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40 Printing from OS X Computers OS X Lion lets you quickly connect and share a local printer as well as use remote printers on the network. Mac computers can share printing resources with Windows computers with relative ease, making it much easier to ensure that printers can be accessed by multiple platforms. In this chapter you’ll learn how to configure your Mac to print to a locally connected printer. Then you’ll learn how to share the printer with Windows and other network users. Finally, you’ll learn how to set up your Mac to connect to network printers using a variety of common printer protocols as well as how to optimize network printers. Connecting to a USB Printer To print to a printer, first make sure it’s connected to your computer, and then add it to your list of available printers. For most USB printers, the printer is added to the list automatically when you connect it. Add a USB printer to your list of printers: 1. Follow the instructions that came with the printer to set it up and connect it to your computer. Mac OS X is compatible with most common printers. If you need software for a printer, a dialog appears while you’re setting up the printer that offers to download and install the software for you. 2. Open a document to print and choose File > Print. 3. Open the Printer pop-up menu and choose your printer. 6
Share your printer with Windows users using SMB: You can share your USB printer with networked Windows users over the same SMB/ CIFS protocol you use to share files. 1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Sharing. 2. Select the Printer Sharing checkbox. 3. Select the printer you want to share. 4. Select the File Sharing checkbox. 5. If you don’t want to share a folder, select it in the Shared Folders list, and then press the Delete (-) button below the list. You can delete all the folders if you only want to share your printer. 6. Click Options. 7. Select “Share files and folders using SMB.” 8. Select the name of the account that will share the printer, and then enter the password for that account. 9. Click the Done button and close the Sharing window. You’ve shared your local printer with Windows users. To print to your shared printer using SMB/CIFS, a user must be logged in to an administrator account on a Windows computer, and then configure an SMB/CIFS network printer to use the PostScript printer driver, even if the printer isn’t a PostScript printer. Your Mac will translate the PostScript data into data that’s compatible with the printer. The Windows user should see the Windows documentation for information about adding a network printer. Printing to a Network Printer In addition to connecting to local printers, OS X can easily connect to a variety of popular network printers. Many network printers offer built-in support for Bonjour (the OS X auto network discovery feature), enabling you to automatically add a network printer by following the same steps you used to add a local printer in the previous section. To add a network printer to your list of printers, you need to know its IP address or DNS name. You can also enter other helpful information about the printer, such as its location and queue name. In this section you’ll first learn how to connect to a shared network printer. Then you’ll learn how to work with PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files to get the most out of shared network printer features. 41
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