Installing Macintosh Printers using the Command Line
Note - this is specific to the HP Color LaserJet M651 printers in the Department of Biostatistics.
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here for information on installing these printers on Linux computers.
The process consists of 3 steps for each printer to be installed.
- set default path to be the location where the printer definition files are stored
- copy the appropriate printer definition file from this wiki to the storage location
- use the
lpadmin
command to create the printer
For a particular printer, you can skip steps 1 and 2 if you have already installed another printer of the same type.
biostatcolor1 - HP Color LaserJet M651 (general purpose printer)
cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
sudo curl -O https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/MacPrintersCommandLine/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz
sudo lpadmin -p biostatcolor1 -L "biostatistics" -D "biostatcolor1 HP Color LaserJet M651" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz -v socket://biostatcolor1.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu:9100/ -E
biostatcolor2 - HP Color LaserJet M651 (general purpose printer)
cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
sudo curl -O https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/MacPrintersCommandLine/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz
sudo lpadmin -p biostatcolor2 -L "biostatistics" -D "biostatcolor2 HP Color LaserJet M651" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz -v socket://biostatcolor2.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu:9100/ -E
biostatcolor3 - HP Color LaserJet M651 (general purpose printer)
cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
sudo curl -O https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/MacPrintersCommandLine/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz
sudo lpadmin -p biostatcolor3 -L "biostatistics" -D "biostatcolor3 HP Color LaserJet M651" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz -v socket://biostatcolor3.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu:9100/ -E
biostatcolor4 - HP Color M651 (administrators)
cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
sudo curl -O https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/MacPrintersCommandLine/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz
sudo lpadmin -p biostatcolor4 -L "biostatistics" -D "biostatcolor4 HP Color LaserJet M651" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP_Color_LaserJet_M651.gz -v socket://biostatcolor4.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu:9100/ -E
biostatcolor5 - HP Color M553 (graduate student printer)
cd /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/
sudo curl -O https://biostat.app.vumc.org/wiki/pub/Main/MacPrintersCommandLine/HP_Color_LaserJet_M553.gz
sudo lpadmin -p biostatcolor5 -L "biostatistics" -D "biostatcolor5 HP Color LaserJet M553" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP_Color_LaserJet_M553.gz -v socket://biostatcolor5.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu:9100/ -E