Network Printing at St. Olaf
Welcome to the network printing web page. St. Olaf provides over 200 networked printers for use by faculty, staff and students.
Printer Names
Each printer has a label on it which identifies the printer. Departmental printers begin with 'dept-' followed by a location. The primary printer in a department or office is named after the office (e.g. 'dept-physics' is the departmental printer in the Physics office). Additional printers within the department are named with a room number (e.g. dept-sc130 is the printer in Science Center 130).
Public printers are named after their location (e.g. 'rml115' is the printer in RML115, 'larson' is the printer in Larson hall). Please be aware that St. Olaf tracks the use of public printers and will charge for excessive use.
Setting up Network Printers in Windows
To setup a printer on a Windows computer:
- Detailed instructions for setting up a network printer in Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
- Detailed instructions for setting up a network printer in Windows Vista.
If you already have the Novell iPrint client installed, you can click on one of the links below.
- Set up a departmental printer on your Windows computer
- Set up a public printer on your Windows computer
Note: You must use Internet Explorer version 5.5+SP2 (or later) or Firefox 1.5 (or later) to install printers on Windows computers.
Setting up Network Printers on a Macintosh
Mac OS X versions 10.3 and higher:
Mac OS X versions 10.0 through 10.2:
For Mac OS X versions 10.0 through 10.2, follow the instructions below. Mac OS X 10.3 and higher can also use these as an alternate (and more complicated) method:
- Setup a departmental printer on your Macintosh computer
- Setup a public printer on your Macintosh computer
More Information About Printing
- The St. Olaf Public Laser Printer Policy
- What if the laser printer is out of paper?
- How can I conserve paper when using the network laser printers?
- How do I get double-sided (duplexed) printing?
- Troubleshooting network printing (used primarily by IIT staff, but feel free to try it if you feel comfortable handling computer issues)
Return Visitor?
If you are already familiar with the network printers and the process of installing iPrint on the PC or Mac, here are the quick links to the printer installers:
- Set
up a departmental printer on your computer
- Set
up a public printer on your computer
- Setting up printing on an older Mac: using Mac OS X 10.0-10.2
- Setting up printing on Windows Vista

