How to install printer on macOS?

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This guide is to help staff to set up and install printer on their macOS computer. Before we start to install the printer, make sure your computer is connected to Staff@APU 2.0 network.

Step 1 - You have to first make a connection between your macOS computer and printer server to communicate with printers. Figure 1.0 shows, from the top menu bar click on, Go > Connect to Server.

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Step 2: Enter ip address “10.61.10.142”. click Connect.

Step 3 - Enter staff account credentials. Click Connect.

Step 4 - Select AddFollowU folder.

Fig 1.3: Enter Staff account credential and click connect. Select ‘AddFollow U’ and click OK.

Step 5 - YSoft SafeQ External Installer > YSoft SafeQ Client for MacOS X > Click on the .dmg Disk Image file (YSoft SafeQ Client Mac OS X-4.9.dmg).

Step 6 - The disk image file contains the installer file .pkg (Ysoft SafeQ Client Mac OS X.pkg), double click on this file and install it on your macOS computer.

Step 7 - The installer will guide you through the installation of the print client and for security reasons, it will require your computer admin account credentials to install the software.

Step 8 - Click Log Out, and you have now successfully installed the print client on your Mac to communicate with the printer server.

Fig 1.6: Save all your work and close all applications before you install because you will be logged out to complete installation.

Install & Setup Printer

Now we will install the printer driver on our Mac to communicate with printer machines connected to printer server. First we need to check which version of macOS running on our computer.

Step 1 - Top menu bar; click on Apple Logo > About This Mac.

The next step is to download and install the printer driver, follow the steps below;

Step 2 - Go to Google.

Step 3 - Search “fuji xerox 3320 driver for mac”.

Step 4 - Click on the first link.

After you have installed the printer driver then, you have to set up printer on your computer. So you can send documents to the printer machines connected to printer server to be printed.

Step 5 - from the top menu bar; click on Apple Logo > System Preferences > Printers & Scanners > Click on Add (+).

On the Add window, you should see Advanced option at toolbar, but if you do not see it then, you have to right click on the toolbar and from drop down menu click Customise Toolbar and another window will pop up. From this window you can see items that you can add to to your toolbar, drag Advanced and drop it on Add window toolbar and click Done.

Step 6 - From the add window, right click on the toolbar.

Step 7 - From the drop down menu, Click Customise toolbar.

Step 8 - Another window will popup, Click add to your toolbar > Drag Advanced and drop it on add window toolbar, then click Done.

Now click on Advanced, here you have to do configuration to set up the printer;

Step 9 - Type: YSoft SafeQ connected network printer

Step 10 - URL: 10.61.10.142

Step 11 - Name: Print@APU

Step 12 - Click on Choose a Driver and from drop down list click on “Select Software..”

Fig 2.5: Configuration communication with print server

Printer Software window will pop-up and select the printer driver you have just installed on your computer, you can also search the printer driver “3320” from the search bar on the top right. After you have selected the printer software, the window will close and you will go back to Advanced Tab and click on Add. It will start setting up the printer and do not change anything here, click OK.

Result - After you have set up your printer, you should see Print@APU in the list of Printers & Scanners. This means you have successfully installed and setup printer on your macOS computer and start printing documents.

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