Xerox Standard Accounting Setup on a MAC
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Standard Account Setup on MAC – Not so quick/Quick Start Guide for Xerox Altalinks.
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We have multiple customers that use MAC’s (Apple Computers) in their work environment and need Xerox Standard Accounting to track the page type and count printed by each user. Xerox Altalink and WorkCentre 7855 ‘s (family) have Xerox Standard Accounting included. This was written to help our smaller realtor offices setup Standard Accounting on their MAC’s.
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If you click the right link (make sure you click the one that starts with support.xerox.com……
You need to download the driver that is correct for your Xerox system –
If you don’t know with Associated product you have, chances are you have a “built-in controller”. If your Xerox has a Fiery Logo on the LCD panel when you walk up to copy something, then you need to select the EFI controller option.
1 English Xerox setup for Mac OSX Originally prepared by Joe Nichols on 8/26/14; updated 8/23/2017 by Mike Bierschenk If you are having problems printing after following these instructions, it is. 1 English Xerox setup for Mac OSX Originally prepared by Joe Nichols on 8/26/14; updated 8/23/2017 by Mike Bierschenk If you are having problems printing after following these instructions, it is.
Next you need to select the correct operating system and language.
Download and Install
Hopefully you got the driver installed okay.
Next- we will need to configure the driver for standard accounting.
Go to the printers properties and you should see this screen –
*Note – I don’t have a picture of the MAC’s printer properties screen. Feel free to send me one if you do and I’ll update this with credit to you.
Click Layout –
Select Xerox Features
Click Paper/Output
Click Advanced
Under Configuration – Click Accounting
Type in the User ID inside the Default User Id.
BAM! You are done.
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FYI:
MAC’s above 10.9 should be able to use SMB, below should use FTP.
HOW TO SETUP SMB SCANNIGN TO MAC (on OSx 10.9 and above)
Create folder on desktop
Go to Preferences – select Sharing
Tick “File Sharing”
Under “Shared Folders” click the plus sign and add the folder
Under “Users” click the plus sign and add the account you will use for access and give it read/write access
Click on options
Click on Guest tick box and enter password for account when prompted
Click Done
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Settings on the printer should be as per below:
**If the scan fails, then on 10.10 and above, MAC's use SMB v3 and upgrading to the Xerox latest firmware should then resolve the issue and get SMB scanning working
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