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Using Backgroung Printing

Note

When the printer software is first installed, background printing is off. Once you have turned background printing on through the Chooser, it remains on until you use the Chooser to turn it off again.

Sometimes, depending on the system environment, printing will fail to start when background printing is enabled. If this hap- pens, disable background printing and print your document us- ing foreground printing.

Using the Queue Monitor

Background printing is controlled through the Queue Monitor. Using the Queue Monitor, you can view the status of print jobs, pause and resume printing, rear- range the order of print jobs in the queue, and cancel print jobs.

The Queue Monitor only appears when background printing is on. When back- ground printing is on, and you choose Print to start printing a document, the Queue Monitor is automatically launched. The print job is quickly “spooled” (tem- porarily saved to your hard disk), and then the Queue Monitor takes over the job of feeding the spooled print job to the printer. Once the Queue Monitor has taken over printing in the background, you can start using your Macintosh for other tasks (including printing more documents, if you want).

To bring the Queue Monitor window to the foreground so that you can check the status of print jobs, select Queue Monitor from the application menu at the upper right corner of your screen (at the far right edge of the menu bar).

When the Queue Monitor window is displayed, selecting Close from the File menu hides the window.

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