Mac MDM Printer Deployment Script

printer-deploy.sh

#!/bin/zsh

# Printer installation script for use with MDM
displayName="" # Spaces OK
printerName=$(sed 's/ /_/g' <<< "$displayName") # NO SPACES, change to underscores
printerModel=""
printerAddr=""
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 [[ "$opts" == '' ]]; then
    /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "$printerName" -D "$displayName" -v "lpd://$printerAddr" -m "$printerModel" -P "$PPDfile" -L "$officeLoc" -o printer-is-shared=false -E
else
    /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p "$printerName" -D "$displayName" -v "lpd://$printerAddr" -m "$printerModel" -P "$PPDfile" -L "$officeLoc" "$opts" -o printer-is-shared=false -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/