====== Tips on Printing ======
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Some general tips on printing and troubleshooting printing problems

    Try to send output of programs to a file instead of directly to a printer. This
 will allow you to check the printout with gs and ghostview before printing or in 
the event of a print failure.
    Conserve trees where you can. When printing a document from a PC or a Mac to the 
main research printer csb2052, make sure that duplex printing is turned on; most PC 
and Mac drivers leave it off by default. When reprinting a large document, reprint 
only those pages that changed, if possible.
    Even if a file previews fine with gs or ghostview, there may be problems 
printing, especially if the file came from a Mac, PC or via the Internet. Check the
 file in a text editor - there may be extra lines or characters before the beginning
 of the Postscript file (which always starts with a line beginning with "%!PS"). If
 there are extra characters, this will cause the printer to believe that its input
 is a plain text file and it will print it as such. Remove the extra characters in a 
text editor and the printer should recognize the file correctly.

    Printers generate a header page for every job that is printed. An easy way to 
avoid printing extra header pages when printing multiple files is to batch them 
together. For example:
    lpr foo1
    lpr foo2
    lpr foo3
    a
    would generate three header pages, while
    lpr foo1 foo2 foo3
    would generate one.