Adding a Home Printer

If you're using a MIAD-owned Mac laptop and wish to add a home printer, you can do so without needing assistance from IT.

Staff & faculty should already be granted printer management permissions on their machine.

If the Mac and printer are already connected to your wifi/wired connection at home, the printer might be available to you without any setup.

To check, choose File > Print, click the Printer pop-up menu, choose Nearby Printers or Printers & Scanners preferences, then choose your printer. If your printer isn’t available, you can add it with one of the options below.

Using a USB Printer

Ideal if you don't want your printer having a network connection

1.  Plug the USB from your printer into the laptop
   • In most cases, it should auto-detect, if it doesn't, proceed
2. Click the Apple icon in the top-left menu > System Preferences > Printers & Scanners
3. Click + and select your printer on the preceding list
   • Look for a printer name with USB listed under the Kind column

Using a Wifi Printer

If you use this method, you must inform IT of the following:

• Manufacturer (Epson or HP, for example)
• Model (MFP M26nw, for example)

We will subscribe to CVE notifications so we can check with you if there's a known exploit; you will be responsible for maintaining the security of your own personal devices.

Note that networked printers are common vectors of attack and entry-points into home networks, keep the drivers and firmware up to date for maximum security.

1. Connect the printer to your network.  Your printer should have come with instructions on how to do so.
2. Click the Apple icon at the top-left menu > System Preferences > Printers & Scanners
3. Click + and select your printer in the preceding list

If you are prompt for admin credentials during printer setup, please take a screenshot of your full screen, along with the asset tag of your machine (# on the bottom of the laptop with a MIAD logo) and send to the helpdesk