We are pleased to announce that laser printers in Room RR-103 and OLB-134 have been replaced by 6 new HP LaserJet 8000N black and white printers and 2 new HP Color LaserJet 5M colour printers. The new printers in Room RR-103 are located at the same location as the old printers while the new printers in Room OLB-134 are placed along the separation wall between Room OLB-134 and Room OLB-135.

The LaserJet 8000N printer comes with a 24-page-per-minute printing engine for supporting high speed printing. The 4 input trays of the printer can provide a total capacity of 3000 sheets of A4-size papers for high volume printing. It supports HP PCL 5e, HP PCL6 and Postscript Level 2 emulation.

The Color LaserJet 5M printer can print 10 pages of black and white documents per minute and 2 to 3 pages of color documents per minute. The paper tray of the printer has a capacity of 250 sheets of A4-size papers.

To print to these printers from your application programs, all you need to do is to select one of the printers from the following list of printer names before printing:

HP LaserJet 8000 (1) in RR103
HP LaserJet 8000 (2) in RR103
HP LaserJet 8000 (3) in RR103
HP Color LaserJet in RR103
HP LaserJet 8000 (1) in OLB134
HP LaserJet 8000 (2) in OLB134
HP LaserJet 8000 (3) in OLB134
HP Color LaserJet in OLB134

The status of the print jobs can be checked at the web page http://web.hku.hk/LPRng while the user's printing budget can be enquired at the web page http://web.hku.hk/prtquota.html.

Print Queue Display Stations are placed near the printers in Room RR-103 and Room OLB-134 so that the user can view the queues of print jobs sent to each printer. The following is a display of the print queue status.  It shows that there are 3 print jobs in the print queue of the printer named "HP LaserJet 8000 (1) in RR103". Notice that if there are print jobs shown in red, this signifies that there are some problems with those print jobs. Users should report them to the operations staff in the computer room (Room RR-108) so that the operations staff can remove the problematic print jobs from the print queue.

A user can also double-click on the program icon "Print Job Management" in the "Computer Centre Software" program group on a PC in the PC Laboratories to view or delete his own print jobs. The user is required to type in his HKUSUA username and password as shown in the following screen before performing the required actions.

For more details, please contact the undersigned.

Vitus Lam
Tel: 2859 2484
E-mail: lsw@cc.hku.hk