A HP Designjet 800ps is available for CS Department staff and students use. It is located in AKW Room 001.
The HP Designjet 800ps printer is the professional and robust graphics printer for workgroups of 3 to 10 people in graphic design studios, in-house graphic departments and advertising agencies. It delivers ultimate photo quality with continuous tones, smooth transitions and a wide color gamut. Complete with a "virtual computer" inside, the printer does all of the processing work and immediately frees up your own computer. It has a media path that is 42 inches (107 cm) wide.
A windows machine dedicated to Poster Printing is also in AKW 001.
We don't advise folks to send jobs to this printer unless they are in AKW 001. Users should submit their finished posters to the machine in room 001 for printing and then print from there.
Submitting print jobs
Users can submit their print jobs to a windows share has been set up on stove.cs.yale.edu.
From your windows machine, click on Start, run and then type: \\stove\submit
On your Linux machine (using samba): smbclient //stove/submit -W yale
Command line is similar to ftp
Printer Settings:
The paper to be used for the posters is 24in wide HP Matte Proofing Paper. This paper is already loaded in the printer. We also have 42 in. paper available in AKW 001 next to the printer.
Documentation on the use of the designjet 800 can be found here:
More information on large format printing can be found at HP's official large format printing site:
Paper Jam? How to remove paper jams
Paper Out?
The rolls of paper are very heavy. Someone will replace the paper for you. Send mail to: wss@yale.edu
If you cannot wait to have someone replace the paper, this doc will show you specific instructions on how to replace the paper.
You will find extra toner cartridges on the shelf above the printer. Or, send mail to: wss@yale.edu. We will replace the toner for you.
