Xerox 4213 Printer Replacement Underway

The replacement of the Computing Center's old Xerox 4213 printers is now underway. Two of the old printers have been entirely phased out, leaving only one still in operation until early July, and the new Xerox DocuPrint N24 laser printers are now available.

You may access the new printers on the VMScluster as queue SYS$DOCUPRINT, and on darkwing, as printer "docuprint."

Features of the new printers

Among other features, the new DocuPrint laser printers offer

• 24 page-per-minute print speed
• 600 dot-per-inch resolution
• a 100,000 page-per-month duty cycle
• duplex printing
• PCL 5e emulation with 45 fonts
• PostScript level 2 support with 35 fonts

Printer forms

Ten printer forms are currently available, including

• DOCUPRINT_DEFAULT (for standard default setup, or for PostScript and PCL jobs that perform their own setup)
• PORTRAIT_66 (Courier, no top and bottom margins, 66 lines per page)
• LETTER and LETTER_66 (for user-provided letterhead)
• LANDSCAPE and LANDSCAPE_68 (landscape orientation, Courier font)
• LEGAL and LEGAL_84 (legal paper, portrait orientation, Courier font)
• LASER_LABELS (Avery 5160)

Note that the *_NO forms (no left margin) that existed for the old printers are not available because the new printers always require a left margin.

Printer setup

The duplexing unit, which enables two-sided printing, has been installed. Two-sided printing can be selected via DCL by typing either

$ print/queue=sys$docuprint/setup=duplex_long

or

$ print/queue=sys$docuprint/setup=duplex_short

depending on whether you want long- or short-side binding. You may also use the duplex feature for a PCL or PostScript document.

Signature fonts

Computing Center staff has digitized some signatures into downloadable PCL fonts. Those who wish to continue using their own signatures will unfortunately have to have them digitized again into a PCL font by Xerox, as there is no way to convert the old XES fonts. The cost for this service is $135.

Need More Information?

If you need additional information about the new printers, or wish to have a signature digitized for the DocuPrint, send an email message to Rick Millhollin at rickm@oregon.uoregon.edu.