Article 13278 of cmu.cs.general: Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu cmu.cs.general:13278 Newsgroups: cmu.cs.general Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!mkant From: mkant+@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU (Mark Kantrowitz) Subject: Saving Paper Message-ID: Originator: mkant@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 11:58:13 -0400 Lines: 105 This post contains the tips on saving paper that appear in the save-paper man pages. Text and postscript versions appear in /usr/misc/.pstools/doc/save-paper.{doc,ps}. --mark SAVE A TREE! Iron City and Coal Cavern each consume approximately 5,000 sheets of paper a day. You too can help save your favorite tree by using less paper (and save SCS a big bundle of green paper at the same time). Here's how: - No Job Header: lpr -h Prints a file without the job header pages. - Selecting pages M-N of a postscript or dvi file: psrev -s M-N psselect -pM-N dvips -p FIRSTPAGE -n NUMPAGES Don't print out all 200 pages of your thesis to correct a typo on page 53. - Printing postscript n-to-a-page: multi -h [for help] quarter half Quarter and half are filters that take postscript as input and produce postscript as output. Quarter scales the input by a factor of .25 and puts 4 input pages onto 1 output page, in portrait format. Half does the analogous thing, in landscape format. Quarter, in particular, is real useful for slides. - Postscript previewing (good for scribe output, sometimes pslatex?): /usr/misc/.gnu-others/bin/gs /usr/misc/.gnu-others/bin/gv /usr/misc/.preview/bin/preview /usr/misc/.X11tra/bin/postps gs is the GhostScript PostScript clone, and preview is the Scribe Systems PostScript previewer. gv is based on gs, but is slightly easier to use for previewing documents. gs and gv are the preferred tools. - DVI Previewing (good for Tex): /usr/misc/.tex/bin/xdvi usage: pslatex paper.tex /usr/misc/.tex/bin/xdvi -S 20 paper.dvi & - DVI Previewer: /usr/misc/.texx2/bin/texx2 - Removing Jobs from Printer Queues (except for Iron, Coal & other lps40's ...): lpq [lpq to find job number] lprm job-number For large jobs on Iron and Coal, call the CS Operator (x2607) to have them remove it. - Check if the printer is up and running with lpq before printing. - Printing text files in 2-column landscape mode: enscript -2r a2ps Note that you can print several files using one enscript command, thereby avoiding the extra job header sheets. - Use smaller fonts with enscript: enscript -fCourier8 - Use double-sided printers: lpr -Pstone lpr -Psand lpr -Pslate - Pretty print programs in 2-column landscape mode: psyapp foo.{c,lisp,...} - Spoof X11 driver for plots and drawings: spoof -d X11 - Send email instead of paper memos. - Use FrameMaker, the WYSIWYG document preparation system. /usr/misc/.frame/bin/maker 22-Sep-90 11:47 Marco.Zagha Saving Paper From: Marco.Zagha@ENQUIRER.SCANDAL.CS.CMU.EDU After seeing recent posts by Thomas Sheffler and Dave Touretzky that include ways of saving paper, I think it would be a good idea to collect a useful set of paper-saving commands in a quick reference file. Here are the things I know about. Anybody have others (or corrections to the items below)? No Job Header: lpr -h Selecting pages M-N of a postscript file: psrev -s M-N Printing postscript n-to-a-page: /afs/cs/project/cmt/bin/multi -h [for help] Postscript previewing (good for scribe output, sometimes pslatex?): /usr/misc/.preview/bin/preview TeX Previewer: /usr/misc/.texx2/bin/texx2 Removing Jobs from Printer Queues (except for Iron, ...): lpq [lpq to find job number] lprm job-number Printing text files in 2-column landscape mode: enscript -2r Pretty print programs in 2-column landscape mode: psyapp foo.{c,lisp,...} Spoof X11 driver for plots and drawings: spoof -d X11 == Marco 26-Sep-90 15:07 Mark.Leone@F.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Re: Saving paper For that matter, why aren't high-volume printers able to (optionally) print double-sided output, like the fancier photocopiers? Obviously the extra paper-handling machinery is more expensive (and printing time might be somewhat longer), but I think the long-term savings would be significant. 26-Sep-90 17:27 Mark.Kantrowitz Re: Saving paper From: Mark.Kantrowitz@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU We're consuming 6 boxes (12 reams each, 500 sheets per ream) every week in Iron City. This works out to approximately 1.8 million sheets per year. If we assume a cost of 1/2 cent per sheet (and that all the paper consumed in Iron City is used by the LPS40), double sided printing would save $4500 per year. I don't know detailed prices or maintenance costs for 2-sided printers, but it strikes me that the payback period would exceed the lifetime of the machine. Perhaps someone from facilities could give us actual figures? --mark 27-Sep-90 12:11 Rudy.Nedved printers and paper From: Rudy.Nedved@RUDY.FAC.CS.CMU.EDU Re: double sided printers ------------------------- We started out with 3 Xerox dovers and they used PRESS file format. We had a couple of IMAGENS using Impress format. Other formats were coming out from various printer manufacturers. Overall, this was chaos we did not want to get into. The result was PostScript language came out after a while and seem to be a commercially viable product. We bought many LaserWriters and learned alot. Alas, the Dovers were still being used extensively because of the their high speed. The LaserWriters are 8 page per minute (PPM) printers. We waited and waited and hoped that someone would come out with a high speed printer. DEC came out with the LPS-40 which is a 40PPM machine. After a while we got a second one since no other printer maker seemed to make a PostScript machine of high speed and good quality. Some point after this we got rid of our last ailing Dover. At this point, I believe for half the speed you can get a double sided printer. Double sided printing has the paper go thru twice. This means the paper is "dirty" with toner the second time and can easily add smudges to the paper. Can we trade print quality and speed for slower speed, higher maintainance, lower qualtiy and less paper? 27-Sep-90 16:30 Gene.Rollins dvi previewing From: Gene.Rollins@VISTA.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU Another previewing option for TeX users is: /usr/misc/.tex/bin/xdvi usage: pslatex paper.tex /usr/misc/.tex/bin/xdvi -S 20 paper.dvi& I don't know the pluses and minuses of the various previewing options. But, I find that xdvi is fairly accurate. I haven't used anything else. ....gene