It uses essentially the same technology as the DeskJet printers, but on very large paper. We currently have three types of paper available Heavy, coated paper Light, coated paper Glossy photo paper Please do not attempt to change paper yourself. It is also possible to feed individual sheets of paper into the printer. We have not done this, yet, so we do not have instructions on how to do so. It is not to be used for printing your favorite Pink Floyd poster or photos of your dog.
Printing requires administrative access.
We intend to have a permissions-based system which controls access to the printer, but that is not in place yet. The print queues accept jobs, but the jobs do not automatically go to the printer. Instead, the job will sit in the queue until released by an administrator. In the future, faculty will be able to print without root intervention, but graduate and undergraduate researchers will need to ask the Systems Staff to release their print job. Thanks to Allison Powell, we now have a Frame Template for use with the Poster Printer.