Printing in the William M. MacDonald Physics Open Workstation Lab

Printing in the Physics OWL

There are two printers in the Physics OWL area, one in each of the two rooms. Associated with each printer are two print queues; one for pay-for-print, and the other to provide a free quota of printing to Physics Department students in their academic work and/or as Physics TA's. Information about pay-for-print accounts can be obtained from Laser Print Cost Recovery in room 1400 of the Computer & Space Sciences Building. The queue names and locations are listed in the table below.

Users can print to either the Pay-for-Print or the quota'd queues from PNCE-Unix environment using the qpr command. The PC's in the Physics OWL automatically print to the Pay-for-Print queues; to submit to the quota'ed queue, follow the procedure below.

Quota'ed printing from PC Applications in the Physics OWL - How to Use 'powlprint'

In order to access your Physics Departmental Printing Quota when printing from a PC application in the Physics OWL, you must do the following:

1. Print as you normally do from your Windows application.
2. When the application is finished printing, wait until the Pay-For-Print dialog box appears. It might be underneath other windows, so you might have to minimize the application.
3. DO NOT press any buttons on the Pay-For-Print box at this time.
4. Telnet to login.physics.umd.edu using Telnet SSH Application and loggin into your PNCE-Unix Glue account (or skip this step if you are already logged in).
   NOTE:You must have a direct telnet session from your PC to login.physics.umd.edu. E. g., telneting to WAM and then from WAM.umd.edu to login.physics.umd.edu will not work.
5. Type 'powlprint' (without the quotes) at the prompt on login.physics.umd.edu Your output should go to the printer in the same room as the PC you are sitting at. Alternatively, you can specify either powlprint powl or powlprint powl2 to direct the output to a specific POWL printer. TA Office (POWL-3) computers print to the printer in PHY-3111.
6. Press the "Cancel" button on the Pay-For-Print dialog box.
7. Pick up your printout.

Troubleshooting 'powlprint' Problems:

• If you get the error message "Connection Refused" on login.physics.umd.edu in response to the 'powlprint' command, the "powlprint rpcd" was probably stopped on your POWL machine. You can restart the 'powlprint rpcd' server from either the "Start Menu" or from POWLPRINT desktop icon.
• If you get a different "rcp:...." error message, you may have accidentally removed your print job by doing something with the Pay-For-Print dialog box. Please retry printing from your application and then follow the above procedure.
• If you cannot resolve the problem, get the First-Aider's help. You might also restart your system and try again.
• If a First-Aider is unavailable or unable to resolve your problem, please submit a request through physhelp. Please include a detailed description of the problem -- what you did, how the computer replied, what POWL machine you were on, etc.

Comments:

• The Campus Pay-For-Print system was implemented in the Physics OWL due to the high use and abuse of the printing in this facility. The department could no longer afford to support this.
• If you find the above bypass to the Pay-For-Print process too time consuming or confusing, you can simplify this process by obtaining and using a Campus Pay-For-Print account.
• Non-Physics majors and non-TAs will NOT be given free print quotas.

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