A4 format is commonly used in the rest of the world, so it's not surprising to receive DVI or Postscript files from there. If you try to print in on our printers which are set up for Letter size (8.5"x11"), you may end up with less than satisfactory results.
If you have the TeX/LaTeX source, you can change the source to use the new format and run TeX/LaTeX again.
You can also resize the Postscript output (if you have a DVI file, convert it to Postscript first), by issuing the command
psresize -PA4 -pletter in.ps out.ps
and print the resulting file out.ps.
If this is for publication that requires it to be on A4 paper, you can buy A4 paper from the UBC Bookstore. Ask the IT staff on how to set up the printer to print on A4 paper.
Convert dvi file to ps file then use lpr command to print the converted ps file:
dvips -o outputfilename.ps inputfilename.dvi
lpr -Pprintername outputfilename.dvi
Or pipe it through directly:
dvips filename.dvi | lpr -Pprintername
As of Dec. 1, 2005, if you do not set the printer your printouts should go to, it will be thrown away. The method to set your printer is different for Windows and Unix (Linux or Solaris).
For Windows
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Setting a printer for an individual print job
Most Windows applications will allow you to choose the printer from a menu when you try to print something. Choose the appropriate printer.
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Setting a printer for a session
To set a default printer for a login session (i.e. this setting will be forgotten once you log out), you can go to the printer settings control panel:
Start -> Settings -> Printers
then bring up the printer menu by placing the mouse over the printer's icon you want to print to and right-click, then select
Select As Default Printer
A check mark should appear over the printer icon of your choice.
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Setting a permanent default printer for a workstation
To set a permanent default printer (for the workstation you are using: you'll have to repeat it for another workstation), go to
Start Menu -> Run ...
Then, type the following into the text input window:
\samba\win-share\SetDefaultPrinter
Then double-click the appropriate printer batch file. From then on, that will be your default printer for this particular workstation.
For Unix
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Setting a printer for an individual print job
Some application (like firefox) will allow you to choose the printer. Most printing is done from the command line via lpr. You can tell lpr where to send the output to via the -P switch:
lpr -Pname file ...
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Setting a printer for a login session
To set a default printer for a login session (i.e. this setting will be forgotten once you log out), you can set the environment variable PRINTER. In tcsh (the default shell), you can enter
setenv PRINTER name
- Setting a permanent default printer for your MathNet Unix account
To permanently set a default printer for your Unix sessions, you can enter the above command to set your PRINTER environment variable in your startup script, found in your home directory:
~/.login
SYNTAX
lpq -Pprinter
EXAMPLE
lpq -Php5
PDF FILES
First use acroread to open the file. Then use acroread's "print" menu.
JPG AND GIF FILES
First use Firefox to open the file. Then use Firefox's "print" menu.
For text files, you can first convert them to ps files before you print them. You can use Unix command "enscript" to do this. Enscript converts text files to PostScript and spools gen- erated PostScript output to the specified printer or leaves it to file. If no input files are given, enscript processes standard input. Enscript can be extended to handle dif- ferent output media and it has many options which can be used to customize printouts (Use command "man enscript" to find more information).
SYNTAX:
enscript [options] filename
OPTION EXAMPLES:
-1, -2, --columns=num Specify how many columns each page have. With long option --columns=num you can specify more than 2 columns per page. -a pages, --pages=pages Specify which pages are printed. Page specification pages can be given in following formats: start-end print pages from start to end -end print pages from 0 to end start- print pages from start to end page print page page odd print odd pages even print even pages -A align, --file-align=align Align separate input files to even align page count. This is handy for two-side and 2-up printings (--file-align=2). -b header, --header=header
EXAMPLE
enscript foo.txt Print file foo.txt to the default printer. enscript -2 foo.txt Print file foo.txt to two columns. enscript -2r foo.txt Print file to two columns and rotate output 90 degrees (landscape). enscript -G2rE -U2 foo.c gaudy header, two columns, landscape, code highlighting, 2-up printing.
Windows
To find which printer is the default printer using Windows, go to the printer control panel:
Start -> Settings -> Printers
The default printer will have a check mark over the icon.
Unix (Linux, Solaris)
Under Unix, the default printer can be found by looking at the output of
lpq
For example, the output may look like
Printer: pulp@viol 'Lexmark Optra Se3455, Rm209 (1-sided)' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job 'smith@viol+232' removed at 20:15:34.286 Filter_status: done at 20:15:34.271
The default printer is named "pulp" and it's located in Rm209. The last printout was sent by user "smith" at 20:15:34. To send it to a particular printer, you can supply the "-P" flag to the print command:
lpr -Ppulp file ...
