Off-campus Access
Student Printing with Remote Working Client from OS X Lion
Introduction
Once you have followed these instruction to set up the Student-Mono and Student-Colour printers, you can print to them from off campus provided that you have first connected using the VPN Client; you can subsequently collect your printout when you are next on campus.
Set up
You will need to do the set up either on campus, or you can follow the instructions at home after you have connected using the VPN client.
Introduction
The following step by step instructions are for Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion.
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Download the latest Ricoh drivers for OS X 10 and install them.
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In System Preferences select Print And Scan.
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Click the + symbol to add a new printer.
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If you have the Advanced option in your Add Printer Window choose it. If not you will need to customise your toolbar which you do by Ctrl-clicking on the tool bar area and selecting Customize Toolbar from the contextual menu.
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Drag Advanced to the toolbar. Then click to select it and choose Windows via spoolss from the menu.
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The Printer URL should be filled in in the form of smb://lunet:username@lboro.ac.uk/printers where the Student Mono queue is required, replacing username with your username. (For adding the Student Colour queue see step 11.)
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At present the driver to select is Ricoh Afficio MP 5000. Click Add.
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Optionally change the name of the printer here to change what will be shown in the Print & Scan control panel and in the Printers list when printing. Click Add.
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For Option Tray select Lower Paper Trays.
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When printing you will be prompted for your username and password which should be filled in as shown, with Registered User selected, Name being your username (you don't need to prefix with LUNET\ as this was entered at step 6), Password completed with your University password. If you are the sole user of your system you may choose to Remember this password in my keychain which means you will no longer be prompted for your username and password as the job will be sent to the printer automatically, and you will be charged accordingly when you print.
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For adding the Student Colour queue these same steps should be followed except that in step 6 the path is smb://printers.lboro.ac.uk/student-colour and the driver to be used is Ricoh Afficio MP C5000.
Printing to the print queue
When sending a job to the print queue if you are not prompted for your username and password immediately the job will appear in the printer window (this window will open automatically when printing) on hold requiring authentication. Highlight the job and click Resume, and then enter Lunet\ followed by your university username, and password. This will release the job for printing.
