Lesson 27—Manage Printers and Scanners

Question 1

Which Apple technology helps you find printers and print without downloading or installing printer drivers?

Answer 1

AirPrint helps you find printers and print without downloading or installing printer drivers.

Question 2

What does CUPS do?

Answer 2

CUPS manages printing for macOS Big Sur, including local and shared printing.

Question 3

Which two actions might you need to take to find and connect a Windows-based computer to your CUPS-shared print service?

Answer 3

The CUPS-shared print service lets network clients locate your shared printer configurations using Bonjour. However, different versions of Windows might require you to add additional drivers. Network clients can also enter your Mac computer’s IP address or DNS host name to access your Mac shared print service.

Question 4

Under what circumstances can a standard (non administrator) user configure a printer?

Answer 4

Assuming the default settings for macOS Big Sur, a standard user can configure only directly attached or local network printers from the Print dialog. Also, if a printer doesn’t support AirPrint, the appropriate drivers must be installed before the standard user can configure the printer.

Question 5

How does sleep mode affect users’ access to shared print services?

Answer 5

Users can’t access shared print services on a Mac in sleep mode. But you can configure your Mac to not sleep, or to wake from sleep when other users access those resources.

Question 6

How do you create a PDF document?

Answer 6

You can create a PDF from any Print dialog by clicking the PDF button, then choosing an option in the pop-up menu to save or send the new PDF file.

Question 7

What are the three ways you can access a printer queue app?

Answer 7

If a printer queue is open, you can click its icon in the Dock. If the printer queue disappears from the Dock before you can click it, you can open the Printers & Scanners preferences, select the queue on the left, and click Open Printer Queue. You can also manually open a printer queue from the Finder by navigating to ~/Library/Printers and double-clicking a printer.

Question 8

What’s a potential quick fix if it appears that a configured printer has an issue?

Answer 8

You can quickly resolve a printing issue by resetting the printing system by Control-clicking in the printer list and choosing “Reset printing system.”