Setting up for Printing from AirBears -- Macintosh and CUPS

This page describes how to set up printing for computers using the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS); this includes systems running Mac OS X.

Setup is rather easy: Edit the file /etc/cups/client.conf, and find a line similar to

#ServerName blah.blah.blah

Change it so that it reads

ServerName printserver.math.berkeley.edu

Alternatively (if for example you access other cups systems at times) you can leave the configuration file alone and specify the server on the command line via the -h command; e.g.,

lpstat -h printserver.math.berkeley.edu -p 744

As yet another alternative, you can specify the printserver by printer; for example,

<Printer 744>
DeviceURI ipp://printserver.math.berkeley.edu/printers/744
</Printer>

Or, try the following if the above does not work:

<Printer 744>
DeviceURI lpd://printserver-1.math.berkeley.edu/744
</Printer>

Web access to our CUPS server is available at http://printserver.math.berkeley.edu:631/.

Last updated 28 February 2012