14.3. Managing Printouts After you've used the Print command, you can either sit there until the paper emerges from the printer, or you can manage the printouts-in-waiting. That option is attractive primarily to people who do a lot of printing, have connections to a lot of printers, or share printers with many other people. Start by opening Printer Setup Utility. In the list of printers, the Status column shows you which printers are busy. Double-click a printer's name to see something like Figure 14-4: the printouts that will soon be sliding out of your printer appear in a tidy list. Here are some of the ways in which you can control these waiting printouts, which Apple collectively calls the print queue : -
Delete them . By clicking an icon, or c-clicking several and then clicking the Delete toolbar button, you remove items from the list of waiting printouts. Now they don't print. -
Pause them . By highlighting a printout and then clicking the Hold button, you pause that printout. It doesn't print out until you highlight it again and click the Resume button. This pausing business could be useful when, for example, you need time to check or refill the printer, or when you're just about to print your resignation as your boss drops by to offer you a promotion.
Tip: If you pause one printout, the others lined up behind it continue to print.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION
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Halt them all . You can stop all printouts from a printer by clicking Stop Jobs. (They resume when you click the button again, which now says Start Jobs.)
Note: You can neither rearrange printouts by dragging them up or down in the queue list. But remember that you can resequence the printing order by choosing the Scheduler option described on Section 14.2.2; you can also drag waiting printouts between these lists, shifting them from one printer to another.
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