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-====== Tips on Printing ======
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-Some general tips on printing and troubleshooting printing problems:n
-    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.