How To Print From A Sun Ray

You will have different methods of printing depending on your environment (Windows, Linux or Solaris).

Windows

If you are using the Lab Environment, it is not possible for Windows to know where you are physically located, so your printers will not be set. However, a "Map Printers" app is automatically started for you when you log in, and you can select which printer(s) you wish to add to your session. (The Map Printers app may also be started from the Windows Start Menu.)

If you are using the Admin Desktop, your printers should already be in place and you can print just as if you were printing from a Windows PC.

Solaris or Linux

1. Unlike windows, individual users cannot define their own printers. The printers have to be defined globally by the system administrators. The printers that have been defined on the Sun Ray servers are:

2. The command to print from Unix Command Line is:
   lpr -P printername filename
   where the printername should be replaced by the name of the printer, and the filename should be replaced by the name of the file. So for example, if you are trying to print a document called "homework.txt" in the current directory to the anderson1 printer, type:
   lpr -P anderson1 homework.txt
   
3. Printing from applications
   1. In Firefox, select "Print to LPR". This will print to your default printer. The default printer is shown in the lower-left corner of the screen when you first log in.
   2. In applications like StarOffice, the printers show up in a drop down list when you select the Print command. Just select the printer that you want to print to. More info about StarOffice.
   3. In applications like Fluent, Acrobat Reader, and Matlab, the printers do not show up in a drop down list. Instead it asks for a Print Command. In that case enter the following print command:
      lpr -P printername
      where the printername should be replaced by the name of the printer to which you want to print. The names of all the defined printers are given at the top of this web page.