If you have a missing printout, first make sure that the printer you intended to print to to was actually the printer used (Unix: use the lpq command to see that your username was the last finished job and that the room location is what you expect). If the printout is still missing, it could be that
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You sent it to the wrong printer. Don't just keep resending your printout without finding out what happended to it.
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Somebody mistakenly took your output.
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You have not set the printer that your print job should go to and sent it to the default 'null' printer. See note at top of this page.
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The file has Postscript errors and can't be printed. Try viewing the file with Ghostscript to see if it is well formed. Also, try printing from within the same room as the printer so that you can observe the printer. If you suspect it is a Postscript error, contact the IT staff.
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You are trying to print something other than letter size (8.5x11.0inch) paper. This is especially common with European print-ready files formatted for A4 size appear which is not commonly used in North America. You'll may have to reformat the paper in this case. Check the LCD window to see if it complains about not being able to supply the correct size paper.
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The printer is jammed or is out of paper - the output of "lpq" will have pending jobs to be printed (and your is last in line) and the LCD window on the printer has an error condition. In this case, contact the IT staff. Unless you know what you are doing, don't try to repair it yourself.
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You tried to print a file the printer does not understand. You ought to get a shingle sheet stating that it could not print your file format. In this case you'll need to convert the file format to something the printer can understand (like Postscript).
- Configuration screw up: if you cannot explain why a print job disappeared, contact the IT staff. We can't fix it if we don't know about it.
Most printers will print on both sides of the paper by default -- to make the print-out single-sided, try adding s at the end of the printer's name.
Update Mar 2018
Please use TCP/IP printing method
Do not use CUPS method below until further notice
Printers Info:
NOTES: Must be using wired to connect to local StatNet internal network in order to use our printers.
You can not print from UBC wireless.
Alternate how to add printer usingTCP/IP HPJetdirect Socket printing.
Print server: cups.stat.ubc.ca
http://cups.stat.ubc.ca:631/printers
I) Windows Setup
Step1:
Find out which printer you want to add here:
http://cups.stat.ubc.ca:631/printers
Look at "Description" for the printer Model.
Download PCL6 or PCL5 or Postscript driver from the Vendor site.
If your printer's Vendor doesn't have one, Windows/MacOSX/Linux operating systems comes with print drivers
installed. You should choose one of these drivers that is as close as possible to the name of the printer.
Some "Generic Postscript" driver would work but you might lose some special functionality such as Duplex, Booklet.
Do not use "Universal driver"
Install the driver and notice where you install it "c:\....)
Step2:Click on Start -- Setting -- Printer and Faxes
1. Select add a printer
2. Select add a network printer
Click on "Connect to a printer on Internet or home or office network.
3. Put in for the URL :
http://cups.stat.ubc.ca:631/printers/Printer_name
Substitute the name of the printer for Printer_name.
Click Next
4. For the print driver select correct driver which you have just
installed.
Click "Have Disk" -- Browse --
Find location of your new printer driver, Select it and OK
II) Mac Leopard / Linux /Unix:
1) Add one printer: ( Mac OSX only)
Open "Systems Preferences" -- Print & Fax
Click on "+" to open 'Add Printer' window
Click "IP" icon then enter:
Protocol: Select Internet Printing Protocol - IPP
Address: cups.stat.ubc.ca
(* "Printer_name" is the name of StatNet printer )
Queue: printers/Printer_name [ e.g. printers/hp5 ]
Name: Printer_name [ e.g. hp5, Duplex ]
Location: [ e.g. ESB mail room ]
Print Using: Select Printer Softwares (ie. HP Laserjet Enterprise M605 with Duplex option)
Check: Duplex Unit
Click Add
Repeat for each new printer.
2) If you want to have ALL StatNet public servers
WARNING Mac OSX: it will remove ALL your old printers and the removal of the previous printers is not undoable.
Add the following line to /etc/cups/client.conf as root:
ServerName cups.stat.ubc.ca
Bogofiltler needs train/retrain often to make it works 100%
See this URL for how it works
http://www.bogofilter.org/
We use the term "ham "for email you want, "spam" for email you don't want. We also assume you save your ham/spam and others email in mail/ folder. See Notes below of you only have Mail (uppercase) folder.
