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<title>Shell script to delete all printers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>The following shell script will delete all printers.Make sure the file is executable after you create it (chmod ugo+x /path/to/delPrinters.sh).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;#!/bin/shfor printer in `lpstat -p | awk '{print &amp;#36;2}'`doecho Deleting &amp;#36;printerlpadmin -x &amp;#36;printerdone&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
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<title>Installing Epson Drivers in 10.7</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>Epson requires the user to download drivers for their printers from Apple. Often, Apple Software Update will report the drivers are not available at this time and send the user to Epson. Finding current drivers is difficult and registering the printer to the newly installed drivers requires one simple step...not covered in any instructions.&lt;br /&gt;
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First, the user must be have an admin account. Download the drivers from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1398 and open the install package. Follow the instructions to install the drivers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Second, shut down the system and plug the printer in via USB. &lt;br /&gt;
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Third, restart and log into an admin account.&lt;br /&gt;
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Forth, (the simple, overlooked step) DISCONNECT FROM INTERNET&lt;br /&gt;
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Fifth, If your system offers a dialog to add your printer, follow the instructions. If not, then open System Preferences/Printers &amp;amp; Scanners. Click on the + to add your printer. &lt;br /&gt;
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OSX, unconnected from the Internet, should find the drivers you installed in the first step. &lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Create default printer presets for multiple users </title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I was tasked with setting up a company's new printers and had to struggle with creating a default set presets that also used a PIN number login for accounting. This needed to be pushed out to the current user base, in real time, and without interrupting anyone's ability to print. Here's how I did it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tools:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;CUPS server web interface to set the printer defaults&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;ARD to install the drivers&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;&lt;tt&gt; lpadmin &lt;/tt&gt; to add the printer (We're using LPD on a Windows 2008 R2 server)&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;ARD to copy the cups PPDs&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Create the default settings:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Terminal, run this command: &lt;tt&gt;sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes&lt;/tt&gt; &lt;br /&gt;  In a web browser, go to: http://localhost:631/admin&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Install the drivers (.pkg files via ARD)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Add the printer using &lt;tt&gt; lpadmin&lt;/tt&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;tt&gt; lpadmin -p SweetNewPrinter-7535-clr -L &amp;quot;Department&amp;quot; -E -v lpd://WindowsServer/SweetNewPrinter-7535-clr -P /Library/Printers ...&lt;/tt&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Maintenance Utility for HP designjet 130nr </title>
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<description>Apple broke Hewlett-Packard maintenance utility under Snow Leopard for Designjet 130nr and 130 (and maybe for 30 and 100 series too).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Under Snow Leopard there's no way for HP130nr and HP130 user to access the maintenance utility and therefore perform color calibration, print checks and so on. HP says they have no plan to give people the right utility and suggest us to use the front control panel on the printer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luckily there's a workaround to gain access to the maintenance web page: download and install &lt;em&gt;System Maintenance Utility for Designjet 111 H.06.00 Utility&lt;/em&gt; for OS X 10.6 from the HP suport site.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After installation, launching System Maintenance Utility and choosing your printer will allow you to access it via the web interface all the good things to maintain your Deskjet printer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one. It may take a bit of hunting to find the above utility on the HP site. I think  ...</description>
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<title>Print from page 2 onwards</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>Sometimes you want to print avoiding some cover page. Here a simple way to do it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When sending something to the printer the OS X Print dialog provides many useful options. One of them is selecting the range of pages to be printed. I often find myself wanting to use that to avoid printing a (few) useless coversheet(s). &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;However, one is seemingly forced to fill in both a starting and ending range. If you don't know how many pages the document has that can be annoying (and you won't be able to see it once you've selected the option to print a range!). One solution, which I used for a few years, is to enter a very large number, such as 999, in the box. This works.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But a simpler solution is to leave that end field blank. Actually, if you enter the starting page, hit TAB then DELETE, then ENTER you are all set and have sent your job quickly to the printer from your starting page to the end of the document.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; Simple enough, and obviou ...</description>
