Setting up Printers

You can easily print on Rose-Hulman's campus using Papercut. You need to be connected to the eduroam Wi-Fi network to print.

You will need the cups, samba and system-config-printer packages.

To check this, in Ubuntu/Debian-based distributions with the apt package manager, type sudo apt-get install cups samba system-config-printer. This will install the required dependencies on your system.

In Arch Linux based distributions (Manjaro, EndeavourOS, Parabola, etc.), type sudo pacman -S cups samba. For Arch you will also need to configure samba. The default configuration should be fine.

Initial Setup

You must be logged into the eduroam network. These tutorials assume you have cups already installed on your system. When you setup printers on your laptop, there are two available print queues. One is for black and white printing and one for printing to the library. You only need to add these two to your system and you should be able to use any printer on campus by scanning that printer's QR code to release the job. The hostnames for the queues are:

Name	URL	Printers
Color Print Queue	print.rose-hulman.edu/RHIT%20Library%20Color%20Printing	Library Color Printer
Black & White Print Queue	print.rose-hulman.edu/RHIT%20BW%20Printing	All other campus printers

Via system-config-printer

Using the terminal, run system-config-printer

Click the unlock button in the top right corner and input your password in the popup.

Click Add

In the new window, expand Network Printer and choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

In the address box enter ether the Color or Black & White URL

Select Set authentication details now and add your Rose-Hulman username and password

Do not click the Verify button, it will always report a failure even if everything is correct

printer network settings

Click Forward

Leave the driver selection on Generic

driver selection page 1

Click Forward

Select PostScript from the left box

page 2 of driver selection

Click Forward

Check the Duplexer box

Click Forward

Give the printer a name such as BWprinting

page for naming the printer

Click apply

Choose yes to printing a test page

The page should report as printing successfully

Click on on the Printer Properties window

Go to https://print.rose-hulman.edu:9192/mobile/release?#printers

Login with your rose username and password

Click on the printer you want to print from

You should see (Test Page) in the print que

Papercut web sight

Cancel the print job

If the print job exists you can now print from any application to the newly added printer and then use Papercut to send it to any of the printers on campus

Troubleshooting

Rose-Hulman provided resources

How to print from Ubuntu

How to print from a Mac

How to print from a personal Windows device

How to print from your provided Thinkpad

Can't print

Make sure cups is enabled in a terminal: sudo systemctl status cups. If it says it's disabled or stopped, try typing: sudo systemctl enable cups && sudo systemctl start cups

Paper looks weird

Make sure you have selected Letter paper and not A4 paper in your printer settings and make that the default. That will make the page margins appear less "airy" on real paper. Sometimes Linux defaults to A4 when setting up a printer for the first time.