Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Using the remote printing websites for print jobs from MAC computer at the library

Hello everyone, Eloise May library has the MAC computer that runs on Apple software and we use that for patrons who would like to sign up to use the computer for one hour(gives them time to fill out online job applications etc.) So far, the limitation with the MAC computer was that it did not have printing capabilities as it is not hooked on to the PC reservation system. Today, I asked a patron to use the remote website that was provided to us by DS staff for patrons who want to print from their own computers. That remote website worked and so the patron was able to print from the MAC computer. Here's the remote website URL provided to us by DS that patrons can use with their own computers as well as the MAC computer with the Apple software -http://192.168.0.251:30044/clientlauncher. If this website does not work with some patrons' computers, it may be because of the firewall in their computers that must be preventing the downloads too.
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3 comments:

  1. TatyanaApril 13, 2011 at 12:46 PM

    And I witnessed as Padma generated this idea! Get a patent on it!
    Tatyana

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  2. LibrarianVApril 14, 2011 at 11:06 AM

    This is very good to know. Thanks, Padma!

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  3. SofiaApril 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    This is great news. I was able to help a patron print from a MAC computer at the library on an extremely day. It helps a lot for patrons who use MAC computers, even though it is for one hour for different reasons. Thank you Padma.

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