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Mac OS X Command Line & Printing

Managing print queues can be an easy or a complicated task. But when troubleshooting queues, a great tool to have is an understanding of how Mac OS X, and more specifically, how CUPS is interacting with those jobs. Some basic print job/queue management commands: lpr—Send a print job to a print queue. lpq—Show the status [...]

Posted on November 2, 2009 at 10:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mac OS X Server 10.5: com.apple.mcxprinting

So if you set the RequireAdminToAddPrinters to false in the com.apple.mcxprinting MCX then you would expect that it then allow non-admin users to actually add printers to their computers.  Well, you (and I) would be wrong. Which leaves me pondering exactly what this string does… But that’s digressing. How would you actually make it where [...]

Posted on August 17, 2008 at 2:27 pm by admin · Permalink · One Comment
In: Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Network Printing

Brother MFC 7840w Drivers

Let’s see, this printer can scan and print over wireless and be a fax.  Not bad… http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_index.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc7840w_all&type2=1&os=81&flang=English&dlid=

Posted on December 29, 2007 at 5:16 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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