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Create Printer Pools - Mac Tips Daily! #366

Submitted by jcost on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 10:50.

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Do you have multiple users and shared printers connected to your Mac? Perhaps you are like me and have a laser printer and also a color inkjet connected. This is useful, but If someone in your house or office is trying to print a large document, you might not want to wait for that to finish. The solution is to create a Printer Pool, which will simply print to the first available printer.

How to do it:

1. 'System Preferences -> Print & Fax'

2. Select the printers you want to use by holding down 'Command' and 'Clicking' on them. READ MORE »


Mac Tips Daily! # 209 - Change Printer Names

Submitted by jcost on Tue, 10/24/2006 - 01:50.

Do you have multiple printers connected to your Mac? Are you tired of people printing to your color printer, when there is a perfectly good B&W laser printer around? Well, if you give the printers a more descriptive name, maybe they will be able to choose the correct printer, without having to remember which name and model number to use.

Open 'System Preferences'
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