ITS Labs Remote Printing at UP
What is Remote Printing?
Remote printing is the ability to print to selected ITS lab printers from non Lab machines. Pages will be accounted for just as if the printouts came from a ITS lab machine.
How is it Done?
Download and run the appropriate package below on a non Lab computer. This will install a software package and and several printers called RemotePrinting, RemotePrintingHP, and RemotePrintingColor on the computer. Whenever a job is printed to one of these printers you will be asked for your access id which is then associated with the print job. The different print queues correspond to type of printer that you want to print the job on. RemotePrinting will format a job for Dell 5310 Printers. RemotePrintingHP will format the printout for HP laserjet printers and RemotePrintingColor formats the job for a HP Color LaserJet Printer.
To actually print the output, go to a location where there is a release station and the type of printer the job was formatted for and log on to the release station with your access id and password. The release station will display the print jobs it can print that have been associated with your access id. You can choose whether to print the job(s) at that location or delete them. If jobs are not printed or deleted within 12 hours they will be recycled into new bits. Only jobs that are released to be printed are charged for.
Where Can I print?
University Park
There are release stations and Dell 5310 black and white printers at the following locations
- Atherton Room 108
- Pollock Room 201
- Findlay Room 6
- Fisher room 101
- Katz Building, Basement, Second and Third floor Hallways
- Kunkel Lounge
- Thomas Building, first floor hallway
- Waring Room 107
- Warnock Room 108
- Redifer Room 24
- HUB Top of the stairs by the book store
There are release stations and HP Laserjet black and white printers at the following locations at University Park
- Pattee West Room 113L
There are release stations and HP Color printers at the following locations
- Pollock Room 201
- Findlay Room 6
- Waring Room 107
- Redifer Room 24
Altoona Campus release stations and Dell black and white laser printers
- Aaron 4th floor Hallway
- Cypress 109 and 110
- Devorris Downtown Center Basement
- Hawthorn 234
- Sheetz Nursing
Dickenson School of Law Carlisle Campus
- Trickett Building Basement Hallway
Machine Requirements
All packages require a working network connection to download or print. If there is a newer package on the web site your computer will try to update itself with the new package.
Windows
A PC with Windows XP or Vista or 7, 32bit
Download the distribution package PSURemotePrinting_for_W2K.exe
Window Vista 64 Bit and Windows 7 64 Bit
Download the distribution package PSURemotePrinting_for_X64.exe
Installation:
- Double click the downloaded file
- Click the "Install" button at the bottom of the window that appears
- Some anti virus packages may notice changes to the system a display warnings.
Known problems:
- If 64 bit drivers for the same printer types are already installed they should be removed before installing this package.
MAC
Mac with Tiger or Leopard.
Installation instructions:
- Double-click the 'PSU Remote Printing" volume that should mount once the downloaded completes
- Double-click the 'PSU Pharos Remote Printing' installer
- Click the 'Continue' button
- Click the 'Continue' button
- Select the volume to install the package on
- Click the 'Continue' button
- Click the 'Install' or 'Upgrade' button
- Enter an Administrator's Name and Password
- Click the 'Close' button
There will now be three printers
'RemotePrintingDell' for printing to Dell 5310n B&W laser printers
'RemotePrintingHP' to print to and HP printer, mainly Libraries
'RemotePrintingColor' to print to HP Color Laser Printers
Selected the appropriate printer when you print. Note: since one of these new
printers was the last
printer created it will become the default printer. To set a different default
printer, launch 'Printer Setup Utility' which is in the 'Utilities' folder in
the 'Applications' folder.
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