Mathematical Sciences

Printing Over Wireless


We are piloting a project whereby a student will be able to print to a printer in NEU 9 over the wireless network at TWU. The print job would be held in a queue until the student authenticates at the release station and releases the job. This action will also result in the students print account being charged for the printout just as it would if the student had printed from a lab computer.

The hope is that this service will be quite useful to students as they would no longer need to transfer files to lab machines and deal with the myriad of issues that can and do come up during the transfer process.

Installation Instructions

MacOSX configuration
  1. Go into System Preference (on the apple menu)
  2. Select "Print & Fax"
  3. Click the "+" to add a printer
  4. If "Advanced" is not in the tool bar, you must add it by doing the following:
    • CTRL-Click on the toolbar and choose "Customize Toolbar" from the menu.
    • Drag the "Advanced" icon to the toolbar and click done
  5. Click the "Advanced" icon
  6. In the "Type" field, select Windows
  7. In the URL field, smb://gutenberg01/hobbes
  8. In the "Print Using" field, select the driver to use and search for "Xerox Phaser 4500DT" and choose "add"
  9. Click "continue" on the next screen and you should now have a new printer called gutenberg01
Windows configuration
  1. Click "Start" then "Run"
  2. Type in \\gutenberg01 and press enter
  3. Right click on the printer called "Hobbes" and choose "connect"
  4. You should now have a printer called Hobbes
Linux configuration

Use the above information to help you set up the printer or see Dave (NEU 6) or Joel (NEU 22) for assistance.

Wireless Printing Instructions

Once you print your document, you will need to "release" the print job at the designated release station. As this is still a pilot project, there is only one, and it is located in NEU 9. Ask a teaching assistant to help with this process. Currently this service is only available during lab hours. If the pilot project is successful, it will be expanded to the library and other supervised locations.