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-Using the Printer Card
+===== Using the Printer Card =====
-Printing to a McGill uPrint printer with the ACELab printer card can only be done from the command line.
-Edit
+Printing to a McGill uPrint printer with the ACELab printer card can be done both from **command line** and from **GUI**.
-List Printers
-First check to see if the printers are available on your machine:
+==== List Printers ====
+First check to see all available uPrints on your machine:
+<code>
 me@ace-ws-00:~$ lpstat -p
-Output example:
+</code>
+Output example will be vary on Ubuntu 16 and Ubuntu 18
+<code>
 printer HP-color-laserjet is idle.  enabled since Thu 26 Jan 2017 02:32:24 PM EST
 printer McGill_Color is idle.  enabled since Thu 16 Feb 2017 02:43:59 PM EST
 printer mcgill_mono is idle.  enabled since Thu 16 Feb 2017 02:44:14 PM EST
 printer mcgill_mono_beta is idle.  enabled since Thu 16 Feb 2017 02:44:00 PM EST
+</code>
 You can see here a local printer and the McGill uPrint printers.
-Edit
+==== How to print ====
-Printing
+=== Available uPrint cards ===
+* 2 UPrint cards in NW (amni16 in NW145 and amni22 in NW136)
+* 1 uPrint card in 527 (amni17)
+=== Print out from command line ===
 To print a file named myfile.txt to mcgill_mono using the amni16 “Evans Lab Students” account:
+<code>
 me@ace-ws-00:~$ lp -U amni16 -d mcgill_mono myfile.txt
 request id is mcgill_mono-117 (1 file(s))
+</code>
 Then, find the amni16 uPrint card and release the job at the printer.
+=== Print out from GUI ===
+* //Create a directory and file under your home directory//
+<code>
+mkdir -p ~/.cups/
+touch ~/.cups/client.conf
+</code>
+* //Add Lab uPrint card name (amni16 e.g.) into client.conf file//
+<code>
+echo 'USER amni16'>> ~/.cups/client.conf
+</code>
+* //Set a default printer in ~/.cups/lpoptions//
+<code>
+lpoptions -d mcgill_mono
+</code>
+note: you can add all available printers into ~/.cups/lpoptions by editing the file
+<code>
+XXX@ace-ws-XX:~$ cat .cups/lpoptions
+McGill_Color
+mcgill_mono
+mcgill_mono_beta
+</code>
+* //All set and its ready to print out via GUI//