Using the EWS Printers

      Engineering students are given a 300 page quota at the beginning of each semester. Students with temporary accounts on the workstations are assigned a zero (0) quota. In order to print over quota, students are given the option to be charged for printed pages by agreeing to terms outlined on the following Web page:

https://www-s.ews.uiuc.edu/ews-s/print_agree.

To find out how much of your quota you have used, type: uquota at the UNIX prompt.

      If your print job seems "stuck," tell the consultant-do not resubmit your print job multiple times (this will only slow things down even more). Print jobs are not printed automatically. Please follow the direction at the printer terminal or while using pq

      To conserve paper and other printing resources, we ask that students recycle all discarded paper products (there is a recycling bin in every lab). Printouts will be saved for two days, but EWS is not responsible for lost or stolen printouts. Do not use the printers as a copy machine. If you need multiple copies of a printout, use a copy machine.

      Sometimes users need to print one page on one sheet of paper. To facilitate the printing of single page, use following command:

      Users often need to print multiple pages on one sheet of paper due to the large amount of pages that need to be printed. The purpose of using this command is to save paper and conserve user's print quota. To facilitate the printing of multiple pages, we have developed a utility named mpage.

The usage of mpage is as follows: 

Printing Screen Dumps

      Users often need to print the contents of a window. To facilitate the printing of a window, we have developed a utility named ewsdump. The usage of ewsdump is as follows:

ewsdump [-f file_name] [-p printer_name] [-n window_name]

      To print the contents of a window, select the window, then type the command ewsdump. This will print a copy of the selected window to the default printer. If -f is used, output is sent to a PostScript file. If neither -f or -p is chosen, the PostScript goes to standard output.

      The EWS Color Laser Printer, cecolor1, is located in the Newmark Lab. To print to this printer simply use the lpr, mpage or ewsdump commands. When printing from cecolor1 it is important to know that printing one color page is equal to printing four (4) black and white pages on another EWS printer.

      Before printing a job you may want to examine the available printer queues to determine which printer has the least number of print jobs waiting (the sooner your job will be printed). Once your job has been submitted, you may also want to know where in the print queue your job is (how many jobs are ahead of yours). To view the print queue on any UNIX workstation, you have two options. You man run pq, or the java version, pqj. Only pqj works on the NT workstations. The two programs are nearly identical.

Starting the printer queue programs

      To start pq on the UNIX machines, simply type pq at the command line or click the "Print Jobs" button on the button bar. To start pqj on the UNIX machines.

      To start pqj on the NT machines click the desktop icon "Print Job Browser" or you can find the program on the Start button under "Other".

Releasing a job in the print Queue

      Once the job is sent to the print queue, it needs to be released from the print queue in order to print. Using either queue program, select your job using the arrow keys. In pq simply press the p key to send your job to the printer. In pqj you can click the print button.

Switching between queues

      In pq you can cycle through the queues for each printer by using the q key. To cycle backwards, use the v key.

      If you are using the java version of pq (pqj) you can click the next or previous buttons, or the dropdown menu at the top of the window.

Canceling or Deleting a Print Job

      The print queue programs can be used to cancel a job. Use the arrow keys to highlight your job, and in pq press the c key to cancel your job, under pqj click the cancel button.

      Jobs that are currently printing can also be deleted. Simply cancel the job as if it were a job waiting to be printed.

Refreshing print queue

If you are using pq and can't see your print job, press r to refresh print queue.

Completing pq session

To end a pq session, press the letter x. You must click the 'x' in the upper right corner to close a pqj session.

      Engineering students are given a 300 page quota at the beginning of each semester. Students with temporary accounts on the workstations are assigned a zero (0) quota. In order to print over quota, students are given the option to be charged for printed pages by agreeing to terms outlined on the following Web page:

https://www-s.ews.uiuc.edu/ews-s/print_agree.

To see your print quota, type

uquota

You will see screen similar to one below:

Filesystem Server Quota Used ---------------- ---------- ----- ------ /home2 sunserv2 7000 6125 print quota 300 225

      It will tell you how much Quota you have and how many you have already Used. In the above example, a person has a usage quota 7000 and that person already used 6125 kilobytes. Also, this person is allowed to print 300 and that person has already used 225 pages of their print quota.

• EWS Printing Policy- an overview of the EWS Printing Policy.