Department Printer Set-up
Install Cups as your printing system. (Many Linux systems have cups as the defualt printing system.) Downloads of RPMs and source are available at www.cups.org
FreeBSD users can build Cups from the ports. (print/cups-base, print/cups-lpr) Debian Linux users, run 'apt-get install cupsys-bsd'.
When Cups is configured, place the following line in the client.conf file, (which will be in /etc, /etc/cups, or /usr/local/etc/cups):
ServerName spool.physics.purdue.edu
Then, Cups should be able to access any department printer as on a PCN UNIX system
Special Note about paper size in CUPS
One thing a UNIX/Linux user needs to be aware about printing is that many UNIX print dialog boxes, including the print system that is part of the Gnome desktop system in Debian, will default to A4 size paper instead of U.S. Letter. Gnome-print is actually hard coded to initially default to A4. To change the default simply change the setting to “letter” and print a document. Gnome printing always defaults to the paper size used during the immediately previous print.