Printer Names

Question 3.5   What are the names of the printers?

There are printers on each floor for short documents that are needed quickly. Please pick up printout from these printers promptly.

327

Clearly the printer in room 327.

uff

Also known as puff or Puff or 108, the printer in the main office on the first floor. The short name is so that one can use -Puff.

203

Also known as ljet, this is the printer in the MacLab.

The heavy duty printer in 438 (the computer lab on the fourth floor) has several different names for its different functions. The names all start with mx

mx

Ordinary single sided printing, letter size paper.

mxd

Double sided printing, letter size paper.

mxh

Punched paper, letter size, single sided.

mxhd

Punched paper, letter size, double sided.

mxl

Long Paper, single sided

mxld

Long Paper, double Sided

mxs

Setup to print transparencies. Requires special media.

It is also possible it print on the mainframe's postscript printer, and the printed documents will appear, with some delay, in a box appropriate to your name in the computer centers I/O room in the basement. This is a very good way to print documents that you do not need immediately.

The name of the printer is mfps (Main Frame PostScript), and it has several variants for different functions:

mfps

Form Feed Paper: low resolution, but it is almost bound like a book.

mfpsn

High Quality single sheet, single sided. The n means no holes.

mfpsnd

High Quality single sheet, double sided.