Mac auto installation files fail to install printers

There are several reasons why the auto installers might fail after you create the automated package installer (as detailed in the Pharos TechNote "Automatic Popup and Printer Queue Configuration for Mac OS X"):

1. The PPD files have been incorrectly named in the configuration.plist file. Make sure the name matches the PPD name.

2. The configuration.plist file used to configure the Automatic Installer has spaces or special characters. Remove any Queue names that may have spaces, & symbols or special characters

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
   <plist version="1.0">
   <dict>
   <key>Files</key>
   <array>
   <dict>
   <key>Name</key>
   <string>com.pharos.popup.plist</string>
   <key>Overwrite</key>
   <true/>
   <key>Target</key>
   <string>/Library/Preferences/com.pharos.popup.plist</string>
   </dict>
   </array>
   <key>Printers</key>
   <array>
   <dict>
   <key>Name</key>
   <string>Laser_Hallway</string>
   <key>PPD</key>
   <string>Lexmark Optra S</string>
   <key>URI</key>
   <string>popup://192.168.2.25/Queue1</string>
   </dict>