Error when adding printer to Apple laptop - Advanced screen - Windows print queue

To add a Windows print queue to an Apple laptop, you need to get to the advanced screen.  Some users have the all the fields (TYPE, DEVICE, etc) grayed out, and you can not do anything:

To fix this, must "Reset Printing System"

Go back to the Printers & Scanners screen

Highlight the any printer on the left pane and right click – (or hold down Control key and click)

Choose Reset Printing System.....

This will erase all Printers, but will be able to add printers.

August 22:
Can also fix this by deleting ONE printer, and rebooting laptop.


Apple OS Bug

Default copy settings - Ricoh Aficio MP 301 spf

For Ricoh Aficio MP 301 copier, want to modify the settings on the copy screen:

1. Specify the particular setting as well as any other settings you require on the initial screen.
2. On the control panel, press the [Program] key.
3. Press [Program as Defaults] on the touch screen.
4. When the screen changes, press the [Program] button.
5. Finally, press [Yes] to complete the programming.

Must login as administrator to make these changes.

From http://www.ricoh-usa.com/support/knowledge_base.aspx?utm_id=10

To supress output from batch file

Want to eliminate output/error messages from .bat file:


Direct STDOUT to null. Errors will still be displayed. As an example, run dir badfile.txt >nul and you will still see “File not found” displayed. That’s because errors are written to STDERR

To redirect STDERR to nul as well, try this:
dir badfile.txt > nul 2>&1

Of course you may want to see the errors. So a better tack to take could be to write to a log file
dir badfile.txt >log.txt 2>&1



From  http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-xp/how-to-supress-prompts-responses-from-commands-in-batch-files/