Enabling Cups Printer Interface For Mac 2017

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If your printer supports 2-Sided Printing, _AND_ the drivers tells the Mac, then it should be an available option in the Print dialog box, or maybe configuratble from System Prefernces -> Printers.


If the driver does not tell the Mac, you may be able to enable this via the Unix CUPS subsystem (Geekie stuff follows)


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From a Terminal session enable the CUPS web interface:

sudo cupsctl WebInterface=yes

Finally, you can go ahead and disable the CUPS web interface again via the Terminal command cupsctl WebInterface=no. Configuring via the Manufacturer's Driver in CUPS. Just for comparison, the Ricoh driver has many, many more settings, in CUPS and in the Printer Presets and System Preferences pages (but I still have problems with duplex printing - don't ask me why).

Enabling
  • As Figure 4-8 shows, the makor components of CUPS are as follows: CUPS Scheduler—cupsd is the scheduling process that acts as an HTTP 1.1 server and handles printing requests sent by clients using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Cupsd also acts as a Web server and provides a Web interface for administering CUPS print queues. Configuration Files—The configuration files in /etc/cups.
  • Enabling CUPS Printer Interface for Mac. CUPS (formerly known as Common UNIX Printing System), is a network printing system that allows Mac OS devices to connect to various printers on a network, including Cash Drawers. As the CUPS Web Interface may be disabled by default on your Mac, you will need to enable it in order to have your Thermal.

Now from a Web browser:

<http://localhost:631>

  • Click on the 'Printers' tab
  • Select the Print from the list
  • There should be 'Maintenance' and 'Administration' buttons
  • Click 'Administration' -> 'Set Default Options'


Now things get printer specific. Look for something about Duplex printing, such as:

Duplex Unit (_) Installed (X) Not Installed

Click on (X) Installed


Click on 'Set Default Options' at the bottom of the page.

Username: <your_Unix_side_Username>

Password: <your_Mac_password>

Now you can disable the CUPS web interface:

sudo cupsctl WebInterface=no

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