoptions -p jcolor/bw -o ColorModel=Gray

# To use the new instance:
$ lp -d jcolor/bw output.pdf

# Show all printer, incl. instances:
$ lpstat -t

# The local instances are saved under
~/.cups/lpoptions

Printing with Command Line

Description Syntax / Example List all printers lpstat -a Show default printer lpstat -d Set default printer lpoptions -d
Ex: lpoptions -d k Print lp [-d ]
Ex: lp -d h52 paper.pdf Print several copies (see notes) lp -n  [-d ]
Ex: lp -n 5 paper.pdf Print several copies (see notes) in the order 1,2,3... lp -o Collate=True -n  
Ex: lp -o Collate=true -n 5 paper.pdf Print several copies with staples (see notes) lp -d  -o RepeatJob= -o StaplePos=1PLU
Ex: lp -d j -o RepeatJob=10 -o StaplePos=1PLU exam.pdf Print 2 pages on one site lp -o number-up=2
Ex: lp -p number-up=2 paper.pdf Printing one sided on a duplex printer lp -o duplex=None
Ex: lp -o duplex=None paper.pdf Printing duplex with turning on short edge lp -o duplex=DuplexTumble
Ex: lp -o duplex=DuplexTumble paper.pdf Printing transparencies lp -o media=Transparency
Ex: lp -o media=Transparency Printing with stapling (see note 1) - only j, jcolor, k, kcolor lp -d jcolor -o StapleType=StapleON -o StaplePos=(1PLU|1PRU|1PLB|1PRB|2PL|2PR|2PU|2PB)
Ex: lp -d jcolor -o Duplex=None -o StapleType=StapleON -o StaplePos=1PLU -o sides=one-sided Printing booklet via jcolor_booklet and kcolor_booklet (see note 3) lp -d  -o print-color-mode=Color|Grayscale
Ex: lp -d jcolor_booklet -o print-color-mode=Color -o PageSize=A5 paper.pdf Printing booklet via j-ps and k-ps (see note 3) lp -d  -o BindMode=SaddleStitch -o Duplex=None -o Booklet=Left -o print-color-mode=Color
Ex: lp -d jcolor -o PageSize=A5 -o BindMode=SaddleStitch -o Duplex=None -o Booklet=Left -o Finishing=Col -o print-color-mode=Color paper.pdf

Note 1: Pay attention on combining copies and stapling. If you like to print a PDF (e.g. 4 pages) 10 times, do NOT use the -n parameter. The whole printjob, 4 pages * 10 copies, will be stapled together (only one)!

Solution: Use the 'Repeat Job' option in the advanced tab of the print dialog

Note 2: Do not print many copies at once, because it requires a lot of resources of the printer.

Solution: Use the lpRepeat script instead (with the -s parameter to specify a delay):


$ lpRepeat -d h52 -n 30 -s 15 big_file.pdf

Note 3: Booklet printing can be simplified with the lpBooklet script:


# Color print
$ lpBooklet -d jcolor -f booklet.pdf

# Black & white print
$ lpBooklet -d j -f booklet.pdf

Option values

Duplex: one/two sided print

Value Meaning None One sided !DuplexTumble Two sided along long edge !DuplexNoTumble Two sided along short edge

StaplePos: staple position

Value Portrait mode Landscape mode !PosNone No staple No staple 1PLU Upper left Upper right 1PRU Upper right Bottom right 1PLB Bottom left Upper left 1PRB Bottom right Bottom left 2PL Left x2 Upper x2 2PR Right x2 Bottom x2 2PU Upper x2 Right x2 2PB Bottom x2 Left x2 SDL Middle x2 Middle x2

Printing with graphical interface (evince PDF viewer)

Stapling

In the print preview dialog select j, jcolor, k, or kcolor and on the tab 'Advanced'

  1. choose the position of a staple (here upper left corner)
  2. specify Repeat Job if you need more than one copy

print-staples-pcl-advanced.pngprint-staples-pcl-advanced.png

Note: do not specify Copies on the General tab to print several stapled copies! If you do so, all copies are stapled together!

Booklet

In the print preview dialog select jcolor_booklet or kcolor_booklet - these printers are already configured for booklet printing.

Alternatively, select j, jcolor, k, or kcolor and choose the following options:

  1. Left binding for Booklet Printing on the tab Finishing
  2. Saddle Stitch for Staple Position on the tab Advanced

print-booklet-pcl-finishing.pngprint-booklet-pcl-finishing.pngprint-booklet-pcl-advanced.pngprint-booklet-pcl-advanced.png

Note: booklet printing requires A4 or A5 format.

Printing exams - lpSequential

If you have a personalized exam, one PDF for all students, and you like to print it and the output should be:

  • shifted (easy separation), or
  • stapled,

than use the lpSequential script (commandline).

  • For each exam print, the current page number is shown.
  • You can stop a running print job, by pressing Ctrl-C in the commandline.
  • If you stopped the printing, restart the printjob by specifing the last printed page + 1.
  • : a printer name like k, kcolor, j, or jcolor.
  • : If you have an exam pdf with 200 pages (one big file, 25 students, 8 pages per exam) the whole file will be split in jobs as  and such part will be printed.
  • : '1', if you start from scratch, else the last reported printed page + 1.
  • : This is only necessary if you want to be sure that all exams are in exact same order as in the PDF. A reordering might appear inside the printer, if there are multiple print jobs at the same time in the local printer queue. If a delay is specified, this helps to take care that are never more than 2 jobs in the local printer queue at the same time. The amount of delay in seconds depends on the print job size. Start with 5 seconds and stop and increase if it is too short. You can check the local printer queue on the touchscreen at the copier.

# K Floor (k)
$ lpSequential -o Duplex=None -o StaplePos=1PLU -o StapleType=StapleON -o sides=one-sided <file.pdf> k <pages per exam> <start page to print from> <delay in seconds>
# J Floor (jcolor_booklet) - with color
$ lpSequential -o Duplex=None -o StaplePos=1PLU -o StapleType=StapleON -o sides=one-sided -o print-color-mode=Color <file.pdf> jcolor <pages per exam> <start page to print from> <delay in seconds>

Example: 

Staple lpSequential -o Duplex=None -o StaplePos=1PLU -o StapleType=StapleON -o sides=one-sided exam.pdf k 16 1 0 printer 'k', 16 pages per exam, starting at 1, no delay Shifting lpSequential -o Duplex=None -o sides=one-sided exam.pdf jcolor 8 33 5 printer 'jcolor', 8 pages per exam, starting at 33, 5 seconds delay
  • Most exams are single sided, so switch of the default Duplex mode.

Poster Printing (large)

here for FAQ on ETHZ's decision to outsource etc:  https://ethz.ch/staffnet/en/service/office-supplies-printing-and-mailing/print-publish.publish/futureprint-eth.html > Self-Service Printing > Large format printing
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