Mac Printer Driver Installation

The Office of Information Technology is unable to automatically push out the Canon SecurePrint printer drivers to Mac computers. To manually install the Canon printer drivers on your computer, please follow these instructions. 

Installing the Printer Driver

  1. Click on the Apple Icon in the upper-left corner of the screen, and select System Settings...
    Apple menu with a red box around the System Settings... option.
  2. In the System Settings... window select Printers & Scanners. To add a new printer, click the "+" button at the bottom left of the window or the Add Printer, Scanner, or Fax… button if no "+" button is present. This will bring up the Add Printer dialog box.Apple system preferences menu with a red box and arrow highlighting the Printers & Scanners option
  3. Right click (Or hold Control on your keyboard and left click) in the Add Printer menu and in the menu that appears select Customize Toolbar...
     
  4. Drag the Advanced gear icon up into the toolbar and click Done.
    Add Printer menu with the customized toolbar pulled up and the Advanced button highlighted by a red box and arrow.
  5. Click on the Advanced button and fill in the following settings in each drop down menu. 

    Type: Windows printer via spoolss

    Device: Another Device

    URL: smb://pahrah.unr.edu/SecurePrint

    Name: SecurePrint

    Location: This can be left blank. 

    Use: Generic PostScript Printer 
    Printer Information window showing all the settings outlined in the instructions and a red box and arrow highlighting the Add button
  6. Check the Duplex Printing box and hit Okay.
     
  7. Now that you have the printer driver installed, it is necessary to install the uniFLOW Client as well. You will not be able to print without the uniFLOW software installed. 
     
  8. Once you've sent your first print job, a dialog box will appear prompting you to enter the Name field in the form of your NetID@unr.edu then enter your NetID password. Make sure to check the Remember this password in my keychain box to save your login information for future print jobs then hit OK.
    Login page with your Name filled in as NetID@unr.edu, password filled out, keychain button checked and the OK button highlighted by a red box and arrow. 

 

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Article ID: 117456
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Thu 10/1/20 9:54 PM
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