Go to the U of M home page
School of Physics & Astronomy
School of Physics and Astronomy Wiki

User Tools


computing:department:print:mac

This is an old revision of the document!


Setting up Printers on Mac OS

<note warning> 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. </note>

To add a Physics network printer to 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.
    • Xerox PPD files can be downloaded from http://www.office.xerox.com/
  • Click Add.

<note> Please refer to separate instructions for printing to Xerox copiers or printing to Toshiba copiers </note>

computing/department/print/mac.1378246015.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/09/03 17:06 by allan