Technical information

Select a new printer using the Desktop Printer Utility

If you don’t have a desktop printer icon for the printer you want to use, you

can select the printer using the Desktop Printer Utility. The Desktop Printer

Utility then creates a desktop printer icon for the printer that you select.

For more information on using the Desktop Printer Utility to select a printer,

see “Using the Desktop Printer Utility” in Chapter 2.

Select a new printer from the Printer menu (the printer icon in the

menu bar) or the Control Strip

A printer icon is created next to the Help menu when you install the

LaserWriter software. Only printers that have desktop icons associated with

them are listed in the Printer menu. Selecting a printer from this menu makes

that printer the default printer.

Note: Use Custom Install to install the Printer menu.

If the Control Strip was installed when you installed the LaserWriter software,

a Printer menu appears in the Control Strip. Selecting a printer from this

menu makes that printer the default printer.

Working with desktop printer icons

To create a desktop printer, select the printer using the Chooser. After you

click Create, the icon appears on your desktop. See “Select a New Printer

Using the Chooser” under “Switching Between Printers,” the previous section

in this chapter.

You can also do the following with desktop printer icons:

Throw away the icon.

Drag the icon to the Trash. You can’t throw away a

desktop printer icon while the printer is printing a document.

Note: You must always have at least one printer icon on your startup disk.

If you throw away the last icon, it will immediately be created again on the

desktop folder.

Rename the icon.

Rename the icon as you would any other Finder icon.

Click the name to highlight it, then type the new name. This changes the

name of the icon, not the name of the printer.

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