Xerox printer

[bryanoneill]

Hi,

What is the best way to install Xerox printer via Jamf ?

[dsavageED]

Are you printing directly to the device or via a sever queue?

We use a script to add and maintain our printers - https://github.com/UoE-macOS/jss/blob/master/coreconfig-add-printer.sh

We also print via Windows print servers, so need to do a little editing on the driver itself - https://github.com/UoE-macOS/jss/blob/master/coreconfig-check-xerox-drivers.sh

[kowsar_ahmed · Accepted solution]

Download the apple Xerox print drivers as that contains pretty much all drivers: https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1861?locale=en_US

Deploy the package and printer in one policy. Alternatively deploy the .pkg to all your machines then deploy printer via self-service or policy. Easy!

[jmahlman]

What @kowsar.ahmed said is basically all we do, install the drivers first then map the printers. We grab the printer up after installing it on a system and changing any config settings.

[derektom]

Hello all,
Happy 2018!
I'm new to Jamf and my colleague and I had a 3-day JumpStart just before the Christmas holidays.
Our JSS is version 10.
Our office has a Fuji Xerox DocuColor 1450 printer which uses a Windows 7 PC running FX_ServerManager as the RIP.
We normally set up our Macs to print directly via lpd to a few print queues defined on the RIP (e.g. bw, color).
We specify the printer's IP and print queue name.
The driver we're using is "FX DocuColor 1450 GA PSPX60 PS E2 v3019.101".
During our JumpStart, our trainer showed us how to set up a new printer using Composer using the snapshotting function but it didn't work.
So I gather from others that the best way to set up our Fuji Xerox printers is via scripts.
The scrips that @dsavageED shared look good but could anyone please share an example of such a script in use (obfuscating sensitive info)?
Many thanks!

[marklamont]

have a look at my answers in this thread, these are for xerox printers, as per the title of this thread, but the cups commands are basically the same. Some options (-o) will be vendor specific but most aren't. in the script $prUser is a variable passed to the script with the users AD account name.

man lpadmin

will give you plenty of info about setting the printers up in a script.

[derektom]

@marklamont , thanks very much for your helpful guidance and references!

I also came across this helpful article from @rtrouton :

Generating printer configurations using payload-free_package_printer_generator.sh | Der Flounder
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/generating-printer-configurations-using-payload-free_pa...