The printers in r3 are

• a HP LaserJet 8000 in room#1 in the backflat.
• a HP Business Inkjet 2250tn in room#1 in the backflat.

All printers are served by the BeagleBone printerserver on the LAN: drucker.realraum.at.

• The BeagleBone will automagically switch the printer on and off.
• CUPS will automagically list the available printers without installing it in your printing dialog.
• All you need to do is
  1. be in the realraum Network
  2. select the desired printer when printing something

To cancel print-jobs use the CUPS Administrative Interface

• Printer does not power on: Wait, the script checks for print-jobs only every 30s. Also, some morron might have disconnected the BeagleBone, the Printer or the power or switched off the printer manually.

• If it does not work: Check if the tiny white usb-hub has power. Disconnect and Reconnect all USB-cables and power from the tiny white usb-hub. That should be all that's needed, unless the USB-LPT cable has a loose contact inside the cable.

• Printing slow: recently we switched the Laserjet from PCL driver (fast) back to PostScript-Driver (slow) since only the PostScript-Driver supports A3.

• Injket Error page: The CUPS support for the 2250TN is poor. Currently there is a choice between one driver that crashes the printer after one page or another driver that prints successfully but with one error-page after each print-job. We choose the later.

If the printers are NOT automagically discovered in Windows, try installing Bonjour for Windows