Configuring a Printer Management Profile for Computers

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You can create a profile with the Printer Management payload configured in order to automatically install printers and drivers on computers in the scope of the profile.

Requirements

If the printers you want to configure use drivers, you must install and package the drivers as PKG files on the Mac computer you will use to configure the profile. The steps below need to be performed on a Mac computer with printer drivers installed by Jamf School. If you need the drivers for your printer, you can find the drivers in Printers and scanner drivers for Mac from Apple's support website.

  1. In Jamf School, navigate to Profiles > Overview in the sidebar.
  2. Click + Create Profile.
  3. Select the macOS operating system.
  4. Select the type of enrollment you want to make the profile for.
  5. Enter a name in the Profile name field and configure the additional settings as needed, including the time filter.
  6. Click Finish.
  7. In the list of payloads on the left side of the pane, locate the macOS payload category and click the Printer Management payload.
  8. Click Configure.
  9. To add a printer to the profile, click + Add an installed printer and configure the following fields.
    Note:

    You can find the printer information on a Mac computer with the printer drivers already mapped by navigating to About This Mac > More Info... > System Report... > Printers, then select the printer to view the details.

    1. In the Device URI field, enter the device URI. If you cannot locate the device URI in the System Report, you can find the device URI of available network printers in your local network by executing the following in Terminal: lpinfo --include-schemes dnssd -v
    2. In the Display Name field, enter the printer name that will display to users.
    3. In the Location field, enter the printer location.
    4. In the Model field, enter the printer model. If you cannot locate the device model in the System Report, you can find it by executing the following in Terminal: lpinfo -m
      Note:

      The model displays after the file path of the driver.

    5. From the Printer Locked pop-up menu, choose "Not required" or "Required". If you choose "Required", the printer needs an administrator password to print.
    6. In the PPD Path field, enter the path to the PPD file. The PPD file must be prefixed with file://localhost/. If you cannot locate the PPD file path in the System Report, you can find it by executing the following in Terminal on a computer with the driver: lpinfo -m
  10. From the Default printer pop-up menu, choose a printer to use as the default printer.
  11. (Optional) To automatically include a footer on documents printed on a printer, select the Print page footer (user name and date) checkbox and configure the settings as needed.
  12. In the list of payloads on the left side of the pane, locate the General category and click the Scope payload.
  13. Configure the scope of the profile by clicking the + icon and adding device groups to the profile scope using the pop-up menu.
  14. Click the Settings icon on the right side of the page, and do one of the following:

    • To install the profile on devices automatically, click Change to automatic installation for all groups.

    • To allow users to install the profile themselves, click Change to on-demand installation for all groups. The profile will be available for users to install in the Jamf Teacher or Jamf School Student apps.

  15. Click Save.
  16. Reboot the computers in the scope after the profile is distributed to them to ensure the printer is installed.