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Add a Network Printer on a Mac computer

You can install a WIKS printer on your Mac. This simplified instruction uses the built-in general Postscript driver for this. If your school uses KTH-Print you won't need this instruction.

Instructions for adding a network printer

To be able to add network printers, you need permission. Please contact it-support@kth.se  if you do not have the permission.

  1. Start with getting the name of the printer's printing queue. Contact your local IT support or it-support@kth.se  for this.
    (In this example, we will use the printer with the queue name of lpd://print01.ug.kth.se/ABE_BYV_APOLLO)
  2. Go to System Preferences and choose “Printers and Scanners” or "Print & Scan".
  3. Click the "+ button" to add a printer.
  4. In order to be able to install a printer that uses a Windows printer server, we have to get access to that option in the Mac interface.
    Right-click (or press the CTRL key while clicking) the "Default" icon (or any other icon on the toolbar), then choose "Customize Toolbar" from the menu.
  5. Drag the "Advanced" icon to the toolbar and then click on "Done".
  6. Click the "Advanced" icon that was added to the toolbar. Choose "LPD/LPR Host or Printer" from the Type pop-up menu. In the URL field, type the printer's queue address, in this example lpd://print01.ug.kth.se/ABE_BYV_APOLLO. Under ”Name” you can write any fitting name and under ”USE” choose ”Generic Postscript Printer” and then click on "Add".
    You can choose to install manufacturer specific drivers, but then you must know the model of the printer and have the drivers for it Generally it is sufficient with the Mac Generic Postscript driver.
    Printer queue name added.
  7. In the next dialog, check the "Duplex Printing Unit" so you can print double-sided.
    Duplex Printing Unit is marked.
  8. Now the installation is done.
  9. Sometimes when you are printing for the first, you will get a popup for log in/authentication.
    You will have to authenticate with your KTH account to be able to print.
     Type in ug\username and your password, you can choose to save it in the keychain.
     We recommend that you first try and see that the authentication works before you save it, so you don't save an erroneous password.
  10. If you get a message "Hold for authentication" then you can try to press a couple of times on the round arrow to the right of the message and type in your KTH account (with ug\) again, in some scenarios the mac will send the information in the wrong way during the first time.
    If you get the same message multiple times, then you have probably entered the wrong username or password, or you don't have the rights to use that printer, if that's the case contact it-support@kth.se