When using dvips, if you have a problem with the way your paper prints, it may be trying to set the default page type to "A4", the page type should be set to "letter".
This can be done one of two ways:
run "texconfig" on your office linux pc to change the default to letter (go into dvips config/global settings and select LETTER)
or
Run dvips with the
"-t letter" command line parameter to make it print correctly.
For example: dvips
test.dvi -o test.ps -t letter
The default has already been changed to "letter" on the 4 clients in 306 that are being used for logins.
Furthermore, if you
get the error "lpr: lp: unknown printer", then dvips is trying to automatically
print your file to the default printer "lp". Run dvips with the -o
option and it will convert your dvi to ps without printing it.