You can print to any of the managed printers on campus from your own computer, either laptop or desktop.
The majority of the managed printer we have installed, including all of the ones in the Clusters and Dimond Libraries are Dell Color Laser 5130cdn printers. As such, you should use this driver for the Clusters queue.
If you regularly print to a managed printer that is not a Dell 5130cdn and you discover issues with your printouts, you may wish to use a driver for that model printer instead, but try the Dell 5130cdn driver first.
On Mac OS X 10.5 and newer, open System Preferences and select the Print & Fax preference pane. Click the '+' button at the bottom of the list to start adding a new printer.
On earlier versions of Mac OS X, open the Printer Setup Utility from the /Applications/Utilities folder. Click on the Add Printer button to start adding a new printer.
Your new print queue is ready for your use, and it should be set automatically as your new default printer.
The Clusters queue will allow you to print either black-and-white or color print outs. By default, the queue is set to print in color! Note that color printing costs more (50 cents versus 10 cents) so you will probably want to switch to black printing for most jobs.
When you are ready to print a document, select the Print command. Then, make sure the Printer is set to the Clusters queue is selected. To see all of the printing options, click the button with a down arrow 'V' button next to the print name.
To access the color versus black settings, select the Print Features item from the pop-up menu of printing settings. The Output Color selection can be changed to either Color or Black.
To quickly change this setting in the future, we recommend that you use the Presets feature of the Mac OS X printing dialog to save presets. For example, set the Output Color to Black and then click the Presets pop-up menu and choose Save As... to save a black and white preset. You can create as many presets for different combinations of printing settings as you like. Then, simply use the Presets selections in the future to switch configurations. Apple has a video tutorial on how to create Presets.