Mathematics Public Printing

About math printing

About math printing

Departmental printing for instructional or administrative jobs is available to all authorized students affiliated with the department, faculty and staff.

Please note:

Printing books is not allowed,
when printing many copies of an item, print one copy, then use the copiers to reproduce the rest.
Default printing settings are grayscale, letter size (8.5x11in), two-sided printing over long-edge.
If printer is out of toner, conatct [mailto:trouble@math.berkeley.edu].

Basic troubleshooting

Connect to the internet via eduroam (recommended campus network).
If a PDF document won't print from your web browser, try printing from standalone PDF viewer e.g. Mac Preview, Linux Document viewer, etc.
If a PDF document won't print from web browser download the document, then save it and print it as a PDF.
Try uninstalling and then reinstalling the printer.
If still experiencing a printing problem contact [mailto:request@math.berkeley.edu].

Public printers

HP printers

744 printer queue url: [https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/744],
838 printer queue url: [https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/838],
1002 printer queue url: [https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/1002].

Canon printers

958_large printer queue url: [https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/958_large],
958_small printer queue url: [https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/958_small].

The major caveat is that Canon printers won't print A4 document size option. Ensure that on your documentclass latex declation A4 isn't set as an option i.e., \documentclass[option(s)]{class_name}.

Add a departmental public printer instructions

Printing from your personal Mac computer

On your Mac, go to "System Preferences", click on "Printers & Scanners".
Under Printers, click "+" to open Add Printer window.
In the sidebar (top of the window), click the IP tab (network icon) and complete the following fields:
- in the Address field type printserver.math.berkeley.edu,
- for Protocol choose the IPP option.
- In the Queue field type printers/958_large or printers/958_small, or printers/744, etc.
- In the Name field you could type a name that would help you to identify the printer.
- In the Use field select Auto Select (AirPrint or Generic PostScript will be Auto Selection), and click "Add".
From the Default printer dropwindow select the desired Default printer.
From the Default paper size dropwindow select US Letter or 8.5x11in.

Printing from your personal Windows computer

Select the Start button, then select Settings Devices, then select Printers & scanners,
- click Open Printers & scanners settings,
- wait for it to find nearby printers, then choose the one you want to use, and select Add device.
- Type in the Printer Queue URL e.g. https://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/printers/958_large to locate the public printer.
for the driver select Microsoft, then Microsoft PS Class Driver. Do not use PCL printer drivers, use Postscript drivers instead.
- Install the HP Universal Postcript driver for HP printers, in particular, 1002, 838 and 744.
- It is recommended to install the Canon Postscript driver for imageRunner Advance printers.

Printing from Unix command-line

On your computer open a Command-Line window and run the following printing tasks:

Check the status of a printer by running the command lpq [options] _queue where lpq shows printer queue status, -P specifies a printer and _queue idicates the printer's name
- e.g. lpq -P _744,
If the output is ready, then run lpr -P _queue file-path where lpr command indicates print files
- e.g. lpr -P _744 Path/to/file.pdf.
To view the information status of a print job(s) use lpstat command
- i.e., lpstat -W [option] -o _queue -u username
- to view completed or not-completed jobs use -W follow by your selection -this option must have to appear before -o option or any queue name e.g. -W completed,
- to list the jobs queued in a given printer use -o option follow by the _queue e.g. -o _958_large,
- to specify jobs completed or not-completed by a username use -u follow by username e.g. -u myusername.
- In particular run lpstat -W completed/notcompleted -o _958_large -u myusername.
To cancel a printing job in queue use cancel command follow by a job listed in queue
- run lpstat -W not-completed -o _queue -u username,
- from the output, the first column denotes the name of the job in the e.g. _958_large-15.