Adding a printer in OS X 10.4

Foreword Concerning Personally Owned Computers

It is possible to use your personal laptop to print to a public (lab) printer if you have a Campus Computer Account. You will be billed the normal fee for any over printing in these areas the same as if you were using a College computer. CTS will be unable to assist you if you are not able to get printing working successfully. There are many public labs you can bring your document to for printing.

Public Printers (Personally Owned Computers)

Follow the instructions provided below to setup a public printer. If you are faculty/staff using a college owned computer STOP and proceed to the "Standard 10.4 Printer Setup" below these instructions.

You will only be able to print if you are connected via wired or W@SP in an academic building, or if you are using a VPN connection.

Apple has a technical article for adding a password protected public printer here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301397

During one of the steps in the setup, you will be asked for your CCA username and password. You will likely have to enter your username as POTSDAM\username. So, for example, doe99 would enter their username as POTSDAM\doe99

Finally, if your computer is unable to find the driver for a specific model, you will need to visit the manufacturer's web page, download, and install it.

Standard 10.4 Printer Setup (Faculty/Staff Computers)

  • Open the Printer Setup Utility which is located in /Applications/Utilities. 
  • From the View menu under Columns, be sure the option to view Location is  selected. 

  printer setup 1

  • Click the Add icon in the top row. The following Printer Browser screen will appear: 

  printer setup 2

  • Click on IP Printer 
  • The printer type is Line Printer Deamon (LPD) 
  • Printing Address to: printing.potsdam.edu 
  • Queue Name will be the Three Character Building Code plus the Room Number where your printer is located. In the example above, this printer is in Satterlee Hall, Room 321. A list of public printers can be found here.
  • For the Name & Location field, duplicate what you put for the Queue field, in our example that is SAT321 and SAT321. If there is more than one printer in a room, then append a -2 to the end (example SAT321-2) and increment the number for each additional printer.
  • For the Print Using pull down menu, select the Printer Model for the printer type you have. In most cases it will be Apple or HP 
  • Next, select the printer model which is usually right on the printer itself. In your example about is it a HP LaserJet 4000 Series.  
  • Click Add 
  • The following screen may pop up asking you what options your printer has. Select the options from the pull down menus. and click Continue when complete. 

  printer setup 3

  • Optionally, if you have many printers you may click on one printer in the list and then click the icon labeled Make Default. The printer you selected will then become default printer printed to. 
  • You may now close the window and Quit the Printer Setup Utility (Print Center).