Printing
The following instructions are for CS shared printers at 90 High Hoborn, 169 Euston Road, 66 Gower Street and Malet Place only. You must be connected to the CS network to access them (not eduroam).
CS lab machines, RDS2016 and managed Linux clients also have access to the printers in the computer labs.
The list of CS printers (and their supplies) is available at http://web4/staff/srmond/psupplies.html . Please note, this link only works when physically within a CS building and not remotely.
Quick Start
The download links on the following tabs offer PCL6, Postscript or UFR II drivers. Most printers support PCL and postscript with UFR II being aimed at Canon printers. There’s not much difference in our experience between these types of drivers and if given a choice we would choose PCL6 and ‘smart’ installers will self select the type of driver.
All these installers will try to find printers on your current network but will also allow you to enter the printer IP or hostname after performing a search. Depending upon how you are connected and your location it may not list the printer you are looking for, in which case enter the printer name in form printer.cs.ucl.ac.uk. For example , copier90hh.cs.ucl.ac.uk.
The following printers are used at these CS sites:
- Xerox and HP at 90 High Holborn
- Xerox at 66 Gower Street
- Canon at 169 Euston Road
- HP at MPEB
Download the Xerox Smart driver from https://www.support.xerox.com/en-us/product/workcentre-7800-series/downloads?platform=win10x64&language=en
OSX users can view the youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kFkvAMDmuo. It shows how to download and install the postscript driver for the workcenter 78×5. The installer will search for xerox printers and may find them but if it doesn’t use the option at about 2.5 mins to enter the name (or IP) of the printer.
Windows users can view the youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG3pTcLguYk. In this video they download the postscript driver but you can also download and install the PCL 6 driver as well. The steps with the installer are the same for both drivers.
When entering a printer name use printer.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Currently these are:
- copiergs-1.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 1st floor Gower Street
- copiergs-3.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 3rd floor Gower Street
- copiergs-4.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 4th floor Gower Street
- copiergs-5.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 5th floor Gower Street
- copiergs-b.cs.ucl.ac.uk in the basement Gower Street
- copier90hh.cs.ucl.ac.uk at 90 High Holborn
The Xerox printers support Secure print for confidential printing and we recommend that you configure this. Select the Secure Printing tab above for further details.
Download the canon driver from https://www.canon.co.uk/support/consumer_products/products/printers/laser/i-sensys-lbp663cdw.html?type=drivers&language=&os=windows%2010%20(64-bit)
The installer searches for available canon printers. If your printer is not listed enter the printer name using the form printer.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Currently these are:
- cpser1.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 1st floor Euston Road
- cpser2.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 2nd floor Euston Road
- cpser3.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 3rd floor Euston Road
- cpser4.cs.ucl.ac.uk on the 4th floor Euston Road
The Canon printers support secure print for confidential printing and we recommend that you configure this. Select the Secure Printing tab above for further details.
OSX has a simple universal driver already installed which is enabled by follow the procedure at https://support.hp.com/ph-en/document/ish_4037000-4037075-16 and at step 4 enter the printer name as described below.
Windows users can download the HP universal driver from https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-universal-print-driver-series-for-windows/503548/model/3271558 and follow the steps below:
- right click the upd-xxxx-x64-x.xx.xxxxx.exe that you downloaded and choose Run as Administrator
- at the winzip self extractor choose Unzip
- select Yes at the HP universal Printing Installer
- select Traditional Mode
- select add a printer using TCP/IP or hostname and then Next
- enter the printername in the hostname or IP address box (see printernames below) and select Next
- if prompted select use the driver that is currently installed (recommended)
- enter the name of the printer, such as cps420 in the printer name box
- enable Do not share this printer and select Next
- select Finish
Pinter names:
- cps420.cs.ucl.ac.uk (in room 4.20 MPEB)
- cps90hh1.cs.ucl.ac.uk (at 90 High Holborn)
For more advanced printing options for most operating systems download the M553 driver from https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-color-laserjet-enterprise-m553-series/7087331/model/7087335.
The HP printers support secure print for confidential printing and we recommend that you configure this. Select the Secure Printing tab above for further details.
Installing the Xerox WorkCentre printers under linux
Download and save the ppd file here: xrx7855.ppd
Then run the command in a terminal, replace printername with the name of the printer from the list below and</path/to/downloaded/xrx7855.ppd> with where the xrx7855.ppd was saved.
sudo lpadmin -p printername -P </path/to/downloaded/xrx7855.ppd> -v lpd://printername.cs.ucl.ac.uk/lp -E
Available printers are:
Printer Location ======= ========= copier90hh 90 High Holborn
cps90hh1 90 High Holborn copierefb309 Engineering Front Building room 3.09 copiergs-1 66-77 Gower St floor 1 copiergs-3 66-77 Gower St floor 3 copiergs-4 66-77 Gower St floor 4 copiergs-5 66-77 Gower St floor 5 copiergs-b 66-77 Gower St basement copiermpeb6 Malet Place Engineering Building floor 6 copier420 Malet Place Engineering Building room 4.20
Please note, you must be on the CS network (wired or wireless) and not eduroam to
connect to the printers
Secure print is a feature that allows you to associate a pin number to a printer. When you print to this printer your print job can only be released by entering the pin number you set. You can turn secure print on and off and associate it to which printers you prefer. We recomend you use it on shared and remote printers.