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<title>10.7: Use Dell 5130cdn laser printer</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I own a Dell Color Laser printer model 5130cdn and it has performed very well under Mac OS X 10.6 or lower. However, under Lion the printer went into a paused state after every job; resuming the printer triggered a duplicate job and a further pause. The only workaround was to delete the job before resuming the printer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dell issued a new driver as of 11/1/2011, in theory Lion compatible. However, it did not fix the problem on my system if the printer was added from the 'Print' pane of System Preferences, choosing from the 'Default' tab. A Dell technical analyst walked me through a fix and it may be useful to others.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It will be important to know the IP address of the printer, particularly if you have more than one networked printer. There are several ways to get the address, here is one: open the Terminal.app from Applications/Utilities, type &lt;tt&gt;arp -a&lt;/tt&gt;, and press Return. You will see a list, and it should include an item similar to:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;tt&gt;dell9cf14a.loc ...&lt;/tt&gt;</description>
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<title>Opening a printer proxy from the Print dialog</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>I've had a number of PDF documents to print all at once with standard printer settings. I know that I can drag and drop them on to the printer proxy which then prints them out on the printer without opening the Print dialog each time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As I usually don't have the printer proxies in my dock or on my Desktop and rarely in the Recent Applications Dock item, I typically opened and printed at least one of the PDF documents from Preview or Acrobat Reader to open the desired printer proxy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It turned out that it is actually not necessary to print a document.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you you already have opened an arbitrary application which supports printing and has an open document (e.g. a web browser) open the Print dialog there.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From within the print dialog hold down the Command and Option keys while selecting your desired printer from the popup button. The printer proxy of the selected printer opens immediately.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know if this behavior is supported for Syste ...</description>
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<title>Print after Shutdown without Logging in</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>Often I send a document to the print queue before I have access or am connected to a printer, so I can close it and be done with it. However, sometimes I forget to print and then shutdown without printing. This is quite obviously a pain as you have to start up again, log back in, and open the print queue.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And so it would turn out Mac OS X (10.6) has got our backs here. If you shutdown your computer with an item still in the print queue, and then connect your printer (I've only tried this via USB so wireless may or may not work), then startup your computer again, at the login screen, before even logging in or doing anything, your document will print automatically.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I think I've done this with networked printers as well, maybe ethernet only. As long the printer becomes available before the queue times out, things will behave normally.]
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<title>10.7: MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 not printing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>The MacPorts CUPS-PDF 2.5.1 port would not produce a printer, the 'backend' part. In Terminal, I found the file &lt;em&gt;/usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf&lt;/em&gt; is set up as a symlink (root:wheel) to file &lt;/em&gt;/opt/local/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf&lt;/em&gt; (my_user-id:staff).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I  finally did as follows:&lt;ul&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Renamed the symlink file with a '_x' suffix.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Copied the actual file &lt;em&gt;/opt/local/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf&lt;/em&gt; over to the folder &lt;em&gt;/usr/libexec/cups/backend/&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Typed in &lt;tt&gt;sudo chown root:wheel /usr/libexec/cups/backend/cups-pdf&lt;/tt&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;And now, MacPorts CUPS-PDF produces PDFs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one. It's strange that the symlink should break like that. I suppose it's a permissions issue.]
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<title>10.7: Open print jobs</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>In older versions of OS X, you could use Quick Look to view print jobs in a queue. In Lion, you can now not only view them but also open them -- this is great if you have a print job which did not print for some reason; you can open it in Preview (or other programs) and then save it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; A handy new feature. The 'Open in Preview' option is a button in the upper right-hand part of the Quick Look window.]
