Printing to the ARPB2in a MAC environment

This installation guide will show the technician the procedure for connecting to the AR-PB2 print controller through the network and installing the AR-PB2 PPD. For this procedure, the Laserwriter 8 or the AdobePS driver canbe used. The Laserwriter 8 driver comes with the Macintosh system software, and the AdobePS driver can be obtained from Adobe’s web site at: www.adobe.com free of charge.

Prerequisites:Macintosh System 7.6 or later and EtherTalk on Macintosh.Sharp AR-PB2 installer software on a disk or network share.A Sharp Digital Imager connected to the network with TCP/IP properly configured.The firmware and software on the print controller and the Imager must be the latest versions.Note:Items in Italics indicate icons, buttons or menu options during installation.

Procedure:1 In order to print to the Sharp Digital Imager, AppleTalk must be set to run over Ethernet. Fromthe Apple menu select Control Panels and then click on AppleTalk.

Select Ethernet from the Appletalk drop down menu. Close the dialog box by clicking on the square in theupper left-hand corner. To keep the change, click on Save

1 Insert the AR-PB2 printer driver disk for the Macintosh into the computer. The diskicon will appear on the desktop. Double click the AR-PB2 driver disk.

Double-click the AR-PB2 Installer icon.

The Sharp AR-PB2 Installer window will open. Read the Reference information if desired byclicking on the appropriate Reference button. To proceed with the installation, click on Install

When you Click Install you will given the option to run the installation in Easy Mode, CustomInstall or Custom Remove. Choose the desired option and click on Install.

The Installer will offer to close all of the running applications before continuing the installation.Make sure you will not loose any information when performing this operation. If you need to savefiles before proceeding click Cancel, save the files you need to save and return to the installation.Click Continue to close the open applications and copy the files to the hard drive.

After the files have been copied, a dialog box will show that the installation was successful. ClickQuit to leave the Installer.

The Sharp Imager PPD files have been copied onto the hard drive.

Go to the Apple menu and select Chooser

When the chooser applet opens select the AdobePS or the LaserWriter 8 icon in the left panel.From the right panel, select Sharp Corporation Printer. Click Setup

After you click Setup, you will get either one of these screens, depending whether the Mac hasalready established connection with the printer or not:

Click on Select PPD.

Scroll down to find the Sharp AR-xxx.PPD entries and select the PPD file for the Sharp Imageryou are installing and click Choose.

Once you have selected the right PPD file for your installation click on Configure

Click OK after selecting the appropriate options for the AR-PB2

This completes the AR-PB2 printer installation under Macintosh