Mac Printing
There Are Actually Two SCS Print Servers
In order to prevent confusion, the first thing to know is that CSCF maintains two different print servers for SCS.
- printers.cs.uwaterloo.ca is a Microsoft Windows print server.
- print.cs.uwaterloo.ca is an Ubuntu based CUPS server.
Both servers are mentioned in this document for different purposes. Both servers provide a slightly varying list of print queues.
Laptop wireless access to printers
- IMPORTANT if your are using wireless you may have also use the campus VPN to print
- https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/view/CF/AnyConnect
Print via the SCS Print Server - printers.cs.uwaterloo.ca
This is perhaps the most straight forward means to setup an SCS print queue on a local Mac device. Especially for a laptop computer on wireless. Also, not all SCS printers may be accessed through direct connection - outlined below - and must be reached through a CSCF managed server with access controls. You will require
CS-GENERAL domain credentials to access it queues.
- Click on the Apple icon at the upper left of the desktop and select System Preferences... from the drop down menu.
- Select Printers & Scanners.
- Click on the + button in the lower left of the Printers & Scanners pop-up.

- If the Advanced option is missing from the Add pop-up, then you will have to add it to continue with the printer setup.
- Right click to the right of the Add title at the top of the pop-up and select Customize Toolbar... from the drop down menu.

- Drag the Advanced icon up into the toolbar of the Add pop-up. A + symbol will appear when you can drop the icon into the toolbar.

- Click on the Done button.
- Click on the Advanced option in the Add pop-up.

- After the Searching for printers... scan completes, select Type: Windows printer via spoolss.

- Enter for the URL: smb://printers.cs.uwaterloo.ca/<print_queue_name> (lj_csgrad used just as an example).
- Finding the print_queue_name: if you want to use the printers in DC 2583 Grad Mail Room, use lj_csgrad; if you want to use the printers from other locations, go to http://print.cs.uwaterloo.ca:631/printers and find the queue name.
- Select Use: Generic PostScript Printer.

- When the Setting up smb://printers.cs.uwaterloo.ca/<print_queue_name> drop down appears, select Duplex Printing Unit and click the *OK button.

With the print queue setup, whenever you send a print job, you will be prompted for your
CS-GENERAL domain credentials before printing is permitted.
Mac Printing Set up links
* A collection of references to documents describing how to set up printing in the Mac OS X environment
For printing to the Main CS printers, you will need to add an lpd connection to "print.cs", then add the queue ljp_csSee
MacsOnMainCSPrinters for more detailsYou will also need to have your machine/userid added to the list of clients allowed to print.Send an email request to
accounts@cs or speak to your
point of contact
.