Details of mac printing

Mac's print with their own special network protocol, called appletalk. Appletalk works over ethernet, but is not TCP/IP (which most other things talk).

From unix (say the host kali) you can use the linux appletalk interface to list what is visible on the network. Lets say you wanted to look for anything with resources in its chooser name.

[root@kali /tmp]# nbplkup = | grep -i resources
Resources Manager HP4M+:SNMP Agent                         65281.132:8
Resources Manager HP4M+:LaserWriter                        65281.132:157
Resources Manager HP4M+:LaserJet 4 Plus                    65281.132:158

This is broken up into 3 parts, the first part is the chooser name, in this case Resources Manager HP4M+, then there is the service name (SNMP is network monitoring, LaserWriter is the postscript interface, LaserJet 4 Plus is the raw printer interface). The last part is the numeric values of the printer information.

Configuring printers

To change the chooser name of a printer, one needs to install the driver from the CD that came with the printer (or download it off the web site) and there is usually a program that allows you to connect to the printer and change its name and other details.

Yes, you are going to have to experiment yourself. :-/