Macintosh - Setup and Configuration Instructions

Creating a Queue in RPM

1. Choose 'New Queue…' from the 'Queues' menu in RPM.
2. Type the name of the queue you wish to create. For these instructions, let's use 'rpm'. Now press OK.

   

3. In the 'Edit Queues' dialog, choose the second queue type: "Pass data directly to the printer (raw)".

   

4. Press the 'Printer Setup' button. In the 'Print Setup' dialog, choose the printer you wish to print to. When you have selected the printer, press the 'OK' button.

   

5. Press OK on the 'Edit Queues' dialog. You are now ready to start configuring your Macintosh computer to send data to RPM.

Note: You should use a 'raw' type queue in RPM, but you may use one of the other types, text or filter. Filter queues can open the file in another program or save the file to disk. Since the data will already be formatted, a 'text' type queue may not be useful.

Configuring the Macintosh LPR

The first step is to configure the IP Address of the Macintosh PC. The Macintosh stores TCP/IP information in the TCP/IP Control Panel. If networking is already configured, it does not need to be done again. Once TCP/IP is configured on the Mac, a printer can now be configured to print through RPM.

1. Launch the Desktop Utility. By default, this utility is located in the Apple Extras folder at the root level of the hard disk drive.

   

2. Select the "Printer LPR" option and click OK. You may be able to choose a different print driver at this point.

   

3. By default, the PPD file shows "Generic" as the type. Press the "Change…" button to modify the "Postscript Printer Description" (PPD) file. Select the printer type to match the actual destination printer.

   

4. Press "Change" under the "Internet Printer" section.

   

5. Enter the IP Address of the RPM host and the name of a queue in RPM you have configured. Click "Verify" to be sure a connection is made to RPM and then click OK.

   

6. From the "File" menu, choose "Save".
7. Enter the name for the printer and location to save the icon to, and press OK. The default name is the RPM host's IP Address and the destination is the desktop, but this information can be modified.
8. If you require changing the page orientation, tray to print from, etc., you need to modify the printer options manually. To set the options, highlight the printer icon and select "Change Setup" from the "Printing" menu.

   

Congratulation, your Macintosh computer can now send print jobs to RPM!