Printing from Apples OS X
OS X is nice from my perspective since it much closer to Linux and easier to manage. OS X even comes with CUPS installed, so instead of using the build in graphical tools, which is somewhat limited since it can add raw printers, I can add the printers through the Macintosh own CUPS server. The graphical tool is actually just a fronted to the cups server. This is done by pointing a browser to the address http://127.0.0.1:631. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP address of the local machine and 631 is port number of the cups server.
Under printers I chose “Add printer” and fill a name that identifies the printer in this case “ip3000simplex”. In the next window I chose IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) and fill in the url of my printer
http://192.168.1.153:631/printers/ip3000simplex
The next step is to define a driver and here the right choice is “RAW”.
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