Setting up Printers on Mac OS

Apple have changed the appearance of the Printer Setup Utility slightly in each version of Mac OS X, so these instructions may not exactly match what you see. To add a printer using Mac OS X,

• open Printer Setup Utility, from the Utilities folder
• click Add.
• In the window that appears, select IP Printing from the pull-down menu, and for Printer Type, choose HP jetdirect.
• For Printer Address, enter the hostname of the printer, which is usually ljxxx.spa.umn.edu, where xxx is the room number (eg, lj342.spa.umn.edu). Most printers should also have a label with this information.
• Select the appropriate printer model under Printer Model. Most of the time, the correct printer model should be detected automatically. In some cases, eg with the Xerox Phaser printers, you may need to install a PPD file for all features to work (we need to add more info on this).
• Click Add.

Please refer to separate instructions for printing to color Toshiba copiers

Mac OS Classic is no longer supported within the department, though it should be possible to configure IP printing using the same basic settings as above.