*New August 2025* This should work for "most".
If you use a Purdue IT-managed Mac (on JAMPF) and need to add a printer:
Look at the icons across the top right of your Mac and you should see an icon that looks like a printer. Click on it, and choose the option "View my Printers". This will open up "PaperCut Print Deploy Client". Click on "Add printers" on the left and then in the search box search for (as an example) me_2187. Click on the "Install" option for the printer you want and this will add the printer to your Mac. The next document you need to print should show that printer as an option.
LPD Mac Printing:
This document is not intended for personally owned Macs. Users of personally owned Macs should be encouraged to use the campus Papercut release stations. If using a personal Mac follow the directions for printing from here:
https://it.purdue.edu/facilities/instructionallabs/printing/mobile_printing.php
Printing from a Mac setup through university support groups to the Engineering or Polytechnic print servers
You will need to know the FQDN(Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the print server and the printer name ecnprint##.itap.purdue.edu printername-ps).
You need to install the appropriate drivers for your printer before printer setup.
HP Drivers can be found via the HP Easy Admin app for MacOS: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06164609
Or HP drivers can be acquired here: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1888?locale=en_US
Toshiba drivers can be found here: http://business.toshiba.com/support/
Ricoh drivers can be found here: https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/support-and-download
You will need to know the finisher and features of your printer to configure them during setup for full printer functionality. Failure to have the correct finisher can result in failed printing.
Departments may use department codes, requiring additional information for setup, find out if you have a department code ahead of time.
Once the correct driver is installed, and the printer setup information from above is certain, proceed as follows:
Go to
System Preferences
Printers & Scanners
Add (+)
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Choose IP
Address: (fill in FQDN of print server)
Protocol: Line Printer Daemon -LPD
Queue: printername-ps
Name: Indicate "printername-ps via LPD" indicating how the printer protocol is configured
Location can be left blank since the printername is likely similar to the location of the printer.
Use: Select Software, choose correct driver for the printer, and click OK
Click Add
Configure the finisher, and printer features and then click OK.
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Find the printer you just added, and double-click on it.
Go to the menu for the printer and choose from the Printer menu print test page.
If the test page prints out on the printer, your setup is completed.
--- If department codes are in place, you may need help setting up a default preset created
to have the department code in place for all printing to work.