Mac MDM Printer Deployment Script

printer-deploy.sh

#!/bin/zsh

# Printer installation script
displayName="" # Spaces OK
printerName=$(sed 's/ /_/g' <<< "$displayName") # NO SPACES, changes to underscores
printerModel=""
serverAddr=""
protocol="" # [ socket (HP Jetdirect) | ipp | lpd | smb ]
printerAddr="$protocol://$serverAddr/$printerName"
officeLoc=""

# opts is gathered from a computer with the printer installed using GUI and running ppdOptionsDiff.command script found in this blog post: https://www.brunerd.com/blog/2012/03/13/getting-and-setting-ppd-options-via-command-line-for-use-with-lpadmin-in-os-x/
opts=''

# PPD
PPDpath="/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources"
PPD=""
PPDfile="$PPDpath/$PPD"

# If opts variable is null, use command without it
if [[ "$opts" == '' ]]; then
    /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "$printerName" -D "$displayName" -v "$printerAddr" -m "$printerModel" -P "$PPDfile" -L "$officeLoc" -o printer-is-shared=false -o auth-info-required=username,password -E
else
    /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "$printerName" -D "$displayName" -v "$printerAddr" -m "$printerModel" -P "$PPDfile" -L "$officeLoc" "$opts" -o printer-is-shared=false -o auth-info-required=username,password -E
fi

exit 0

ppdOptionsDiff.command documentation:

https://www.brunerd.com/blog/2012/03/13/getting-and-setting-ppd-options-via-command-line-for-use-with-lpadmin-in-os-x/