Cannot Add or Delete any Printers using Big Sur on MacBook Pro
Trying to help someone using macOS Big Sur 11.7.10 on a MacBook pro 15" Mid 2014.
She cannot add or delete any printer, (there are several in the que of different manufactuers), I get a printool pop up box asking for "_ipadmin" username and password. I have tried the computer admin name/password without success. When I cancel the PopUp the add or delete process fails. When I tried to Reset the printer system by right clicking one of the printers that option is on the menu but grayed out and unavailable.
I tried to using the instructions to add the user to the Admin group as follows
- Click the Directory Editor tab.
- Open the Viewing drop-down menu and select Groups.
- In the search box, type print.
- From the results, select Print Administrators.
- Click the Lock icon next to Not authenticated (which is located under the Directory Editor tab) to unlock the section. Enter your Mac user name and password.
- Select GroupMembership. Click the (+) Add button next to the GroupMembership line. You won’t see it if you did not unlock this section.
- Enter the user name that keeps seeing this printtool pop-up message. In the text area underneath the list, replace “new_value” (which is already selected) with the user name, like stacey (in our screenshot, the user name is macReports.com).
- Click Save, then quit Directory Utility.
- Restart your Mac.
Here is what it is supposed to look like
But on this computer there is no "Print Administrator" category listed only "Print Operator" and "Print Services"
so I am at a loss as how to proceed. Can the Print Admin category be added manually (and if so what info is needed?) or is it no longer used in Big Sur? I could use some help I am not very familiar with this OS.
Any suggestions ?
Earlier Mac models