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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

There are release stations and HP Laserjet black and white printers at the following locations at University Park

There are release stations and HP Color printers at the following locations

Altoona Campus release stations and Dell black and white laser printers

Dickenson School of Law Carlisle Campus

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:

Known problems:

MAC

Mac with Tiger or Leopard.

Download disk image. PSU Remote Printing.dmg

Installation instructions:

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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