Technical information

Drag the document you want to print to a desktop printer icon
Drag the icon of any document you want to print to the icon of the printer
you want to use. (See “Printing With a Desktop Printer,” earlier in this
chapter.)
Printing PostScript files as text
To print a PostScript file as text, hold down the Option key and drag the
document to the icon of the printer you want to use.
Select the printer using its desktop printer icon
If you already have a desktop printer icon for the printer you want to use,
follow these steps to select the printer without immediately printing anything
on it:
1Click the icon of the desktop printer you want to use.
A Printing menu appears on the menu bar at the top of the screen.
2Choose the Set Default Printer command from the Printing menu.
Until you choose another printer, the Print command will send your
documents to this printer.
Shortcut: Select a desktop printer and press x-L to make that printer the
default printer.
Select a new printer using the Chooser
If you don’t have a desktop printer icon for the printer you want to use, you
can select the printer using the Chooser. The Chooser then creates a desktop
printer icon for the printer that you select.
For more information on using the Chooser to select a printer, see “Step 2:
Choosing the Printer” in Chapter 2.
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