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Public printers available from the majority of our hosts
  1. laser4 - HP LaserJet 4300dtn. 1200dpi, 45ppm. Duplex capability via laser4dup queue. Most appropriate for day-to-day printing of black & white documents and manuals. Has a multipurpose feed tray, capable of printing on overheads and envelopes.

  2. laser5 - HP LaserJet 4300dtn. 1200dpi, 45ppm. Duplex capability via laser5dup queue. Most appropriate for day-to-day printing of black & white documents and manuals. Has a multipurpose feed tray, capable of printing on overheads and envelopes.

  3. dw - HP Color LaserJet 5500dtn. 600dpi, 4ppm color. Duplex capable via dwdup queue. Excellent for producing sharp, reproducible color output. Especially useful for printing Power Point presentations and color plots from papers. Requires specialized transparency films, which are available for purchase.

  4. epson - Epson Stylus Pro 5500 photo-quality inkjet. 2880dpi. Capable of printing on paper with dimensions up to 329mm x 483mm (Super A3). While highly useful, it requires a small amount of training to produce good results. Excellent for specialty printing, including small draft versions of large posters, but requires specialmedia and files of adequate resolution. Please see Chris Wilkinson if you would like help with this resource.

  5. laser15 - HP LaserJet 4300dtn. 1200dpi, 45ppm. Duplex capability via laser15dup queue. Most appropriate for day-to-day printing of black & white documents and manuals. Located in 15.202A.


 Publicly-accessible tape drives attached to astro
  1. Exabyte 8505 XL 8mm - available on astro (nrst11, 7 GB native capacity; nrst19, 10GB compressed). Media cost ~$8.00/ea. These drives are also capable of reading 8200-series 8mm tapes if the proper procedure is followed.

  2. Exabyte Mammoth 8mm - available on astro (nrst4, 20 GB native capacity; nrst28, 30GB compressed). This drive is also capable of reading (but NOT writing) 8500-series and some 8200-series 8mm tapes if the proper procedure is followed. Often it is under use for system-wide backup operations.

  3. Exabyte Mammoth2 8mm -available on astro (nrst1, 60 GB native capacity; nrst25, 90GB compressed). This drive is NOT capable of reading any format other then Mammoth2 and is typically limited to being used for backup operations.

  4. Sony DDS-4 4mm DAT - available on astro (nrst10, 20 GB native; nrst18, 40GB compressed). As of this writing, media cost ~$9.00/each. Excellent for general backups, offering a low cost for the quantity of data held per tape.






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