How to print posters using the A0 printer at the Rechenzentrum


For printing of posters up to size A0 a HP Designjet 1050/PS printer is available in the computer center (Rechenzentrum). This printer uses the Postscript language. So you must take care of some special issues. This concerns among other to documents with transparent objects. As it is not possible to process such objects within Postscript a work around is descripted below.

  1. Printer installation
  2. Documents without transparent objects
  3. Documents containing transparent objects
  4. Limitations on printing of PDF files
  5. Queue status request of RZ printers