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Install a network printer
Printers at the physics department
Most networked printers at the physics department are managed by central print servers. On central Linux hosts all printers are automatically available. On Windows and Mac OS X hosts you have to install the printers you want to use yourself.
Install a network printer on Windows XP • Windows 7 • Windows 10 • Mac OS X • Ubuntu
Printers at ZEDAT
ZEDAT has some special printers for printing posters up to A0 (see http://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/Print/Queuenamen).
Windows and Mac OS X
In order to print to these printers from Windows or Mac OS X you have to connect to these printer directly from your computer following the ZEDAT instructions which can be found at http://www.zedat.fu-berlin.de/Print/Installation.
Linux
ZEDAT printers are already installed on the central Linux hosts. The queue-names are the ZEDAT queue-name with zedat_ prepended to it (use lpstat -v to list the printers).
Ricoh FollowMe Printers
FollowMe sends your print job to a personal queue that only gets printed once you go to a FollowMe printer and log in at it.
Please note, that printing to FollowMe will only work if either:
- connected from a University Network
- connected from Eduroam
- connected with ZEDAT or ZEDV VPN