Online Demo - Track Mac Printing
To manage and track Mac
printing, the Mac computer must print to the shared
printer on any Windows computer. If the printer is not shared on any Windows computer, you can share the printer
on the Windows computer that has PrintLimit Print Tracking
installed. To set up the PC, share the
printer on the network and then connect to the printer
from the MAC, follow the steps below for the PC and the
MAC. First,
Enable the LDP Print Service using the following steps: 1.
Click Start, and click Control
panel 2.
Click Programs and then
click Programs and Features 3.
Click Turn Windows Features on
or off 4.
Click to expand Print and
Document Services 5.
Check the box for LDP Print
Services 6.
Click OK and close the Programs
and Features window 1.
Click Start, type Devices
and Printers in the Search text box 2.
Click Devices and Printers from
the list above 3.
Right-click on the printer to be
shared and click Printer properties 4.
Click the Sharing tab and
click Change Sharing Options 5.
Check the box to Share this
printer 6.
Set the name for the share 7.
Click OK and then close
the Properties and Devices and Printers Windows
The last step,
connect the printer to the MAC using the following
steps:
Issue:
If you just want to track the Mac printing, Print Job Agent for Mac is not required to be installed on Mac clients. Skip the following Step 3.
Step 3.
Print Job Agent for
Mac provides the following additional features: 1. Enables users to confirm or
cancel the print jobs in the print notification popup
before the print jobs print. 2. Enables users to enter user
ID and (or) PIN before the print jobs print. 3. Enables users to enter or
select a client billing code/job code/project code
before the print jobs print.
1.
Open tracker_ip.ini, Enter the computer name or the IP Address of the computer (For example 192.168.0.10) that has PrintLimit Print Tracking installed. 2.
Copy PrintJobAgent.app.tar and
tracker_ip.ini to Mac computer. 3.
Double-click PrintJobAgent to run it.
If it doesn’t run, try a different agent. 4.
You can make agent run automatically
when Mac machine starts up: Option 1: Step 1: Find the PrintJobAgent
application icon and click on it. Step 2: Click on the File menu and
select Make Alias. Drag the alias to the desktop where
you can get at it. Step 3: Double-click to open the
System Folder and locate the Startup Items folder. Step 4: Drop the alias into the
Startup Items folder. The next time you start up your
Mac, the application runs automatically. Option 2: Go into the system preferences -
accounts - login items, you can adjust what programs
load and don't load at sign in.
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