- Login to SUN Unix server only.
- ssh your_login@stat.ubc.ca (Be.stat.ubc.ca)
I have have a copy of spam folder for you to start training bogofilter manually.
bogofilter -sM < /usr/local/data/etc/bogofilter/spam
Second step, you need "ham" email to train bogofilter.
You can use any saved email (good known emails) as ham.
bogofilter -nM < mail/ham
or
bogofilter -nM < mail/tha
NOTES: If you only see Mail (Uppercase) folder, do this
ln -s Mail mail
Bogofiler will store your database in your home dir ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db
Edit your .procmail file using vi or emacs or pico by typing
vi ~/.procmailrc
- Add to content below:
:0fw
| /usr/local/bin/bogofilter -u -e -p
:0e
{ EXITCODE=75 HOST }
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: Spam, tests=bogofilter
mail/Bspam
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter
mail/Bunsure
# Used during vacation: forwards to vacation, then makes a cc for # myself
# Unhash 2 lines below to turn on your vacation
#:0 c
#|/usr/bin/vacation -t1d $LOGNAME
Notes: "Bunsure" and "Bspam" are two "spam" and "not sure" spam files that bogofilter saved for you in the mail folder. You need to check them often to make sure you don't have false positive or false negative. You need to sort "Bunsure" and "Bspam" into real "ham" and "spam" and "re-train "your filter to update your bogofitler database (wordlist.db)
To enable the filter type
and add this line (Note: include the double quotes " ")
:0 c
|/usr/bin/vacation -t1d $USER
If you setup your as describe above, you can setup a cronjob to update your wordlist.db hourly
crontab -e (crontab editor = vi mode. You can changes by edit your shell environment EDITOR=emacs)
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/bgupdate > /dev/null 2>&1
Manual update:
After saving your new spam/ham form Bspam and Bunsure, run this
bgupdate
You may need to run it twice the first time.
Advance option: Personalize your bogofilter:
If you want personal configuration for bogofilter, just copy this file /nfs/packages/bogofilter/etc/bogofilter.cf.example to your bogofilter directory.
Reasons
There are many reasons that would prevent an Email from getting to its destination (whether that be your mailbox or someone else's). Here are some common reasons:
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Wrong Email address: either the username portion or the domain portion may be wrong. A common mistake is to include specific hostname to an Email address, such as "user@host.mail.domain" when the correct Email address is "user@mail.domain". You ought to get a notice of this ("bounce message").
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Mail too large: most places have restrictions on the size of a single piece of Email they will accept. Exceeding that limit will result in the mail being rejected. You ought to get a notification when this happens.
- Mailbox is full: our site enforce storage quotas. If your mailbox size exceeds your allotted limit, no Email can be delivered until you make more space available (i.e. delete some Email). See elsewhere in our FAQ to see how to check quotas.
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Mail server is busy or not operational: a mail server (either sending or receiving) may not always be available to immediately deliver mail. In these cases, mail will be queued and delivery retried at periodic intervals until the receiving mail server is available. If the mail server does not respond in a reasonable amount of time, the mail will be deemed non-deliverable, and a bounce message will be sent back to the sender.
The retry interval and the total retry time policy is set by the sending Email server: at our site, mail will be retried every 4 hours for a maximum of 24 hours.
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Blacklisting or spam/virus filtering: some sites use blacklisting, or spam or virus filtering to try to detect unwanted mail and reject them. Depending on the mail policy at the offending site, the sender may or may not be given notice that mail has been filtered.
At our site, we do employ blacklists and do virus filtering. The sender always gets a notice stating the reasons why their Email was rejected, but some Email users are not techically savvy enough to understand what's going on. If you suspect that Email being sent to you is being blocked, contact the IT staff (see below about reporting mail problems) and they may be able to suggests workarounds or remedial actions.
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Mail being forwarded incorrectly or mail loops being formed.
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The user has set lax permissions on their home directory. Our mail server, for example, will refuse to deliver mail to a user with a home directory that is world writable.
Most of these problems are apparent when an error message occurs (either from your mail reader or from a Email rejection notice).
How to report problems
When reporting mail problems, it is important to give as much detailed and accurate information as possible. Sometimes the only way to diagnose these problems (especially when the problem is days or weeks old) is by looking through the mail logs, and precise time/sender/recipient details are required to track the problem down. Email headers (envelope information) from Email (if available) is usually useful, and should also be included when reporting problems.