Printing on Kombajn (and Chrlic) is the cheapest, you should prefer it over Elinor (or other color printers) for longer documents.
The default is Print Quality = Normal Grayscale, but you can change it to color when printing from a computer in Properties/Advanced.
The default is Media Soruce = Printer default, but you can change it to Manual feeder in Properties/Advanced. You should then open the manual feeder on the left side before printing, put there your paper and confirm the paper size dialog. Don't forget to close the feeder once your printing is done.
The default should be double-sided (long-side binding), but you can change it (in Okular, it is in the standard print Options).
In case of problems with PDF printing, try another PDF viewer. Okular should be OK.
Printers are not available on eduroam (except for kombajn via print@ufal.mff.cuni.cz). You need to connect to MS-UFAL network to be able to use network printers at UFAL.
Kombajn can be used as a copy machine, scanner and it has even an integrated OCR software.
After you initialize your account at kombajn you can use
mobile print application. You can login using your
ufal mail address as
username. The
password is identical as your UFAL
linux desktop password. When logged in you can see your print jobs and upload new documents for printing.
Some(all?) computers support also the CUPS web interface
http://127.0.0.1:631/jobs/, where you can manage your jobs and printers (sometimes I use it for cancelling jobs, which are not possible to cancel via the Ubuntu interface).
Printer names with “_2s” suffix default to two-sided printing. TODO: this was true in 2014, what about 2025?
You can also use command-line printing lpr -P <printer> <file>, e.g. lpr -P chrlic_2s article.pdf.
For two sided printing use -o sides=two-sided-long-edge or sides=two-short-long-edge example: lpr -P kombajn -o sides=two-sided-long-edge <file>
You can check status of your print job with lpq -P <printer>.
For printing A3 at kombajn, Ondřej Bojar suggests lp -d “kombajn” -o media=a3 -o fit-to-page file.pdf
For printing posters (usually A0, but conferences differ in whether landscape or portrait), we suggest
X-copy (go directly to the underground DTP studio) or
CopyGeneral (beware: it has moved from “Na Bělidle” to a new address “Radlická 12”). They are close to each other and easily reachable from Malá Strana. They can usually print a poster in about 30 minutes.
You can also use
Reprostředisko MFF UK for printing up to A1 format, including various special printing services (
see below for details – in Czech only)