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 * On Mac-OSX Tiger: Open your "Printer Setup Utility" (normally under "/Applications/Utilities") and click on "more Printers" '''while pressing the Alt-Key'''.
 * On Mac-OSX Leopard: Open your "System Preferences", select "Print&Fax" and click on the '''[+]'''-Button.

Select and fill in the parameters like it is shown on the image and download the appropriate PPD (driver) file, which enables you to use the VPP-Parameters:
||Printer name ||Driver file ||
||ETZSPEZ-HPZ6100 ||[[attachment:ISGvppHPZ6100.ppd]] ||
||ETZSPEZ-X7760 ||[[attachment:ISGvppX7760.ppd]] ||
||STWC-LANIER ||[[attachment:ISGvppLAN5645.ppd]] ||
||ISGEE-LANIER, ETFC-LANIER ||[[attachment:ISGvppLAN124C3.ppd]] ||
||all other printers ||[[attachment:VPPA3_01.PPD]] ||




After you have downloaded the PPD file, open the dropdown box "Print Using" (as shown below) and choose "Other...":

{{attachment:tigerprint1.jpg}}

 . A file open dialogue should open where you can select the PPD file you've just downloaded.

/!\ Note: If you cannot make your printing configuration work this way, you may try to reset your printer configuration. To do that, right click on the printer list as shown in the image below and select "Reset Printing System". Attention: this will delete all your currently installed printers.

{{attachment:system_prefs_print_fax.jpg}}		 ||'''No.''' || '''Step''' || '''Picture''' ||
||1||Open "Print & Fax" Preference Pane. || ||

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Setting up the VPP printers for a Macintosh client

Contents

  1. Setting up the VPP printers for a Macintosh client
    1. Setting up the VPP printers for an ISG.EE-Managed Mac Client
    2. Setting up a printer for an unmanaged Mac Client (private laptops etc.)

Setting up the VPP printers for an ISG.EE-Managed Mac Client

/!\ This method works only on Macs which are connected at D-ITET to the ETH network.

For your convenience, all Printers are automatically available on your Mac. Just hit "Print" in any Application you wish to print from. When the Device you wish to print to doesn't appear in the Dropdown, just select Add Printer... (see Image below for an example).

addprintercool.png

You may then select the device you need from the List in the new window, and press "Add". That's it.

Setting up a printer for an unmanaged Mac Client (private laptops etc.)

There are two methods to setup the printer we provide with our services:

First Method: Install some printers with the provided PPD file (recommended for most users)

No.

Step

Picture

1

Open "Print & Fax" Preference Pane.

Second Method: Install all printers using cupsd.conf modifications (for advanced users)

This method allows you to print to D-ITET printers on your private Mac as if it were a managed client (see above).

  • /!\ To use this method, your computer must be connected to the D-ITET ETH network (e.g. public LAN socket).

Edit  /etc/cups/cupsd.conf  as user  root . Add/modify the following lines: 

    Browsing On
    BrowseProtocols cups
    BrowseAllow ipp2vpp.ee.ethz.ch
    BrowsePoll ipp2vpp.ee.ethz.ch
    BrowsePort 631

Save the  cupsd.conf  file and restart the cups service:

  • OSX Tiger:  /System/Library/StartupItems/PrintingServices/PrintingServices restart 

  • OSX Leopard:  launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd ; launchctl start org.cups.cupsd 

If you want to start printing now, go on reading the article Printing/VPPPrinting/Mac.