HP Designjet 4500 Printer series - Manual (Page 111)

Manual connection with USB
1. Connect the USB cable between your printer and the computer.
2. Power on the printer.
3. Open the Printer Setup Utility and choose Add Printer from the Printers menu (or Add from the
Utilities list in earlier versions of Mac OS X).
4. In Mac OS 10.4 or later, click More Printers at the bottom of the Printer Browser.
5. Select USB.
6. A message may appear saying that new drivers have been detected; click OK to load them.
7. Select your printer from the list.
8. Click the Add button.
9. The printer icon is automatically added to the list of available printers.
NOTE Under Mac OS X 10.2 only, the new printer appears as a Generic printer. To correct
this, first delete the Generic printer icon. Then click the Add button, select USB from the
popup menu in the Add Printer dialog, select the name of your printer, and click the Add button.
Sharing the printer
NOTE Printer sharing between users is supported under Mac OS X 10.2.x and later.
If your computer is connected to a network, you can make your directly-connected printer available to
other computers on the same network.
1. Double-click the System Preferences icon in the Dock menu bar on your desktop.
2. Enable printer sharing by going to Sharing > Services > Printer Sharing.
3. From the client computer, the printer will now be displayed in the list of available printers in the
Printer Setup Utility.
Connect directly to a computer (Mac OS 9) [4000]
NOTE This topic applies to the HP Designjet 4000 Printer series only.
You can connect your printer directly to a computer without going through a network, by using the
optional USB 2.0 socket.
1. Make sure the printer is powered off.
2. Insert the Drivers and Documentation CD into your CD drive.
3. In Finder, navigate to the CD.
4. Double-click on OS 9 HP DJ 4000ps Install to launch the installer.
5. The installer takes you through various steps until you reach the main install dialog box. We
recommend that you choose the Easy install option.
6. Click the Install button.
7. The printer driver installs and a status bar is displayed.
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