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Pharos Mac OSX Client

 [Printer Friendly Version]

 

Printing to lab printers is not supported on the wireless network. You will need a Category 5 (Cat 5) network cable. You can borrow a Cat 5 cable from the Help Desk with your Student ID card (or other picture ID), or you can purchase your own from any computer store, including the UTA Computer Store.  A Cat 5 cable is a useful addition to any laptop case.  Network ports are available to plug into in Sam's Click Cafe, Ransom Hall, and most other OIT and Library computing facilities.  Ask a lab attendant for jack locations.

In order to print using UTA's print management system, two small programs (Pharos Notify & Pharos Pop-up Client) must be installed on your laptop.

 

Notify

  • Notify.dmg  - Install this disk image file to install the Pharos Notify Client.  When prompted for the database server enter, 129.107.56.99.  Leave default port numbers as they appear in the install.

Pop-up

  •  Popup.dmg - Install this disk image file to install the Pharos Notify Client.  When prompted for the database server enter, 129.107.56.99

Adding Printers

  1.  Open Printer Setup Utility in /Applications/Utilities/.
     

  2.  Click the <Add> button in the toolbar.
     

  3.  Hold down the <Option> key on the keyboard and click the <More Printers...> button.
     

  4. From the topmost popup button, select <Advanced>.
     

  5.  From the <Device> popup button, select <Pharos Print Server>.
     

  6. In the <Device Name> field, enter a name for the new printer queue.
     

  7. In the <Device URI> field, enter the Unified Resource Identifier for the desired Popup queue on a
    Pharos Print Server. This value should have the format "popup://print_server_address:515/queue_name",
    without the quotes.  Following are the print queue URI' you can use at UTA.

    • Architecture
      Computer Lab - Rooms 319 & 324
           popup://129.107.30.3:515/AB00Print
      AFA Library (B&W)
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBDIRECT
      AFA Library (Color)
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBCOLORDIRECT 

    • ARRI
      ARRI Library
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/UTAFWDIRECT

    • Business Building
      Computer Lab - Room 336
           popup://129.107.56.99:515/BUS00Print
      ELB Library
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBDIRECT

    • Engineering Laboratory Building
      Room 212 = popup://129.107.56.88:515/ELB0Print
       

    • Fine Arts
      Room 412 = popup://129.107.30.3:515/FA00Print

    • Central Library
      Second-Floor Reference Area
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBDIRECT
      Digital Media Studio
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/DMSDIRECT
      GIS Computer Lab - Room 510
           popup://129.107.27.1:515/GIS0Print
      Sam's Click Cafe
           popup://129.107.27.1:515/ICAFPrint
      Special Collections
           popup://129.107.67.173:515/SPCODIRECT

    • Nedderman Hall
      Computer Lab Room 231
           popup://129.107.56.88:515/NH00Print
       SEL Library
                 popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBDIRECT
           

    • Ransom Hall
      First Floor = popup://129.107.56.133:515/RH00Print

    • Social Work Complex
      SWEL Library =       popup://129.107.67.173:515/LIBDIRECT
       

    • University Hall
      Room003 = popup://129.107.56.99:515/UH00Print

     

  8. From the <Printer Model> popup button, select the type of printer associated with the Popup queue.
    Selecting "Generic" will work in most cases.
     

  9. Click <Add>. The new Popup queue will now show up in the list of printers.
     

  10. To print to the new queue, select it from the printer popup button in the print dialog of any application.
    Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/cups/printers.conf file and restart the cups daemon to change the printer settings. For each printer listed in the printer.conf file, edit the line that looks like this:
    DeviceURI popup://192.168.2.21/alpha  To include the port number, e.g. DeviceURI popup://192.168.2.21:515/alpha.

    NOTE: The printers.conf file is owned by root and is sensitive to extra characters that may be introduced by some editing applications. To perform the editing, you will need to authenticate yourself as root and make sure to use a proper text editor, such as emacs. Changing printer settings by editing the printers.conf file may be more convenient, but is also more risky - any commands you enter will be executed with root (i.e. full)privileges, which has the potential to damage your system if the wrong commands are entered.

Release Station:  The NetID you enter at the Print Release Station will be the ID used to login into your Macintosh computer.  This ID is not always the same as your UTA NetID.