Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J... View more
Over the past few months, I've had a few users in my organization experience a problem with their printers disappearing. All of our printers are network printers with static IPs. For some reason, the few users attempt to print and find out there are ... View more
Hey, I would like to add a printer via command line. Now I find several lpadmin scripts on the web that make this possible, but I haven't succeeded yet. So I hope I can get some help here. If I now want to add a printer via the GUI, I can do this wit... View more
Is there a way to upgrade CUPS in macOS without having to move to a newer macOS version? It's been suggested that brew can do this but I tried that on my office Mac and it just seems to put it in a "side-by-side" configuration rather than switching o... View more
I am looking into deploying Printers With Jamf Pro, I can Get the PPD file uploaded and deployed but cant find how to enable 3 hole and staple features? I can go in and manually enable the document finisher and punch unit but would like to push it al... View more
Having an issues with a user on site who is using a mac with a local account however wants to be able to print to our network printers. I have added the printer on his machine and the first time typed in his domain credentials in and saved it in the ... View more
Hello,We got some new IPP USB only printers HP Officejet 2600.Now adding them via GUI is as usual easy go,...Now adding those printers via terminal commands seems to be a mess.Does anyone know how to do this correctly ?ipp2ppd does pop up in processe... View more
New JAMF admin that is also new to the MacOS platform (don't ask how I was chosen for this role) so I'm looking for more hand-holding than your average poster here. We are trying to set up our UniFLOW printers through JAMF to give our users the abili... View more
I've had printers pausing all the time on macs and a simple resume gets it back up and running but I've just started seeing printers pausing and once resumed they pause again instantly and say "connection refused". Reinstalling the printer doesn't wo... View more
I have a custom event that installs a printer driver, and it works great. Previously i set the 'executable frequency' to 'once per computer'. So any additional printers would not need to re-install the same driver over and over. Now, after JAMF versi... View more
I'm trying to automate Department ID configuration for our Canon MFD's deployed. Composer says that changing the department ID modifies the PPD file for that printer, however I can't seem to find where in the PPD file this is being changed. Has anyon... View more
My campus has about 700 printers spread between 20 buildings. In an effort to make the network more secure, printers have been moved to their own 10.x.x.x subnets, but this requires printers to be added via Spoolss on Macs. Given the complexity of th... View more
We just started using Papercut for our printers. At this same time, we purchased all new HP printers. I used the Papercut article for mapping the printers to our iMacs https://www.papercut.com/kb/Main/UseJamfProToDeployPrintersOnManagedMacOSDevicesTh... View more
I have a script that I have set up that installs a specific Konica copier for our faculty and sets the proper page handling settings for them. The problem that I am running into is that many of these faculty need to authenticate in order to print. I ... View more
I was making new installers packages that set defaults for all of our printers to BW 2-Sided to save some trees and Ink. I have encountered some difficulties where the nice print dialog from the vendors Xerox and HP now default to a very ugly confusi... View more
I'm going nuts trying to enable double sided for an lab with an KM Bizhub 958 connected to papercut. I'm using the following lpadmin: lpadmin -E -p "STPRINT-CommonsFollowMe" -v "smb://stprint.cscc.local/CommonsFollowMe" -P /Library/Printers/PPDs/Cont... View more
Has anyone else been seeing issues with 10.14.5+ printers added by the user don't show up under Printers & Scanners? I have tried resting the print system and they still refuse to show up. This is with local, IP or Active Directory printers. View more
I'm attempting to find the -o options for a Konica Minolta bizhub C958 to pre-configure the PaperSource / Finisher extra hardware using lpadmin -o. Is there an easy way to find all the -o options for this printer? View more
Here is my process for setting up these printers: Install the driver onto my config Mac. Setup the printers in System Preferences>Printers and Scanners Open CUPS and configure the defaults for the printers. Add printers to Jamf Admin. Add printers to... View more
Does anyone have a suggestion for blocking AirPrint discovery on macOS? I have an Printopia Pro AirPrint server configured for iOS devices. iPhone and iPad users can quickly print to printers on-the-fly, from meetings, walking down the hall, etc. Ver... View more
What is the best way to go about doing this? We have a handful of Konica Minolta copiers, I add those through Jamf Admin, push out the drivers from Konica Minolta alongside them and that all works smoothly. We also have several HP printers spread out... View more
Hey everyone! i'm having an odd issue that's been creeping up. We use a windows print server for our Macs because we use PaperCut. We will get multiple "printer status" messages in the queu and eventually one of them will error out causing jobs to ba... View more
So, I've been given general admin access to the JamfPro Cloud and one of things I want to do is to set up a printer on the policy. The problem is, is that it goes directly to the "Generic PostScript Driver" instead of the one I downloaded off the pri... View more
I have a single printer inside our Self Service that work across all our printers via a badge printing system. In order for PrintJobs to be associated to their correct owner, the printer must be added as the current user. The Problem. When I run the ... View more
Does anyone have experience deploying printers in JAMF with Mojave? I've tried to use JAMF Admin to capture it, built a script using lpadmin, etc, and none of it works. There seems to be something missing. #!/bin/sh sudo lpadmin -p "PRINTER" -L "Loca... View more
Hi All, What's is the most stable and secure follow me printing solution of Mac environment ? (the users are managed by Jamf)Have anyone used PrinterLogic ? DO YOU RECOMMEND IT ? Thanks ! View more
Hi JN! Because I can only set printer defaults using a script that acts on the CUPS friendly name, I need to set the existing printer friendly names to something consistent The second part of the script will look for this name to set Black and White ... View more
Hi Folks, We use Acronis Files Connect (formally ExtremeZ-IP) on the back-end for our file and print servers. Hoping someone here does too. We were wondering if anyone has had any success in creating the print queues that require the use of the Zidge... View more
Hey all, So we're using JAMF 10.10 on an Azure server. Which is also several other things; our AD (which we don't use across the whole company), DNS (just so in-network devices can get to JAMF and printers (if Windows)), and print server. We've recen... View more
Hi All, I did a quick search on here, but couldn't find what I was looking for. The ask is to block the ability for any printer that isn't managed from being able to print. i.e. No home printers. I'm starting my research into this, but wanted to chec... View more
Hi JN! I've been tasked to set B+W colour option as default on everyone's computer. Doing this manually will be...a nightmare...so I'm looking at doing a script that runs and configures the color option via CUPS I've looked at previous posts on this ... View more