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<title>10.6: Set Printer Presets from the Terminal</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>If you want to set the printer preset from the terminal in 10.6 (or from an AppleScript via a 'do shell script' command), it's different than how it's done in previous versions of OS X.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Assuming you have a printer called 'Copy Room Printer' and a preset called 'double-sided, stapled,' you would run the following two commands:&lt;div style=&quot;margin-left: 20px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; padding: 5px; border:1px solid; width:520px; height:90px; overflow:scroll;white-space:nowrap;resize:both&quot;&gt;&lt;pre&gt;defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPref 'double-sided, stapled'defaults write com.apple.print.custompresets.forprinter.Copy_Room_Printer com.apple.print.lastPresetPrefType 3&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Just set the parameters to match your own needs.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one. If this works in Lion or you find an equivalent, please post it in the comments.]
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<title>Identify the print jobs in the queue</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>If you double-click a print job in a printer's queue, it will open a Quick Look window showing the printing preview of that job. Especially useful when the file names don't have descriptive titles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I tested this, and it works as described. Simple, fun, and I would not have guessed to try this.]
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<title>Accessing advanced printer features when batch printing</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>I have several hundred PDF documents that I need to print. The documents are multi-page, and our printer can staple. However, if I try and batch print by dragging the PDFs onto a desktop alias of the print queue, I have no access to the advanced printer dialogs. If I open all the PDFs in Preview, I can get to the staple setting, but I have to visit the printer dialog box for each and every PDF.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I posted this problem on the Apple Support Community, and received the following tip from user Pahu. It works great with Snow Leopard, and I suspect earlier versions of OS X. Pahu writes: Desktop printers don't give you the ability to modify printer setting so you will need to set the option in the PPD.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Using the &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:631&quot;&gt;CUPS printer page (127.0.0.1:631)&lt;/a&gt; you could modify this printer so that stapling is permanently enabled. From the CUPS page select the printer and then change the Administration drop menu to Set Default Options. Then select the Ge ...</description>
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<title>Print through a Buffalo Link Station</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>This is a hopefully simple process for getting a mac to print through a Buffalo Link Station storage unit, firmware version 1.37. I'm offering this here because it's taken me over two hours and many different tries with different sets of instructions I found searching the web.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is the result of what I learned:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First go into &lt;em&gt;System Preferences &amp;raquo; Print &amp; Fax&lt;/em&gt; and click the '+' to add a new printer. Once this opens, select the Windows tab. Using the panels in that tab, navigate to your Link Station print server, it should show up as an 'lp' printer in the far right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Name your printer, add its correct drivers and finish.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before this worked for me I did install &lt;a href=&quot;http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php&quot;&gt;Gutenprint 5.2.6&lt;/a&gt;; I'm not sure if that had anything to do with making this work. This may be one of many solutions, and it may or may not work in all cases; there are a lot of variables involved.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko ad ...&lt;/b&gt;</description>
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<title>Reset existing printers to use with Airport</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description>If you have a USB printer that is already set up on your Mac, and try to use it as an Airport wireless printer, you may find that it doesn't work. The printer may show up in 'Printers' in the Airport Utility, but it just won't print. The solution is simple.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Go to the System Preferences &amp;raquo; Print &amp; Fax preference pane, and click on the printer in question. On the right, you'll see that the 'Location' is your machine name. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thats's the problem. The printer is no longer connected to your Mac, so the printer can't be found. Unfortunately, there's no way to reset the location of the printer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Delete the printer, then click the '+' underneath the printer list to re-add it. When you click the 'Default' tab, you will now see your printer name, and 'Kind' will say 'Bonjour' -- in other words, it's now recognized as a network printer, instead of being directly attached. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Click on the printer in the list, and the information below will fill in, including ...</description>
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<title>Use VipRiser as CUPS-PDF replacement</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Printers</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://onflapp.wordpress.com/vipriser/&quot;&gt;The VipRiser&lt;/a&gt; has the same basic functionality as the CUPS-PDF (described in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007082812233971&quot;&gt;earlier hint&lt;/a&gt;) printing package has, but it is more user friendly and easier to install. You can download the installer &lt;a href=&quot;http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7614970/VipRiser-0.3.zip&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Once installed, there's both an application (named VipRiser) and a print driver. You need to create the virtual printer in &lt;em&gt;System Preferences &amp;raquo; Print &amp; Fax&lt;/em&gt; before using it the first time. Just hit the plus sign and add it. The installer walks you through this. The new printer is named 'Print to VipRiser' and once installed, you just select it like any other printer. The VipRiser application has to be running or the virtual printer will be paused, so you may want to put the application in your Login items.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The VipRiser has some fancy features such as sync with  ...</description>
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<title>HP all in one now can scan</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Printers</dc:subject>
<description>I was having problems with my HP PSC 2110 all-in-one printer and in the process of troubleshooting was tinkering with the System Preferences for it. I just randomly clicked on the Scan button and the clicked Open Scanner. Up popped a scan window with 'Scanner is warming up.' Then it showed a preview window and a Scan button. I was completely blown away. I have been trying to get this scanner to work with Leopard and Snow Leopard for years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This was after applying the most recent &lt;a href=&quot;http://support.apple.com/kb/dl907&quot;&gt;HP Printer Drivers v.2.4.1 for Mac OS X v10.6&lt;/a&gt; update, so that is likely the fix.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one. It's nice to see the functionality returned to multi-function printers, even if it takes quite a while to happen. Remember to try the latest driver updates when they come out.]
