Mac OS X Poster Printer Installation
Mounting the Poster Printer Shared Disk
Mounting the Poster Printer Shared Disk
- These instructions show how to mount the samba share containing the MacOSX poster printer drivers and the printer accounting software client needed to print to the poster printer.
- The instructions were written for Mac OS 10.6 but should be similar for earlier versions of Mac OS 10.x.
- Your computer must be attached to the 128.114.68, 128.114.69, or 128.114.25 campus network subnets.
- From the finder in the top menu bar select "Connect to Server" under the "Go" menu.
- In the "Server Address:" field of the "Connect to Server" dialog type: "smb://print.pmc.ucsc.edu/posterprinter".
- Click the "+" button to the right of the "Server Address:" field if you wish to add it to your favorites.
- Click the "Connect" button.
- If the login box is presented select "Guest" and click the "Connect" button.
- The posterprinter disk should mount on your desktop.
Installing the Drivers
Installing the Drivers
- Open the "posterprinter" disk mounted above.
- Open the "mac" folder in the "posterprinter" disk.
- Open the "drivers" folder in the "mac" folder.
- Double click on the .dmg file that corresponds to your version of the MacOS.
- For MacOS 10.5 and below double click on the "Mac OS X HP Designjet Install" in the window that pops up and install the software.
- For MacOS 10.6 double click on the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers.pkg in the window that pops up and install the software.
- For MacOS 10.7 and above double click on the Mac OS X HP Designjet Installer in the window that pops up and install the software.
Create a printer instance for "epsposter"
Create a printer instance for "epsposter"
- Open System Preferences in your Applications folder on the mac harddisk.
- Click on "Print & Fax"
- An "Add Printer" dialog box will pop up.
- Under the "Printers" list click on the "+" button
- In the top tab of the "Add" box click on "IP"
- In the "Protocol" menu tab select "Internet Printing Protocol - IPP"
- In the "Address:" field type: "print.pmc.ucsc.edu"
- In the "Queue:" field type: "printers/epsposter?compression=none"
- In the "Name:" field type: "epsposter"
- In the "Print Using" menu tab select: "Select Printer Software..."
- A "Printer Software" dialog box will pop up allowing you to choose the print driver.
- In search box type: "HP Designjet T610"
- This should narrow the choices to one of two print drivers, one each for the 24 in and 44 in versions
- Select the driver for "HP Designjet T610 44in - PCL3 raster"
- Click "OK"
- Finally click the "Add" button in the "Add Printer" dialog box.
- A printer titled "epsposter" should now appear in the "Print & Fax" system preferences.
- Close system preferences.