Printing Your Thesis

Different computers at Texas A&M University have different commands for printing a L^ATEX document. You will always begin the process with the command latex filename. This produces a .dvi file which can be transferred to any other computer for further processing. After this, you must run some sort of dvi program on your document and then use another command to print it. Some computer systems combine all of these steps into one command.

As of Fall 1998, the EE department has two printers (ipszac and hpszac) available to all EE Sun users for printing PostScript documents. To produce PostScript (.ps extension) files and then print them single sided, the following sequences of commands can be used on the Sun cluster running Solaris operating system:

dvips filename.dvi
lp -o simplex -d ipszac filename.ps

or

lp -o simplex -d hpszac filename.ps

To print documents double sided (the default) leave out the ``-o simplex'' command.

The dvips programs on the EE Sun Cluster is regularly updated. The dvips program generates a .ps file from a .dvi file which may be printed on a PostScript printer. The many options for dvips are described in Appendix [*].

If any fonts used in your documents do not exist at the required resolution (say 600 dpi), the dvips program will invoke MakeTeXPK to create this font on the fly.