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<title>10.6: Faxing with HP Color LaserJet 2840</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;If you use the HP Color LaserJet 2840 All-In-One printer and are unable to Fax through it in Snow Leopard, here is a possible solution.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Faxing used to work fine with this device in 10.5 (Leopard), but the CUPS drivers built in to Snow Leopard for it don't support faxing correctly. So the working 10.5 drivers from HP are the place to begin.&lt;ul&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Install &lt;a href=&quot;http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&amp;cc=us&amp;prodTypeId=18972&amp;prodSeriesId=445194&amp;prodNameId=445197&amp;swEnvOID=219&amp;swLang=8&amp;mode=2&amp;taskId=135&amp;swItem=ly-58934-1&quot;&gt;the 10.5 drivers&lt;/a&gt; for this printer available from HP.&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Configure your printer (I used an ethernet connection).&lt;/li&gt;	&lt;li&gt;Edit &lt;em&gt;/etc/cups/printers.conf&lt;/em&gt; in your favorite text editor and change the device uri to:&lt;br&gt;	 ...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
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<title>10.6: Enable dot matrix printing in Snow Leopard</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100523211233357</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Printers</dc:subject>
<description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.macosxhints.com/images/106only.png&quot; alt=&quot;Snow Leopard only hint&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; style=&quot;margin-right: 10px&quot;&gt;We are printing to Dot Matrix printers on Macs with Snow Leopard in our office, and the method used to make them work varies with the printer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With an OKI Microline 1190 we connected it directly using a normal USB-2 cable and it works perfectly. Do not use a USB hub, or printing may be unreliable. Choose the 'Oki 24-Pin Series' printer driver in the Print &amp; Fax &amp;raquo; Add Printer Preference panel and it will work. [&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; This driver appears to be installed by default in Snow Leopard.]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With an Epson LQ680 Pro we connectted it using a USB to IEEE 1284 parallel printer adapter and selected the printer driver 'Epson LQ680'. Again, use a direct cable connection with no hubs. [&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; This driver did not appear in my Add Printer list, but an equivalent Gutenprint driver should be installed on demand when you connect the ...</description>
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<title>Customize printing from any application</title>
<link>http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100518054137486</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 07:30:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<dc:subject>Printers</dc:subject>
<description>I've occasionally found that it's not possible to customize printing (e.g. double-sided, two pages per sheet, etc.) in some applications (Eudora, for one). The extra options simply aren't available in the Print dialog box.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I discovered a relatively simple solution to this problem: Just open any file with an application that allows such customization (Word, Acrobat Pro, etc.), customize the print settings as desired, and then cancel printing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now you can go back to the troublesome application and choose Last Used Settings from the Presets pop-up menu, and the system will use the more-complete settings from the other application.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[&lt;b&gt;crarko adds:&lt;/b&gt; I haven't tested this one, as most of the apps I use have the full print dialog available.]
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