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Printing to the HP T1100 Printer from OS X
Note: these instructions were written for Macintosh OS X10.5 and above, the steps may be different for previous versions of OS X.
Installing the appropriate printer drivers
- Connect to Olin’s fileserver, fsvs01
- Open up the Go menu in the finder and select Connect to Server option
- Enter: smb://fsvs01.olin.edu
- You may be prompted for a username and password to connect
- Connect as: Registered User
- Username: first initial last name
- Password: your network password
- Select Applications as the volume that you would like to mount
- Browse through Public > Printers > HP > HP T1100 Drivers
- Mount the .dmg file in this directory and run the installer by selecting Mac OS X HP Designjet installer; follow the onscreen instructions.
- You may be prompted for your administrative password during this installation, it is safe to enter it as prompted.
- Click continue at introduction screen
- Click continue at readme screen
- Click continue at license screen, agree to terms
- Accept the defaults at the installation screen (easy install) and click continue
- After closing out any other running applications, click continue at the application warning popup screen. The installation should proceed from here
Setting up a print queue
- During the installation, a printer window will pop up, enter the following information:
- Protocol: Line Printer Daemon - LPD [This should be auto filled by default]
- Address: 10.24.8.229
- Leave the queue field blank
- Name: MHL22H01
- Location: MH Computer Lab
- Print Using: HP Designjet T1100ps 44in [this section should also auto fill]
- Click Add
- Click quit at the finish up screen
The new printer will now show up in the Printer List.