Chapter 11. Printing

IN THIS CHAPTER:

78 Add a New Printer

79 Configure Printer Options from Any Application

80 Print to a PDF File

No home officeor real office, for that matteris complete without the ability to print your documents. It might be an electronic world, but nothing quite beats having a piece of paper in your hand that you can mark up with a red pen.

Mac OS X, with its strong pedigree in the printing and publishing industries, has an advanced printing architecture that allows every application in the system to share a unified printing setup and execution system. Every application you'll use on the Mac has Page Setup and Print commands in the File menu, and each application's command leads to the same dialog boxes and preview screensand each one takes its settings from the centralized printer queue, in which you can set up as many different printers as you like. Mac OS X supports printers hooked up directly to your computer with a USB connection; network printing using AppleTalk, IP, or Bonjour; and even Windows print queues. What's more, the printing system in Mac OS X can be used to send and receive faxes over your phone linejust as easily as printing documents.