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Direct Printing from a Mac

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When you use direct printing, you bypass papercut and whatever you print will immediately come out of the printer you send it to. In most cases, we recommend using papercut instead.

Set up direct printing on a mac

Screengrab of macOS Apple menu with System Settings selected

screen grab of macOS system settings window with printers and scanners circled on the bottom left

Screen grab of macOS printers pane with the add printer, scanner, or fax butotn

Select the "Advanced" tab (if you don't see advanced, then right click a blank space in the "tab area" and select "customize toolbar")
  • Select the type as "Internet Printing Protocol (ipps)" 
  • Enter the URL as
    ipps://supernode-02:443/printers/<PRINTER_NAME>/.printer
    • *Replace <PRINTER_NAME> with the printer's shared name (Ex. LIB1-ColorSand)
  • Enter the printer's name
  • "Use" should be set to Generic PostScript Printer
  • Click Add

Screen grab of macOS advanced add printer dialog box

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