INSTALL PRINTOMAT ON MAC

The "Printomat" printers are only accessible to Nordita staff

If you are a visitor to Nordita, you can print on one of our Local printers.
Please follow these instructions to install local printers on your computer
To be able to use the Printomat service from a macOS computer you need to go through a few steps:

  1. You first need to activate your printomat account and printomat card at the web site providing the printomat software.

  2. Then download and install an installation script to install the printomat mac driver on your computer.

Now you should be able to print documents on any printomat.

The printomat service only works if your computer is connected to a Stockholm University network.

At Nordita this means that your computer needs to be connected either:

  • over a wired network connection;
    there are network cables at every office desk at Nordita,

or

  • over a wireless network together with VPN

System requirements: Mac OS 10.15 and later.

Original instructions

Downloadable files:


1. Activate your printomat account and printomat card

2. Install the Printomat Driver "uniFLOW SmartClient"

  • The file, most likely called "Printomat Mac.iso" or something similar, will have been downloaded to your Downloads folder, unless you chose some other localtion.
  • Double-click the file to mount the ISO disk with the installation script.

  • If nothing appears to happen, open a Finder window and check in the "Locations" section in the left-hand side panel. There you should find the mounted disk, now called "SmartClientMac". (This is quite confusing, you would usually expect the mounted disk to open automatically in a new Finder window.)

  • Double-click the installer package to start the installation process.
  • Follow the instructions until the installation completes.

  • To check that the printomat driver has been registered, open the System Settings and go to the "Printers and Scanners" section. A printer called "Secure Print" should be listed among your installer printers. This is the printomat. Consider making the Secure Print your default printer.

3. Print on the Printomat

The UniFLOW printomat system is a bit peculiar in that an app has to run in the background for printing to work.

You can find the app in the Applications folder, called "UniFLOW SmartClient.app". As usual, double-click the icon to start the app.

When the app is running there is an icon in the Control Center (list of icons usualy at the top right of the screen).

If you submit a print job and it does not appear in the printomat, start by checking for the SmartClient icon in the Control center, and if it is not there, start the app again.

When you print a document you should select the printer "SecurePrint" in the list of printers.

After submitting the document, go to a printomat and use your printomat card to login. Then select the "Secure Print" button to access the list of submitted print jobs.

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