Set up UniPrint on a Mac running OSX 10.5 / 10.6
Open System Preferences by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left hand of the screen
Open Print & Fax
Click the plus (+) button to add a printer and follow instructions below:
In order to add UniPrint as a printer the Advanced icon must be visible on the toolbar. If the Advanced icon is not visible add it to the toolbar as follows:
- Point your cursor at a blank part of the toolbar
- Hold the control (marked ctrl) key and click your mouse button
- Select Customize Toolbar from the menu which appears
- Drag the Advanced icon onto the toolbar
- Click Done to complete this part
- Click the Advanced icon
- In the Type section, select Windows from the drop down list
- Leave the Device section as Another Device
- In the URL section enter in the following:
smb://<your St. Andrews account>:<your St. Andrews account password>@st-andrews/uniprint.st-andrews.ac.uk/queue
e.g. abc123:XyZ12B4s@st-andrews/uniprint.st-andrews.ac.uk/queue
N.B. The format of the smb:// string is critical, there is a colon between your account name and your account password, and an ampersand between your account password and the fully qualified name of the print server - In the Name section, enter UniPrint
- In the Location section, leave blank
- In the Print Using section, select Generic Postscript Printer from the dropdown list
- Click Add. Your printer will now be installed
