Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

CHAPTER 5 CONNECTING PERIPHERALS TO YOUR MAC 103
Figure 5-4. After selecting the printer we want to add, Leopard automatically attempts to determine
the name, location, and appropriate print driver.
NOTE You may notice that the Location field is blank; this is because the printer is connected
using Bonjour (Apple’s implementation of Zeroconf). Bonjour is a special networking technology
that allows systems on a network to identify themselves and the services they offer in a
flexible way without a central name server. Since this allows the location to be dynamic, it is
not listed.
If the print driver is not found automatically, then you will need to select an appropriate
driver manually for the printer. To do this, click the Print Using drop-down menu, and there you
should first try “Select a driver to use,” which will provide a list of all the currently available
print drivers. If your driver isn’t listed but you have it on your system, you can select Other,
which will open a standard Open dialog box for you to locate and open the appropriate driver.
When your printer is selected and set up with the proper driver, click the Add button, and
your printer will be ready to use (Figure 5-5).
NOTE If you are mostly but not quite sure you have everything set up correctly, don’t panic.
Try it. If something is wrong, you can adjust it later, or at worst you can remove it and start over
again.
Ninety-nine percent of the time adding a printer is quite easy. But what about the other
times—the times when your printer just doesn’t get automatically recognized?
NOTE There tends to be a few ways to think about network printers. Some printers broadcast
their presence (such as Bonjour printers), and they usually just show up in the default options
of the Printer Browser window. Other printers, like those that use Windows and AppleTalk, are
browsable; that is, you can navigate around the network to find available printers in the various
Windows workgroups or AppleTalk zones. Finally, there are other types of network printers,
and basically, you have to know where they are located on the network, and usually some more
information about them, to connect to them.