How do I print on DIKUs printers from my Mac OS X laptop?

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I eventually got it to work perfectly on my Mac running 10.8.2. You can see the settings I used below. Note: IPP protocol, queue name prefixed with 'printers/'. (Apologies for the HiDPI screenshot).

(Note that, for older versions of CUPS (< 1.6.x), you can set the BrowsePoll directive to automatically add all DIKU printers. See older answers for a guide.)

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answered 28 Sep '12, 10:36

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edited 17 Sep '13, 10:39

ngws ♦♦
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Community wiki now. Anyone can improve this answer.

(17 Sep '13, 10:40) ngws ♦♦

Answer 2

Tested on Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion

On Mac you first need to add the diku printer server in two steps. Open the Terminal applicaton and execute these. You have to be an admin user (you most likely are).

cupsctl BrowseRemoteProtocols=cups
cupsctl BrowsePoll=print.diku.dk:631

You still have to add any printer individually, but all DIKU printers appear automatically on a list to select from. There are two ways to do it.

From any application when you print, from the printer selection drop down box select 'Add printer...'
In System Preferences open 'Print & Scan' and add printers by clicking the '+' icon.

Remember to check the location when adding a printer, it will not be shown again! Some printers are located far far away at a different Campus.

Minor issues.

The printers show up by model name, so if two printers are identical models, they unfortunately show up as the exact same. When you add a printer you see the Location, when printing you can not [1]
The printer labelled 's1a' and 's2a' have the same location Syd (~south wing) even though they are on different floors. But you will never see this label (printer queue name) so guess.

[1] Steve (hallelujah!) has in his infinite wisdom; chosen that you must not see the location of the printer when you select one.

Answer 3

It wont work as cups 1.6 removed support for the orignal cups protocol (IPP) for discovery. All i have is a detailed non-answer.

Apple 'bought' cups a few years ago (trademarks and the 'sole' maintainer), and now cups 1.6 removed IPP protocol support for discovery/browsing. Print jobs still use IPP. The new world order is apparently DNS-SD, which is a generic discovery protocol, seems technically sound. Just very stupid way of doing things by removing features that helps backwards compatability.

I think it's possible to manually add every printer by queue name, in the OSX gui. But then you need to figure out driver, queue name etc. It's should work, but annoying to setup. Browse around on http://print.diku.dk:631/printers/m1a for details of m1a printer.

Linux with cups 1.6 will have same problem. Maybe KoncernIT will support DNS-SD records for print.diku.dk, somehow.

References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735404 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.printing.cups.general/30495

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Of unknown reasons the above does not work on my MacBook Pro OS X 10.8 - Mountain Lion.

Can anyone confirm that the guide above also works on OSX 10.8?

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answered 24 Sep '12, 13:22

Faarkrog
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It wont work as cups 1.6 removed support for the orignal cups protocol (IPP) for discovery. All i have is a detailed non-answer. See below (max char limit).

(24 Sep '12, 14:10) frej

It will work, you just need the right settings :). See screenshot below.

(28 Sep '12, 10:37) JensR

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